http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/01/02/lying-in-wait-for-happiness-by-yehuda-amichai/ Thu, 24 May 2012 08:55:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/01/02/lying-in-wait-for-happiness-by-yehuda-amichai/#comment-36692 Doug Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:20:14 +0000 http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/01/02/lying-in-wait-for-happiness-by-yehuda-amichai/#comment-36692 I have heard only one other poem by Amichai, but it stopped my heart. Entitled 'The Diameter of the Bomb," it describes the effect of a terrorist bomb in few simple distance metrics. Szymborska's "The Terrorist, he watches" is a similar equally vivid poem. I found both of them too real and easy to understand and imagine. Both made me quickly close the book, as though my hands were about to ignite, and just walk away speachless in shock. I have heard only one other poem by Amichai, but it stopped my heart. Entitled ‘The Diameter of the Bomb,” it describes the effect of a terrorist bomb in few simple distance metrics. Szymborska’s “The Terrorist, he watches” is a similar equally vivid poem. I found both of them too real and easy to understand and imagine. Both made me quickly close the book, as though my hands were about to ignite, and just walk away speachless in shock.

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