Poems — Poetry Heritage

Luisa Morgantini

In Subino’s square you embraced me with an eagle’s expansive wings and I followed you up a path so steep it could only be compared

To love means chasing a feather till your shadow’s out of breath: take me with you

I’m all for a Jewish state stretching from Zimbabwe to the Islets of Capricorn.

the closest people are those I love to ridicule but never would

I thought I was carefree’s best man; the far horizon my close neighbour, so I thought

Like an egg hatching chicks your two hands, Mum, let go of mine.

if the rubble had a voice it would console a corpse under it

I’m unfamiliar with refugee camps. Is that the ultimate in giving up?

Hello! Beit Hanoun? I heard on the news

I no longer want peace or a nation that lives in two states.

Our love is the seed we scatter on fields of feeling

In prison he went on hunger-strike his guts alive in the hope of feeding tragedy