Wildcard

he was of that generation who
only knew peace as an idea, and yet  
felt it deeper than us ..

Amen, Paul.

How I do love this one! 💖

The honeybee part, especially!

Thanks, Jess.

Hey Ahavati........I’m very emotional right now........I wanted you to know I was here........this is very thought provoking ink......I have a lot going thru my heart right now........this added a few more thoughts.......great ink.......purple luv & hugs xo :)

Thank you, flowergirl. I appreciate your presence and thoughts very much, and have you in mine often.  

xo

Very thoughtful, emotional and well written Ahvanti. Captures the spirit of the day.

pax,
buddhakitty.

Thank you, BK. Much appreciated.

So very powerful. Thank you. R.

Thank you, Rachelle, very much appreciated.

One arrow, two targets. What a beautiful tribute to these men. You've honored them both in such a multi-dimensional way.

And I was amazed at how much your style of writing is naturally similar to Amichai's.  

The ending is sorrowfully haunting as is the painting - to occupy the blank canvas of the mind and be remembered is one thing; you've created stunning testaments that will stand the test of time and be remembered by more generations to come.

📝❤

Thank you so much for that; I truly appreciate you viewing it in such a light.  ❤

Fine painted words, for their soul`s that lie in shreds

Thank you, Slip.  Much appreciated :)

Don't want to detract, but I think there is a misprint in your writer's note about either his age or birth year - if was born in 1915 and died at 19 he would not have lived beyond 1935.

No; not author's note, the site I referenced. I've sent them a message, hopefully they'll correct it soon.  I'm pretty certain they meant 1925 and hit the one inadvertently ( it being located next to the 2 ). That would put him at 1944, a year before the holocaust ended.  Or, they may have his date of birth wrong.  
 
Interesting note:  When I painted and began posting this, there was nothing on David Berger except his letter in the Jewish Holocaust Archive.  It's where I discovered it, searching for ancestors from Latvia who were were presumably murdered during the holocaust.    
   
Now there seems to be so much on him; and for that I am eternally grateful not because I think I had anything to do with that; but, because the energy was put out in the Universe, and it was matched by others.  

Thank you for noticing.

I love the painting BTW, a caricature doubling as a landscape it appears to be (eg his hair the colour of trees bending on a windswept bank).

Thank you, Solomon. Much appreciated.

"peace come in remembrance..." those last two stanzas are absolutely beautiful and perfect, like chicken soup for the soul. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful verse.

Thank you, Wally. I love the Chicken Soup for the Soul reference. That is music to my ears.

I've started reading some of Amachais poems and memory is a strong theme for him, also lack of memory and the 'wildcard' of that.  I'm trying to observe those possible lost in translation terms, but I haven't noticed any yet.  I just read the whole radio play of his on poetry foundation, 'killing him' that was funny and interesting.  Theres a sense, with him, of lifes true transience. Very astute non-entry :)

I love his poetry because he could capture the essence of a memory, as though he'd carried it fresh, perhaps not forgetting  until he could relay it through poetry.  I garnered the strong essence of him desiring the past not be forgotten.  Have you?

Thank you, PR, your views are always welcome and interesting.  

Yeah, there's a certain rawness to the relayed memories as if they still smart like fresh wounds and the repetition in his poems enhances that, although that might be a product of  translation how they read.  Either way its a good effect :)

I agree and believe he adhered to the old adage "Forget not history. . ."

Choice and chance often hold hands in deft compassion.  When your gullible gamble is my due diligence, who wins the prize?  And yet, neither aspirant can get off the train.  This is a compelling thought, Ahavati.

Sincerely

cab

Thank you, cabcool.  It appears there are no clear winners in war, despite what the leaders of those armies say. Now it's the Palestinians who are paying the price.

As I picked up from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state briefing two weeks ago, when all the soldiers fail to show up for the battle, there is cancelled.