Poems About Yehuda Amichai by Top Critiquers

Every Sunday morning
I’d arrive at church ten minutes early before service
For a small rehearsal with the group
But I always wanted to play in the evening service
They had longer louder livelier set
And a bigger congregation

Yet somehow as I was beginning to question my faith
I was asked if I would be interested in being a youth pastor
But I knew deep down I was not a good example
My Monday through Saturday self was different than my Sunday self
I left that congregation a year or so later
Joined a church that was starting and...

( after Yehuda Amichai )    
     
"...I should like someone to remember
that there once lived a person named
David Berger."
-- David Berger (in his last letter, Vilna, 1941)  

There is peace beyond the grave
or material hardening of soil
after life acquiesces
  its due diligence to death—

or the space between parent
and prodigal child, returning—
ribcage splintered in repentance
  for a peaceful resolution

What is it, then, when a honey bee
surrenders its sting to survive— ...