Yiddish Poetry


Malka Heifetz Tussman
You ask,
"What is poetry?"

My most honest answer would be,
I don't know.
Nevertheless, I will say:
Poetry
Is hunger.
Poetry
Is thirst.
Poetry is
Pain.
Poetry is delight.
And poetry is
Nothing
At all
If you don't need the poem.

Yiddish document is coming soon.

Translated from the Yiddishby Kathryn Hellerstein (Copyright © 1996)

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