We celebrated the International Women's Week by a Women's
Peace Poetry Reading at the Writers' Association in Tel Aviv. It was a
great celebration of women's power and especially our intrinsic healing
and caring power for creating peace. I attach two of the poems I presented,
from the book"Women Creating A World Beyond War and Violence" which was
celebrated on this occasion:
TWO WOMEN PEACE POEMS
By Ada Aharoni
You Cannot Bomb Me Anymore
Listen, little big man,
you cannot bomb me
anymore
because I don't allow you
to bomb me anymore
nor to choke
nor rape me anymore,
for I have my own strength now
and my own creative
peace business now
With this woman's mind
this woman's body
this woman's heart -
we don't allow you
to bomb us anymore
for our sisters in Norway
have shown us the way
and now -
you cannot, cannot, cannot bomb us
anymore.
For it was
the grandmother
who ate the big bad wolf
and not the other way round --
so now
we will not allow you
to bomb us, bomb us,
ANYMORE.
Palm Curve
Cuddled in the heart of your hand,
soft hand, warm hand,
I do not feel the meaningless drops
of life drizzling,
do not hear its jackal-thunder
nor see its lynx-lightning
in the dark.
And if the world should burst tonight
in a giant mushroom flame,
I would not notice -
Snuggled in the nook
of your gentle palm
where I belong,
it seems I may exist
forever.
We are all alike -
gently dozing in the nook
and the noose
of borrowed nuclear time.
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