Moshe Ganan

  

Moshe Ganan is now 76 years old and feels he is born every day anew. He was born in Budapest, came to Israel 1947 (through Germany, U.N.R.RA. camps, Cyprus). Fought in the Palmach. He studied for his B.A at the Hebrew University, English Department, for his M.A. in Hebrew Literature and German Literature (1996-2006). He has two children, a boy (30) and a girl, (25). He has written nine books and publishes poetry, short stories, critiques in many Hebrew Literary newspapers.

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Amino-acids

I yearn now
to return
start again,
create my DNA anew
amino acids
aims
weather forecasts
all from the days of creation
forming our lives
as new data

Candidate of rebirth
I ask
while waiting for a while
to meditate
to ascertain, balance
to grow vessels
for the future
tools to know

If I am meant
to find the way
the aim
bent, broken, or proud,
my face  radiating light
wrought in halo
reflecting achievement

To know beforehand
whether it will be worthwhile

  

A Short Lesson

To the Holy Father, Instructor:
Please put my name on the list
I wish to take only one course,
Namely; “What does it mean: Jesus walked on the water
And He did not sink.”
I am walking on the surface of the earth
And my feet sink incessantly into mud.
Snares are laid before my steps,
The earth floats, the ground slips away.
Or, alternately, not so: but it holds my soul
As if with magnetic powers, irresistible,
And I cannot move;
All around  - mire and mud, insulting
Contradictions, darkness, denials, blocked ways,
And He – the waters carried him,
Cared for him lovingly

I want to learn
Or perhaps by correspondence
I am ready to try