Michal in Poetry
- The Israeli poet Ra'hel Bluwstein sees a parallel between herself and Michal:
"Like you I am sad, O Michal ... and like you doomed to love a man whom I despise." (Poem "Michal" in her book Flowers of Perhaps.)
- "Michal"
- “And Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David
- And she despised him in her heart”
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- Michal, distant sister, time’s thread has not been severed,
- time’s thorns in your sad vineyard have not prevailed.
- Still in my ear I hear the tinkling of your gold anklet,
- the stripes in your silk garment have not paled.
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- Often I have seen you standing by your small window
- pride and tenderness mingling in your eyes.
- Like you I am sad, O Michal, distant sister, and like you doomed to
- love a man whom I despise.
- Or alternatively translated:
- "Michal"
- Though years divide, we’re sisters yet;
- Your vineyard stands though weeds invade;
- Still tinkle anklet, amulet;
- Your red silk garment does not fade.
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- By a small window still you stand,
- Proud but a death within your eyes.
- My sister, I can understand –
- Who also love whom I despise.
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- 1927, Israel
- Translated by Robert Friend
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