The Truth & Sanity By Tali Cohen Shabtai

 

The Truth

By Tali Cohen Shabtai

You can always turn to 
death 
except for the dead themselves – 
 
that’s a purely rhetorical insight.
 
It’s always possible to turn to sleep 
and die in it 
in an arbitrary unit of time 
in a simulated 
death –
 
It's also an insight in a man's 
head. 
 
About that it is said
that/
sleep is a great thing. Death is better than it. Not being born at all is a miracle, of course.
 
From here, facing here or there 
death 
is static in its existence.
 
Arbitrary or 
eternal that exists out of time. 
 
That's how humans are!

Sanity

By Tali Cohen Shabtai

 

Why do I have 
to walk around with,
 in geometric jargon, 
shapeliness in my face?
 
Two ellipses
in the eye socket 
that delineate two rectangles 
of a wild 
plume of hair
of eyebrows
almost two 
in number
 
In the top of the face 
is a vertical nose 
that is equivalent 
to a horizontal line 
between the right ear 
and the left 
in a wide line 
it is placed 
in the middle 
of the 
face.
 
There are many bumps 
but most in the part
of the face
are flat
 
there is a single hill 
to the lips 
when I kiss myself 
a French kiss
 
Through the reflection of 
creation from the geometric
 jargon
 
I scribble 
myself 
again 
and spit blood

About The Author 

Tali Cohen Shabtai, is a poet, she was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She began writing poetry at the age of six. Her poems expresses spiritual and physical exile. She is studying her exile and freedom paradox, her cosmopolitan vision is very obvious in her writings. She lived many years in Oslo Norway and in the U.S.A. Tali has written three  bilingual poetry books:" Purple Diluted in a Black’s Thick", (bilingual 2007), "Protest" (bilingual 2012) and "Nine Years  From You" (bilingual 2018).

 

By 2021, her fourth book of poetry will be published which will also be published in Norway. Her literary works have been translated and published into many languages as well.