אורנים דוט קום – מגזין האינטרנט של מכללת אורנים

Teaching Icarus

Early morning, much too early

for this learning

I am trying to revive

a weary lesson:

Homophones –

pair of words, worlds apart.

Another case, I say, might be

see sea     or     sun son.

My words are trying to knock in vain

on the glazed panes of their minds

but O, the spring, the girls

the buds.

His gaze keeps gliding into space

immersed in youth, immune

to sense.

At last the cheerful bell rings

and off they go, each to

her fate, his fortune.

His fate it is to be the lesson

the spectacular, one-time event –

And so he falls.

too young, too bare,

too young to bear

this heavy title.  No one

can save him from it all.

Early next morning, much too early,

Today the lesson is

On mourning.

Zohar Sternberg