I visited God \Tali Cohen Shabtai
I visited
God
Today
A handful accompany me
No need
Of many
To carry a woman
To the marring-place
To marry
Death.
I will not be satisfieds
With this
Gesture
Of appriciation
Fot a woman
In her hour.
Now it is clear
How you waited,how
You waited
For him
And he did not come!
Sorry,
Woman
Sbout that
Deception.
Lovers \ Tali Cohen Shabtai
On seeing
The sooty cascade of your hair
Gleaming in the dew of daybreack, flash-
Es the dew captive,
Not the abundance.
And on touching
The ivory whiteness of your skin
What the shadow did not dim
With grief
How transparent! Forfend!
They will not long contain the revealed
When the mind refuses
To bear the night,with its eyes'
Conflagration
None will encipher the secret
In wonder.
At the sound
Of your speech as in song
They already forgave.
Those who knew me
And whose names I did not call
Are my lovers.
My cat\ Tali Cohen Shabtai
There is a
strange silence
Somebody
died on the sofa
Maybe it’s
not the one by me who died
When I
counted the number of the dead
In this
silence
She has
stolen the death, very fast
In the
breaks between
Inhalation
and exhalation
No number of
soldiers will
Worship the
death of a newborn
Of 4.9 kg
Who has been
to ashes
I have been
with her
One
year
Tali Cohen Shabtai, is a poet, she was born in Jerusalem,
Israel. She began writing poetry at the age of six, she had been an excellent
student of literature. She began her writings by publishing her impressions in
the school’s newspaper. Frst of all she published her poetry in a prestigious
literary magazine of Israel ‘Moznayim’ when she was fifteen years old.
Tali has written three poetry books: Purple Diluted in a
Black’s Thick, (bilingual 2007), Protest (bilingual 2012) and Nine Years Away
From You (2018).
Tali’s 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 some years in Oslo Norway and in the U.S.A. She is
very prominent as a poet with a special lyric, "she doesn’t give herself
easily, but subject to her own rules".
Tali studied at the "David Yellin College of
Education" for a bachelor's degree. She is a member of the Hebrew Writers
Association and the Israeli Writers Association in the state of Israel.
In 2014, Cohen Shabtai also participated in a Norwegian
documentary about poets' lives called "The Last Bohemian"- "Den
Siste Bohemien",and screened in the cinema in Scandinavia. By 2020, her
fourth book of poetry will be published which will also be published in Norway.
Her literary works have been translated into many languages as well.
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