Just finished creating this bouquet of roses and baby breath flowers, designed for my paper vase. As I was filming it, the poem came to me.
Paper vase with paper roses
And an empty space within
In my heart a ripple closes
Over all that should have been
Paper vase with paper roses
And the memory of a scent
On my lips a smile wrinkles
Every stem starts turning bent
Paper vase with paper roses
No thorns in this eternal bloom
Except my mind, for it composes
Petals decaying in the gloom
Poetry
In an era that is amazement and wonder on one hand, and destruction and hate on the other, and facing the threat of an even more horrific holocaust in our future, two poets present a piercing question: can we still love? And love means one another, human to human.
This book is the 'I believe' statement of the poet, author and artist Zeev Kachel, a man whose most closely-held values and aspirations have been put to the test in the course of WWI and WWII. It is also the 'I believe' statement of his daughter, USA Today bestselling author, poet and artist Uvi Poznansky, who compiled her own work alongside his, and translated his poems from Hebrew so they can become an inspiring force to you.
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