Helen Bar-Lev
Nationality: Israel
Email: hbarlev@netvision.net.il
Nationality: Israel
Email: hbarlev@netvision.net.il
Helen Bar-Lev
Helen Bar-Levwas born in New Yorkin 1942. www.helenbarlev.com Her poems and artwork have appeared in numerous online and print anthologies. Six Poetry Collections. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2013. Helen is Assistant to the President of Voices Israel group of poets in English www.voicesisrael.com and Senior Editor of Cyclamens and Swords Publishing, www.cyclamensandswords.com She lives inMetulla,Israel with her poet-partner Johnmichael Simon.
a setting sun in the west
feather clouds flame pink-gold
over a waveless sea
glasslike in its stillness
so blue it disappears
into its transparency
at the same instant
to the east
sitting on the tip of the mountain peak
a gossamer full moon
a globe of pale orange juice
peeks over the mountain
as though trying to decide if it’s time to rise
and you wish you were a creature
akin to the chameleon
whose eyes are independent
so that the left could see the sunset
the right could see the moon
and the brain would view both simultaneously
and your neck could stop this impossible craning
© Helen Bar-Lev