Diti Ronen

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Diti Ronen is a poet, a researcher of theatre and arts policy, and a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published four poetry books, in Hebrew, English and French. Her poems had been awarded three International literary awards and two national awards and they have been published in more than ten languages. Ronen is regularly invited to perform her poems in international poetry festivals and in literary events. Diti Ronen is a mother of two daughters and three sons, and she lives in the outskirts of Tel Aviv.)

The Best Poem Of Diti Ronen

At Home Or: Hide And Seek

1.

Before I came here
My land belonged to others
Who worked it with love.
Before they came here
Their land belonged to others
Who worked it with love.
Before my parents left their homeland
They lived in their own home
That they built with love.
Before you left your homeland
You lived in your own home
That you built with love.
Let's deny history. Imagine
We were not here before you
And you were not here before us.
Instead of playing catch
We'll play with words.
I live in a home that was built for others.
The people who lived in my home
Left to live in a home
That was built for others.
You live in a home that was built for others
The people who lived in your home
Left to live in a home
That was built for others.

2.

The only home that was built for me
Is settled now by people
Who speak my parent's language
My own mother's tongue
That I don't understand.
On central city streets
Of Paris, Madrid or Rome
I walk and recognize
The sign of my people
And hush.

3.

I take the sky
And pull it over my head
To have a home
But where do my feet go.

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