The post presents “Windmill of Yemin Moshe,” a poem by iconic Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai, about the famous windmill build by Sir Moses Montefiore outside of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. This poem was published in “Poems of Jerusalem,” translated by Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt.
Windmill of Yemin Moshe
This windmill never ground flour.
It ground holy air and Bialik’s
Birds of longing, it ground
Words and ground time, it ground
Rain and even shells
But it never ground flour.Now it’s discovered us,
And grinds our lives day by day
Making out of us the flour of peace
Making out of us the bread of peace
For the generation to come.