David Levitas Poems

Not in this life shall nothing remain unavenged,
The dread, the judge comes at the last.
Not in Jerusalem shall we dwell for those beyond the seas
But in a place where books and customs reign,
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In the village or hamlet there lies another currency,
Beyond the ken of side-walk timetables,
The bars that vend the ciambetta
Among the tinkling glass of chandeliers and shiny smooth fluting;
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In spite of You, I spite the black shirted
Dragooned guards, who lap their obscenity
In metal rumps, striped or chequered flaps
That mask the lip, the current that tickles grass and fancies;
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Oh how I desrire to visit the home where lies my heart
I've never been there but felt it from the yearning it feels,
The excitement it rivits and the folly it leadingly seals.
In a thousand faces I see it, in a thousand eyes it reflects
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For a full four seasons I have let all weathers creep my consciousness
Rivet my being in the arms of care and secular provision
And carry forth my labours with indecision
Have felt the rock of a strained passion hood
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To take the kick of life's enhancing
That frees the body from its St. Vitus dance prancing
The insular self-consciousness overview
That stems the force from the insane few,
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Puffed up and blown down by the winds
That's my iota of life reveals
My drug confined and habits lot stretch, makes of life's immensity
But when things come back I'll know all has not been in vain
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Sometimes the environment comes first,
Where you'r placed, put, the domicile you inhabit
By choice or necessity, neighbours, staff, colleagues
They make for well-being, to examine your soul too much
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To be focused on one's grief
That is the sole remedy for pain;
The agency that sets the world spinning again
And sets the stars in their firmament.
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If misery can be pierced, does grief exude
The pent up torment of a heart shriven
Broken by the flight of circumstance, weakness and misguided will
For now, at home, means four walls and a lonely bed
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