gershon hepner Poems

Like buildings that are built of rubble,
our personalities emerge
from causes we regard as trouble,
and have attempted to submerge,
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Spring, the month allegedly the cruelest,
makes some anticipate the joys of summer,
but hardly ever will impress the coolest
for whom the summer season is a bummer.
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The stories of the bible that you know are
not true tales of what really once occurred.
According to the holy book of Zohar,
when God told Man he grievously had erred
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If you wait long enough, all things come back to style,
the cowboy Gene Autry once said;
I’ll wait for you always because you beguile
the front and the back of my head.
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All they have to do is die;
Though their opponents say
their motive is to kill, they lie,
because the martyr way
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From crooked timbers Noah built an Ark,
but man’s must be extended, first to soar,
then to descend to plumb what’s deep and dark:
detritus undiscovered on the ocean floor.
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If this way doesn’t work, do it another way;
The Preacher said: “There’s nothing new beneath the sun.”
Love’s like music, you must improvise and play
as if the way you’re playing never had been done.
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Contrary to general belief
desire's not what stimulates arousal,
but vice versa, for it seems the chief
enticement to an urge that may be spousal-
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Impossible for men who live in it,
because God made it with perfection,
the world must hope that they’ve forgiven it
for His unnatural selection.
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You put the sugar in my bowl,
in yours I put my salt.
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