gershon hepner Poems

There’s writing and there is orality.
With texts we reach into each others’ minds,
but with orality reality
can be as clear as windows without blinds
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the book of Psalms sings like an organ in the heart
with diapasons of pure poetry
the record of all feelings on and off the chart
played in the loft, the head, which is its major key.
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In hospitals in England they
are turning beds five times a day
to Mecca so that men can pray,
but will the nurses bring a bedpan
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The fall from the quotidian
affects us post meridiem;
if you’ve got thoughts, then say ’em
before high noon, in a.m.
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Some write words, some life, I’d rather,
combing both, let words illuminate
experiences that I gather
and on my pages aggregate,
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To find the conclusion it is necessary first
to see there’s something that you miss,
then when you feel the lack of it to have a thirst
for ends that tell you to dismiss.
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The marks made by the steps of feet,
unlike the record of a word
can’t be recorded on a sheet,
and only can be seen, not heard,
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For those who’re fit and seek survival
pursuing principals of Darwin,
a drink, or two, three, four or five ’ll
help those who’re standing round the bar win.
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Tiger won in sudden death
the US Open, in ’08.
Life, the Preacher said, is breath
that rapidly turns out of date,
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Sea horses’ eggs are brightest red.
A female hippocamp
while mating on the ocean bed
won’t leave them in the damp
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