gershon hepner Poems

Only when the reader is engaged
is all the energy that is kinetic
released from poetry when it is paged
by poets who attempt to be aesthetic.
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His first job was as extra in
'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
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Irresistibly mendacious,
easy going and agreeable,
beware attorneys being gracious,
for their hours are all feeable.
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Refinement of a pot appears effete
if you don’t like irregularities.
Once baked inside a kiln the searing heat
preserves forever angularities
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In Yoshiwara courtesans
were influenced by Zen,
whose masters were their greatest fans,
and proved that they were men
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“Ogden, gnash your rhyming teeth! ”
the scholar of religion that’s comparative
declared, and gave me laurels, him a wreath,
ending gnostically this narrative.
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It’s a short, short time from May to November,
December to May, though, is shorter;
spring, summer and fall aren’t hard to remember,
but winter, and spring that’s so cruel in the quarter
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Reading letters written by
her sister, Nazneen learns that life
can be romantic, and will try
to play the role of cheating wife,
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Losing themselves as in slow movements
great performers must be lost
attempting to define the moment,
composers must become compost,
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His subject was fame;
he courted the famous
whose fame is their name,
proclaiming: Do name us.
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