gershon hepner Poems

Americans in Paris
rarely will embarrass
the Frenchies,
who, when they’re in Manhattan
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There’ll be a blue moon on the last day
of two-thousand-nine. The fast day
that preceded it, Asarah
B’Tevet acting as a thorough
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Some say: Give me a fishing rod
so when I start to wish
for food I needn’t pray to God:
I’ll catch myself a fish.
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The hour of the soul, said Walt,
away from books, is based on themes
no poet worth his salt can fault.
The first is night, the source of dreams,
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Elijah’s struggle against gods called Baal!
A story where the drama’s great:
the proof that God’s the greatest in this tale
provides Elijah with enormous weight.
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“Hats off, gentlemen, a genius! ” Schumann
declared when hearing Chopin. Generosity
of spirit isn’t typically human,
more typical, by far of course, pomposity.
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FLORESTAN, EUSEBIUS AND MEISTER RARO

For Florestan the movements are most animated,
and for Eusebius cantabile and more expressive;
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Though his favorite color was yellow,
Van Gogh cut off, not feeling mellow,
his right ear, that bled,
which made his face red,
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Lisping cougars, just like aging panthers,
don’t always have smartest answers
when looking for young men whom they can seduce,
since often it’s too late to reproduce,
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Paradise for Delius wasn’t Florida,
where he was sent to manage orange groves
It was a pub that he imagined to be horrider
than Florida, whose only treasure troves
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