gershon hepner Poems

Moral convictions, George W’s strong card,
intellectual superiority Obama’s,
can’t win against opponents who fight hard,
not jokers in a pack, but military hammers.
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“There are a lot of things that I believe I’ll never say, ”
said Kant, “but I will never say what I do not believe.”
The questions raised by lonely men of faith don’t go away,
since few are satisfied by all the answers they receive.
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What Wordsworth terms “our ancient Dower, ”
describing heritage of Britain,
has faded like the fresher flower
of the USA. Unwritten
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Dipping when you’re being skinny
is an act that’s far less sinny
than lovers breaking solemn oaths
when they’re wearing all their clothes,
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Strike and shine and deepen, spread,
where others stand in silence speak,
what they cannot discover seek,
write what no one yet has read.
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A man who once lived in the Hebrides
made overtures to all celebrities.
One told him: “Go gentle, son.
Since you aren’t Mendelssohn,
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“Should we all be hyperopic? ”
now appears to be the topic
everybody is debating.
Saving money is frustrating
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In 1790 Mozart nearly got a great commission
to write an opera on Shakespeare’s “Tempest”.
Instead of this, when death became a major premonition,
he wrote his Requiem, and fugit tempused.
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They used to airbrush pubic hair
from photographs in 1930,
believing it was rude to stare
at it, regarding it as dirty.
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Bruckner’s symphony, called the Romantic,
drives those who like brief works quite frantic,
but those who like long ones
are surely the wrong ones
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