gershon hepner Poems

INNOCENCE


Let the supplanter look
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This tale describes how Israelites all grumbled
at God and Moses in the wilderness.
Although they all by biting snakes were humbled,
God cured them by a magical process
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When singers can’t depend on the security
of high notes they rely
on musicality and tone whose purity
all errors may belie.
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In a second cheetahs dash
a distance of so many yards
the animal can be as rash
as bad and bold blaspheming bards.
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My views, if you chart them,
both for and against,
in utramque partem,
are past-future tensed,
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As gifts to Solomon the Sheban Queen
brought lavish presents, Cushite gold
and precious stones and incense, clearly keen
to prove that she would not withhold
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Where yesterdays began
tomorrows will resume,
after the todays that ran
without much elbow room
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Beauty should be cause of doubt,
remaining as a paradox
within a fog that, with lights-out,
become its combination locks
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I, of rhyming fond, itch
to rhyme. It is a bondage
blank poets cannot match,
since they aren’t up to scratch.
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On the first day, God said: 'Let there be
some light! ' and till today it fills all our lives.
One hundred million years from now, then, He
decided that with butterflies and hives
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