gershon hepner Poems

I love you intensely,
and always immensely
you make all my days
more pleasurable nightly,
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The universe has many years,
but Mozart in just thirty-five
enables everyone who hears
his music that a man alive
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With her finger in the air
she declared: “It’s isn’t fair
that I must now rely on this! ”
Though surely I’d have loved to kiss
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Requested on his death-bed to denounce
the Satan Voltaire said that this was not
the time for making foes. God gives discounts
in the inferno where it’s very hot
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Said Sandy Koufax: “I could pitch another game, ”
significantly adding then, “But why? ”
When you can see I’m writing just the same
as I have done before, please let me die.
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Wanton poets, pleasant wits,
musicians who can touch their strings
and as lovers be great hits,
are the men this poet sings,
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Connected to the place where we
have come from, we must all transcend
our roots, for no man is a tree.
Librarians with books to lend
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Without tranquilllity we recollect
the past until serenely we look for-
ward to a future that the blithe expect
will be far better than the days of yore,
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Did you come last night, or were you faking?
I could not really tell for I
was biased, so excited, aching
for all the love that you supply
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Act One is involution,
Act Two is great complexity;
Act Three finds no solution,
Act Four is all perplexity.
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