gershon hepner Poems

How God, in his perversity,
ties knots sometimes, unties when time
seems right to him, we learn from rhyme,
but in a university,
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BAROQUE OBAMA


If Obama is baroque,
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Words can be broken just like eggs
when they have carelessly been dropped, and when they’re scrambled
they fall like dancers with weak legs.
Before words have been put to use they should be sampled
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Standing in a grove of greatest thoughts
is thought by some to be quite hideous,
but in a wilderness where thought aborts
grow horrors that are more insidious,
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Not too much intensity,
said Kay, on the occasion
of reading of ‘Crustacean
Island.’ The immensity
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The trouble with poets
is how do you know it’s
Deceased. Try the priest!
He’ll giving you a blessing,
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No wider that the rivers you
can cross, and often leaving you so high
and dry while you are wading through
its wadi, saying you rely
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Compromise and Resignation

Compromise and rueful resignation
are what love often is reduced to
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Withdrawn from grandeur and aggrandizement,
God initiated the tsimtsum
that kabbalists describe with puzzlement
but rarely causes poets to be dumb,
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In exile you may miss far more
the animosity of those you’ve left behind
than praises of the people who adore
you for your beauty and the brilliance of your mind.
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