gershon hepner Poems

When I embrace you and surround
your presence with what my eyes know
is love inadequate, you glow,
but yet I have not found
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Love that heals
and soothes the soul,
resonant, repeals
the grief whose toll
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Lacking destinations for our dreams
we live in voids we try to patch
like garments with uneven seams,
and patterns that are hard to match,
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Lacking destinations for our dreams
we live in voids we try to patch
like garments with uneven seams,
and patterns that are hard to match,
...

There once was a stranger who came
to a red zone devoted to shame.
He learnt that to sojourn is
very erogenous
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Some have no enemies but are
intensely hated by their friends;
however high the friendship bar,
it rarely pays us dividends.
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Because you have a heart of dryness,
I feel I have to use my slyness
to make you humid when I am
around. Though you may try to dam
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Call girls, rent boys, hookers, hos,
are, as everybody knows,
what makes the world go round since BC,
as well as AD. New York, DC,
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I am not driving final sweetness to the grape,
for all of mine were gathered like wild oats
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In her rosy nakedness born blind,
in front of two round hillocks close behind,
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