gershon hepner Poems

Seduction cannot be secured by a caress,
because before the touch must be a glance
communicating feelings that confess
without intention and with nonchalance,
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Do gray women blush,
when they’re feeling blue
getting a great rush
for a man who’s new?
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Myra Hess, delightful dame,
recorded a vast repertoire,
gaining critically fame
in the great conservatoire,
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Sexy and indulgent about art,
escaping burdens of poetic paradox,
I try to run away from what is orthodox,
interpreting all beauty with a heart
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The poems that I write are mainly jesters
I pull out of my hat and write on spec
just like those mansions built by rich investors
whose fortune comes from what they build or wreck.
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Are you ambitious for ambition?
When it comes to greed,
lose your every inhibition
when you feel the need?
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Love has no ending, poets teach,
till Africa and China meet,
and other figures of their speech
proclaim the same enormous feat,
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The dreamer, Oscar said, is one
who needs the moon’s bright light to find
his way. He had a lot of fun
by proving this, but lost his mind
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Since eyes are nipples of the face,
I’ll send to yours erotic glances
and take with them romantic chances,
attempting slyly to unlace
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Asymmetrical above the knees
the hem looks sexier than when it’s straight.
What’s crooked has a tendency to please
the prowling tyger burning for a date.
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