gershon hepner Poems

Faith in uncertainty should trump
firm faith in certainty by those
who with reluctance do not dump
ideas the ancients still impose.
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In Combray, from the house of Marcel’s aunt,
two pathways led, to Swann and the Guermantes,
the former representing love, the latter
society accompanied by chatter
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If equal affection cannot be,
let the more loving one be me.
I’d say that to that stars, but wishes
like spoons they say jump over dishes,
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Beloved, do not let me be discouraged.
From sweetness of your lips let me be nourished,
while we together lie more close than rhymes
that drain into this poem like the dreams
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DO NOT LET ME BE DISCOURAGED


Beloved, do not let me be discouraged.
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If you kill off every demon
you may make yours angels die;
save them with your love and semen,
fruitful when you multiply.
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Follow women like a car
and you will not go wrong;
don't get too close to them, stay far
and keep the distance long
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Our lives are all translations made by God,
by age, injustice, sickness and by war,
of lives whose pagination may be odd,
but may match even numbers like fourscore.
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A house in which one knows each room
is not worth living in, a golden bowl.
Lives also must have gaps; assume
you understand the body, not the soul.
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Luscious, and in body lithe,
Salome takes off seven veils,
a ten whom Herod wants to tithe
before the headless Baptist wails.
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