Paul Hartal Poems

Music mediates between Heaven and Earth.
It connects the spiritual realm with the mundane world.
But not all music is the same.
And Bartók's bounteous compositions are particularly unique,
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"I believe this pandemic
will be less savage soon", said the Octopus.

"What do you mean? ",   asked the Porcupine.
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It was a Wednesday,
the third day of August in 1492,
when Christopher Columbus set sail
from the Iberian port of Palos.
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It is raining cats and mammoths.
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The world has changed
Because you left it
I feel your presence
But where are you now?
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On a sunny day of Taurus
they cut her abdomen.
With stainless scalpels
the surgeons unlatched her uterus
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On a January day
It occurred to me
It is neither
A coincidence,
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The ghosts of history haunt the Balkans.
Ancient passions, unbending hatreds
turmoil the region.
Painful tragedies of the past
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