Paul Hartal Poems

How can we affirm our own existence?
Cogito ergo sum, Descartes said,
I think therefore I am.
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Darkened by whirling giant black holes
The night winks with thousand shiny eyes:

Listen Darling
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After the great flood Noah’s ark landed
on Mount Ararat, says the Bible.

Nowadays, the snow-capped summit
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For Rachel Carson,1907-1968

In La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats writes about the sedge
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People who love flowers
Cannot be bad
Says the proverb.
 
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The man, a Swiss German,
who bore the colorful and poetic name of
Paracelsus Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus
Bombastus von Hohenheim was born in 1493
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Here the May lilacs blossom in the garden
Their fragrance sprawls in the air of spring.

Yet my mind drifts on wings of a daydream
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The search
for the meaning of life
Is not unlike a cat
that chases its own tail
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“Surgical removal of the breasts before any sign
of cancer is one way to significantly lower the risk.”
Journal of Clinical Oncology, March 15,2005
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