Paul Hartal Poems

Once a crowd of beautiful ladies descended
to the waterfront in Xian and Du Fu saw them.
It was the third day of the third month, the time
of the Lustration Festival. In those days
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The Sun
Shone high
Above.
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It was 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto
And Rabbi Kalonymos Shapiro posed a question:
Did the God of Israel abandon his people?
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I have no idea
Whether she is Tamil or Sinhalese.
The girl with her neatly combed hair
And native dress
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On the border between Saxony and Bohemia,
the City of Chemnitz lies at the northern foothills
of the Ore Mountains in East Germany.

A Free Imperial City in the Middle Ages,
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Her nickname was Lilya.
In the Great Patriotic War
When Hitler’s armies invaded the Soviet Union
She became a Soviet air ace,
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Once upon an August dreamy
I saw a flat plane very sphery
I could not imagine the simple
Deck ducks danced in a drizzle.
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Since a good scientist
Is always a skeptic
He doubts
That his mother
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It is not possible to step
Into the same river twice,
Said Heraclitus of Ephesus.
Since other and yet other waters
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The earl picked up an early peach
Then walked alone to the beach.
He sailed away in a little boat
Leaving behind a one line note.
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