Paul Hartal Poems

They all tried.
They tried to free Euclid of every flaw.
At Bach’s time Girolamo Saccheri did
And Adrien-Marie Legendre later.
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747
oh
bilateral symmetry
elegant fuselage
lo
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Once, the Turtle invited the Rabbit for a cup of tea.
It was a cold day and sipping their hot beverage
at the fireplace they talked about a variety of things.
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The brushwork delights:
Firm outline of each figure,
graceful gestures, robes
flowing, scarves floating, charming
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Love is the source of
all wisdom; fountain of life,
root of all knowledge.
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Gravity attracts all mass-possessing bodies
towards each other. Scientists consider this
as one of the four fundamental forces of nature.
And they say that Electromagnetism,
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On a clear winter day you can see from Tokyo
The snow-capped volcanic cone of Mount Fuji.
Towering to a height of 3,776 meters on Honshu Island,
About 100 kilometers south-west from the capital,
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On the road between Cologne and Frankfurt
The SS bus with painted over windows made its way
Through the streets of picturesque Hadamar
Heading for the psychiatric hospital of the town.
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“Oh, I’m neither rude nor rigid”, he said.
“I’m rather like a cactus fruit, thorny outside
but sweet inside.”
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