gershon hepner Poems

Will life become a tunnel between clarities
that we perceive in youth when eyes are bright,
and just before we’re overtaken by disease
and aging that deprive us of our sight,
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Whether frontal, rear, or lateral,
damage will occur, collateral,
whenever just men fight their foes.
Today, they focus on the woes
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Pure poets think poetic thoughts,
and never write them down,
subjecting them to poet courts
to bury with a frown,
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Though chimps from homo sapiens parted
some five million years ago,
they have not become downhearted,
since, clearheaded, they all know,
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A world controlled by God, not fate,
impervious to contingencies,
with revelations while you wait,
and angels in the wings to please,
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As brightly colored as the lights of neon
that shine in Piccadilly and Times Square
are reefs of coral in the Caribbean
at which all scuba divers like to stare,
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For touring, tumescent
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“The world is infinite, please let me off, ”
say mystics paradoxically but Ein,
with suffix Stein, discovered the Ein Sof
beyond where space and time both intertwine.
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Ken Livingstone has got religion,
a private war against the pigeon.
Although these wildfowl love to coo,
Trafalgar Square’s their Waterloo;
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When efforts are redoubled
because you've lost your aim
you should feel very troubled,
for when you do the same
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