gershon hepner Poems

The hour of the soul, said Walt,
away from books, is based on themes
no poet worth his salt can fault.
The first is night, the source of dreams,
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“Hats off, gentlemen, a genius! ” Schumann
declared when hearing Chopin. Generosity
of spirit isn’t typically human,
more typical, by far of course, pomposity.
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FLORESTAN, EUSEBIUS AND MEISTER RARO

For Florestan the movements are most animated,
and for Eusebius cantabile and more expressive;
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Paradise for Delius wasn’t Florida,
where he was sent to manage orange groves
It was a pub that he imagined to be horrider
than Florida, whose only treasure troves
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Lisping cougars, just like aging panthers,
don’t always have smartest answers
when looking for young men whom they can seduce,
since often it’s too late to reproduce,
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Honi soit qui mal y pense
on Samson, though some think Saint-Saëns
makes more sense if you think of him
as being Palestinian, while the grim
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Warning! Do not poke about
the correspondence of your friends:
you’re surely better off without
the information that it sends.
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Oh how they miss the garlic, leeks,
and melons and cucumbers,
and onions that they’d fry and eat,
in quite enormous numbers––
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Funerals and weddings are about
the family you’re embarrassed to belong to;
as soon as arrive you’re filled with doubt,
and wish to leave, but know it would be wrong to.
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A taste as old as cold, cold water,
don’t put them in long drinks, but shorter,
martinis or a Bloody Mary.
They clear the head and make it airy,
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