gershon hepner Poems

Moral convictions, George W’s strong card,
intellectual superiority Obama’s,
can’t win against opponents who fight hard,
not jokers in a pack, but military hammers.
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Bruckner’s symphony, called the Romantic,
drives those who like brief works quite frantic,
but those who like long ones
are surely the wrong ones
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What Wordsworth terms “our ancient Dower, ”
describing heritage of Britain,
has faded like the fresher flower
of the USA. Unwritten
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Dipping when you’re being skinny
is an act that’s far less sinny
than lovers breaking solemn oaths
when they’re wearing all their clothes,
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Strike and shine and deepen, spread,
where others stand in silence speak,
what they cannot discover seek,
write what no one yet has read.
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A man who once lived in the Hebrides
made overtures to all celebrities.
One told him: “Go gentle, son.
Since you aren’t Mendelssohn,
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“Should we all be hyperopic? ”
now appears to be the topic
everybody is debating.
Saving money is frustrating
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“Swing that lady round and round, ”
in the square-dance is the sound
that you will hear, and helps you go
around while you both do-si-do,
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He held her tight beneath the tree
on which in summer there are plums,
and in the spring the blossom comes
to prove the world of winter free.
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In 1790 Mozart nearly got a great commission
to write an opera on Shakespeare’s “Tempest”.
Instead of this, when death became a major premonition,
he wrote his Requiem, and fugit tempused.
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