gershon hepner Poems

Topless, Salome succeeds
in making John the Baptist headless
by going topless, shedding weeds
like melted sunburnt wings of Daedalus.
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The blossoms on the flowering cherry
will make the cruelest month more merry,
far fairer than an emerald,
although they are ephemeral.
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Allowing spaces to be blank
creates a hidden presence for
the inspiration you can draw
by drawing from the mind,
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When Henry met Annie Boleyn
He said, “ Let the revels begin! ”
He’d been a defender
of faith, but her gender
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She didn’t know he really cared,
until he took her by the hand,
and not long after they were paired
for ever, and the wedding band
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Will the afterlife be any less
exasperating to us than the one
we have? Unless they give us an address,
how will we find a place to have some fun
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When I am feeling somewhat lazier
than poets tend to be I string
together verses, a fantasia
that beckons like the fantom ring
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Believing we’re a bridge to Superman
we focus on our body, while our soul
lies stranded on the side where we began
to cross before we gave up on our goal.
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People who’re of every origin
come to LA, where they flow
haphazardly, not fitting in
too well with all the others though
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When rawness is attenuated
by means of self-control and nuance,
truth, being unexaggerated,
is trusted by the troubled truants
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