gershon hepner Poems

So many femmes fatales the bible
describes, the first one Eve,
for she could not refute as libel
the story men believe.
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“There’s no miraculous escape–
Shechem’s synonymous with rape, ”
they told their father, in his camp
where he sat sweating, hands cold, damp,
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A sad wine lack complexity,
like empty skeletons exhumed,
or men without perplexity,
who never seem to be consumed
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The novel, mental basement, is defined
by differing rooms that make it democratic,
while poetry is always undermined
by autocratic thoughts within the attic,
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Blake thought with firm persuasion
that honest indignation
must be God’s voice, and cited
prophets who indicted
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Faith in uncertainty should trump
firm faith in certainty by those
who with reluctance do not dump
ideas the ancients still impose.
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In Combray, from the house of Marcel’s aunt,
two pathways led, to Swann and the Guermantes,
the former representing love, the latter
society accompanied by chatter
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If equal affection cannot be,
let the more loving one be me.
I’d say that to that stars, but wishes
like spoons they say jump over dishes,
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Beloved, do not let me be discouraged.
From sweetness of your lips let me be nourished,
while we together lie more close than rhymes
that drain into this poem like the dreams
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DO NOT LET ME BE DISCOURAGED


Beloved, do not let me be discouraged.
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