Paul Hartal Poems

Darkened by whirling giant black holes
The night winks with thousand shiny eyes:

Listen Darling
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After the great flood Noah’s ark landed
on Mount Ararat, says the Bible.

Nowadays, the snow-capped summit
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For Rachel Carson,1907-1968

In La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats writes about the sedge
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As the known widens
in the glass house of learning
the unknown deepens.
Memory is frail and brittle
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It was summer,1944.
The train stood at the railway station of Gyŏr,
halfway on the road
between Budapest and Vienna.
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I have no idea
Whether she is Tamil or Sinhalese.
The girl with her neatly combed hair
And native dress
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Her nickname was Lilya.
In the Great Patriotic War
When Hitler’s armies invaded the Soviet Union
She became a Soviet air ace,
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Once upon an August dreamy
I saw a flat plane very sphery
I could not imagine the simple
Deck ducks danced in a drizzle.
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On the border between Saxony and Bohemia,
the City of Chemnitz lies at the northern foothills
of the Ore Mountains in East Germany.

A Free Imperial City in the Middle Ages,
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Since a good scientist
Is always a skeptic
He doubts
That his mother
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