Paul Hartal Poems

Bees are dancing poets. Their scouts announce
the discovery of a new nectar source by performing
a dance on the honeycomb inside the hive.
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She looked at the canvas
with a perplexed countenance on her face.
"I'm sorry", she said,
"but I don't understand your painting."
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What was the first poem ever created?
Now either in rain or in snow,
the answer to this no record can show
and so we probably will never know.
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His contemporaries called him "stupor mundi",
the astonishment of the world. Indeed, Frederick II
of Hohenstaufen (1194-1250) was an uncommon monarch.
This Holy Roman Emperor, King of Sicily and Germany,
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One day the mailman brought me a letter
from California. It said that the Earth was flat.
What? Was I misled by my teachers? Was the idea
of a round earth nothing but goverment propaganda?
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Curious about the hidden meaning
of his dream, the crocodile consulted
his friend, a rhinoceros, who was also
a trained dream interpreter.
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