gershon hepner Poems

REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT; REVISE, REVISE, REVISE
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When Auden switched from Anglican,
becoming Russian Orthodox,
he told a friend: 'Although I can
not understand a word, it rocks.'
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Nessun dorma
watching Norma
Audience snoring:
Wagner boring.
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Eternal punishment, meant Haines,
is not to know creation joy.
Buck Mulligan described the pains.
You do not need to be a goy
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What counts, said Joyce, is what's behind
the words and music of the score.
Ignore them both and you will find
their very essence, which is more
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I sometimes wonder how those who
don’t paint, compose or write,
can manage to evade the hue
and cry of those who flaunt the flight
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Life’s herbivores who live on herbs
resemble me: I live on verbs,
and each one is a greater treat
than any fish or fowl or meat.
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This is the color of my dreams,
Miró, pensées of peintre-poésie.
Marilyn has got a mind that teems
with dreams she lets the audience see.
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White and red and yellow
Rothko thought more mellow
than mountains that are grandiose,
or portraits. Figures can be gross
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Samson captured by the Philistines,
next to a peaceful mountainside by Balthus,
taken from the battles lines
that left Beirut where laws of Malthus
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