gershon hepner Poems

Rosenzweig asserted
that Revelation and Creation and Redemption are,
when they have been inverted
on God and Man and World, six-pointed like a Jewish star.
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When men are yung they are easily freudened
of marriage against which they're hardened, till hoydened,
and when they get older they're even more wary
of marriage, towards which their thoughts are contrary,
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Balancing exuberance with restraint,
I make attempts with my poetic talents
to use my words as draughtsmen might use paint,
attempting to achieve artistic balance
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‘I bring you peace with honor, ’ boasted Neville;
‘now go home and get a quiet sleep.’
Make sure, negotiating with the devil,
to have some sleep before you wake and weep,
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Politics: disparity
between truth and emphatic
observance of fanatic
vox populi vulgarity.
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Interplay between the canvas and the pigment
is greater than the one between the viewer and
the painting when he can’t abstract the figment
of imagination hard to understand
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On Jewish writers he has put,
with witches’ help, a hex,
and is himself no pussyfoot
when he discusses sex.
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Caught in an expressive cul-de-sac,
all imagery goes down the tube
iconoclastically, with lack
of space that curves when artists cube,
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Although thought must be clarified,
as Wittgenstein declared,
if logic appears rarified
the process is impaired.
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Capacity to disappoint
is one that’s very much enjoyed
by those determine to pinpoint
our failures with their Schadenfreude.
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