gershon hepner Poems

Standing in a grove of greatest thoughts
is thought by some to be quite hideous,
but in a wilderness where thought aborts
grow horrors that are more insidious,
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Not too much intensity,
said Kay, on the occasion
of reading of ‘Crustacean
Island.’ The immensity
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The trouble with poets
is how do you know it’s
Deceased. Try the priest!
He’ll giving you a blessing,
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No wider that the rivers you
can cross, and often leaving you so high
and dry while you are wading through
its wadi, saying you rely
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Compromise and Resignation

Compromise and rueful resignation
are what love often is reduced to
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Withdrawn from grandeur and aggrandizement,
God initiated the tsimtsum
that kabbalists describe with puzzlement
but rarely causes poets to be dumb,
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In exile you may miss far more
the animosity of those you’ve left behind
than praises of the people who adore
you for your beauty and the brilliance of your mind.
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TOPLESS


In order to have insight, do not concentrate:
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Only if you do not think
can you become the thought
of those who try make you shrink,
and nix you into nought.
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Buffon declared the vulture
to have the lowest instinct, which he called voracity;
humans consider culture
their highest instinct, lowest when it lacks veracity.
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