Paul Hartal Poems

Of course you already know this.
Just as the dictionary says, abstraction means
to summarize, to edit and simplify, to show
the essence of a material thing, or of an idea.
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Do you remember the fairy tale about
the levitating steed over the deserts of Arabia,
the story of the enchanted flying horse
in the One Thousand and One Nights?
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Don’t consign romance only to the young!
Love is for all. It is ageless and eternal.
The flame in the candle of desire burns
till the end of the wick, the fire of ardour
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Astrophysicists claim that about 13.8 billion years ago
our universe sprang into existence in an enormous
cosmic explosion. It was born out of nothing,
in a Big Bang, they say.
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The famous professor
Pummelled the table sonorously
With his fist:
“You must be crazy to believe
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Dark skin
Black hair
Dark eyes
White heart
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The Turtle loved animals.
He wrote his doctoral thesis
on a comparative analysis
of tortoise and canine brains.
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A pale sun glimmers
In the downbeat silver sky,
An orange-disc poem,
Swimming between flimsy clouds.
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Goddess Ganga’s Mother of Water,
the great Mekong River
flows through the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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