Not An Evolution

Not An Evolution

Donizetti at the Tower -

Verdi's Inquisition -

Puccini and the battlement -

Offenbach was strange -

Opera has changed -

Stories without music -

Killing nuns and Nixon -

Sills and Baby Doe -

And anyone who likes the new

Is different from me -

11-29-13

 

The Mother

The eternal victim

Always justified

In each and any horror

Or atrocity,

She never felt remorse

And regretted nothing,

Except that she had children

Who persecuted her,

And all of whom she totally destroyed.

11-29-13

Musing

If I were in hell

I couldn't live there if I knew it.

If there were a heaven

I would relish and eschew it.

Following the circle of the sun -

A single planet -

Some wondering, some certain,

Some not caring what began it.

Dreaming in a sleep that's un-

Precarious at night,

In the morning waking – for a

Second, all is right.

11-28-13

 

Macho

Stein said, “Pussy,

Don't do me this way.”

She wept and cried, “Be kind.”

And Hemingway standing

Outside their house,

Heard them, disgusted, and fled.

11-28-13

If you like my poems, my name is Joseph Hart.  I have books on both Amazon and Kindle, most Kindle books are $1, all but one paper book is $10 or less.  One (very thick) is $12.50.  The books I like are "Endymion Awake", "Keats and the Sea", "On Sleep, &c", "Poems Published in Audience Magazine" and "Ten Chaps". These poems are all very mild and unlike what I write now, their only point is to be pleasant.  Most of the other books (not all) are cynical and abrasive.  To see all the books on Amazon, go to Joseph Hart Poetry.