Gentle Fools

Gentle Fools

Some people see a gentle man

As foolish and a goat,

And laugh at every syllable

Of verse he ever wrote.

Though other people love him

(Only fools are mad),

He's especially ridiculous

To his mom and dad.

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My Poems

That such immortal poesy

Came from a brain of wood!

I worry what is better. Really

All of it is good.

Bland and native poesy -

Profundities of thought -

More clever than emotional -

And neither sold nor bought.

And when I'm dead, I think

These 80-something books

Will lie beneath the lime with me

Where no one ever looks.

My poems aren't immortal.

They're shallow, simple, mild,

Rather like a symphony

Written by a child.

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Surrender

You no longer care when bastards

Hurtle through red lights

So long as the car they total

Isn't yours.

Blacks and homosexuals

And immigrants have rights,

But not between these cold

And distant shores.

They're selling guns to children

And madmen at a rate

As though there were some issue

To debate.

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Camaraderie

Togetherness means death, decay.

Camaraderie.

Single sparrows fly away

High above the sea.

An absence of emotion means

An immortality,

Unable to appreciate

Human poetry.

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If you like my poems, I have books on Amazon, both paper and Kindle.  Most of the paper books are $10 or less, and most of the Kindles are $1.  You can get to them by going to Amazon, clicking Books on the drop-down, and typing Joseph Hart Poetry in the search bar.