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My Stars

My Stars On the day I was born, The unalterable stars altered. If I decided to sell lamps, It wouldn't get dark till the day I died....
National Review, 11/23/09 by Robert Mezey · More from publication
Henry Howard.(Poem)

Henry Howard He raised hell and broke windows, and even worse-- A rash, unruly, haughty aristocrat. If so, so what? He wrote the...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 11/01/09 by Mezey, Robert · More from publication
One of Those Moments

ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS Near sundown, on a day in early spring, A sudden radiance in a shadowed street. Soft, breathing...
National Review, 02/09/09 by Robert Mezey · More from publication
Ghazal to the One.(Poem)(Brief article)

Ghazal to the One Sun's bliss, leaf shadows, a honeyed breeze- The world as he would have it be for you, Your faithful, humble, and...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, 01/01/09 by Mezey, Robert · More from publication
Henry Howard

HENRY HOWARD HENRY HOWARD He raised hell and broke windows, and even worse-The worst sort of proud aristocrat. If so, so what? He wrote...
National Review, 11/03/08 by Robert Mezey · More from publication
The Funeral Home

THE FUNERAL HOME THE FUNERAL HOME In the environs of the funeral home The smell of death was absent. All there was Was flowers rioting,...
National Review, 07/14/08 by Robert Mezey · More from publication

You Are Not Other Men

YOU ARE NOT OTHER MEN YOU ARE NOT OTHER MEN They will not save you, those from whom you sought some help, no, nor the writings they left...
National Review, 03/10/08 by Robert Mezey · More from publication
A Last Word

A LAST WORD A LAST WORD We are coming to the end. Poems that resemble wild dogs tamed at great cost and made to tremble obediently at my...
National Review, 11/05/07 by Robert Mezey · More from publication
On His Brother

ON HIS BROTHER ON HIS BROTHER Having wandered amongst many peoples, sailed many seas, I have come at last, dear brother, to these sad...
National Review, 06/25/07 by Robert Mezey · More from publication
Lais Dedicates to Aphrodite the Tools of Her Trade

LAIS DEDICATES TO APHRODITE LAIS DEDICATES TO APHRODITE THE TOOLS OF HER TRADE Words cannot say what she was in her prime, This Lais, now a...
National Review, 02/12/07 by Robert Mezey · More from publication