Best Poems Written by Josef Dubinski

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Gulf

There’s a gulf
A divide
It’s as wide
As Mexico 
From the inside
Out to the borderlines

There’s a cause
Raisin d’être 
In your head
In the mess yeah
I’m buried in
A sea of broken dreams

There’s a river
And a canyon 
And I’m stranded
Cuz I’m standing
On the corner
Hands reaching out

Are you there?
Do you care?
It’s not your fault
 I’m standing here
People like me
Everywhere 

There’s a difference
A separation 
Widening
Across the nation 
Are you aware
Are you?

Copyright © Josef Dubinski | Year Posted 2026


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L’escalier to the Stars

L’escalier To the stars 
Let’s take the stairs marcher trop fort
Let’s ascend to the sky
Le ciel infinite n’ high

Merci Madame I’ll give it a try
My girl ma pomme in my eye 
Let’s carry on together
My amour my love my life

Let’s spend June sur la lune
Let’s sing chanter c’est tout
L’escalier to the stars
Le soleil shines on the moon, too

Copyright © Josef Dubinski | Year Posted 2026

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Ought 2 B

I saw it once as it was
And today as it is
But never as it ought to be

I knew her once as she was
And today as she is
Like I’ve never known her to be

So we were once as we were
And today I’m not too sure
If it’s true we ought to be

So here we are just for once
For today or maybe months
Perhaps we should wait and see

Copyright © Josef Dubinski | Year Posted 2026

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One Cell

From one cell
We all came to dwell
Related one way or another
To the chimpanzees
The worms and the trees
And the pigs we send to slaughter

Through survival needs
We grew some knees
And we crawled out of the water 
We went through some change
At times it was strange
But no stranger than any other 
Time

One truth we know we are
Between Mars and Venus
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing else 
That’s ever seen us
Its a fact we’d adapt
If something came to visit 
A one toothed man
Chewing on a peanut
The no eyed salamander
Living underneath us
It’s a fact we’d adapt
Survival of the fittest

From one cell
We all came to dwell 
Cousin sister brother
From one pond
The human race belonged
Back when the world was hotter

Through survival needs
We grew some knees
And we crawled out of the water 
We went through some change
At times it was strange
But no stranger than any other 
Time

One truth we know we are
Between Mars and Venus
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing else 
That’s ever seen us
Its a fact we’d adapt
If something came to visit 
A one toothed man
Chewing on a peanut
The no eyed salamander
Underneath Texas
It’s a fact we’d adapt
Survival of the fittest

Copyright © Josef Dubinski | Year Posted 2026

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Lonely Desperate Road

I’m on the desperate 
lonely road
It’s long and straight 
dark and cold
And the sun 
burns my eyes
Then the moon 
turns to coal
Is this the end?
No one knows 
how long you last
on the cold
Cold and desperate 
lonely road

Copyright © Josef Dubinski | Year Posted 2026


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Low Self Assessment

My eyebrows are caterpillars 
Sleeping on the orbital stump
There are worms in my nose
Tangled and heaped
My mouth is a horse
And a dry crow lives in my underpants
My ears are fledgling echo chambers 
Plugged with lit candles
A plum for a chin

Tiny little eye balls; ballettes 
Lidded down to a slivered onion
Sunken in dark lonely sockets
Breath of a billy goat’s death
And 6 black pebbles for teeth 
Thinning chicken skin cracking on my neck
Ants in my armpits with a hive of killer bees in my mind
Scared hair everywhere 
Lost little man
Shadowless 
Suffice it to say I avoid mirrors

Copyright © Josef Dubinski | Year Posted 2026

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