Shalom Freedman Poems

UGLY INNER POETIC ME

Ugly inner Poetic me
Wants Praises of Eternity
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I IN MY FOREVER GOING ON


I in my forever going on hear my own voice again and again
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THE POEM IS THE LOVE OF LIFE

The poem is the love of life
In the gentle day and the quiet light
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THE POET BECOMES THE POETRY

After years of striving to write Poetry
The Poet becomes the Poetry
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IN THE MIDDLE

In the middle of the unending darkness that stretches on beyond forever
In the middle of the vast nowhere whose name has no shadow and no space
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Poetry has some advantages
Over other forms of Literature-

It is ordinarily smaller than most other kinds of writing
It can be read in a shorter time-
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BEYOND THE POEM

Beyond the poem
Beyond any and all words
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I am where nowhere is
And where Nothing will be-
Nothing I do will change anything
And no matter how many years I have left
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WITHOUT POETRY

Without Poetry
Life can still have meaning
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One can wait forever for the ideal poem
That will never come-

Or relent,

And write down the lines
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