Shalom Freedman Poems

Let the poem I write be the dream I am
And let the secret silence of my words
Be the mystery of my own inner music
And let what comes to me on the page
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I CANNOT WRITE ANY OTHER POEM

I cannot write any other poem
But the one you ask me to write-
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In the place where no one else is
I sit alone-
The sun shines on my notebook
I write these lines
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I WROTE MY POEMS TODAY

I wrote my poems today-
I should rest
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Sadness is a major theme of mine
I am sad a lot
I am not sure why -
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I am a man overwhelmed by my own feeling
Wherever I walk I see people I knew

On Yanovsky St. I think of Yosef ben-David
Who so much wanted to live
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WHEN A PERSON DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH HIMSELF

When a person does not know what to do with himself
When a person feels empty
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When a person does not know what to do with himself
When a person feels empty
When a person feels
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What do I know?
And who am I?
The real questions
I cannot answer
They are beyond me.
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A POEM IS NOT THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING

A poem is not the answer to everything-
Perhaps it is not the answer to anything
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