Shalom Freedman Poems

ONE SMALL AILMENT

One small ailment is enough to destroy a mood and spoil a life’s good feeling-
One irritation can kill the soul-
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TO WRITE A POEM/ IS TO HAVE HOPE

To write a poem
Is to have Hope,
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As I grow old I grow smaller
Smaller and smaller-.
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I learned my Literature as myself-
Kafka was my soul
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Where is the poem of Penitence
For the New Year?
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This poem should have been written long ago by someone else
They should have said what needs to be said
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The poem I wrote when Happiness returned to me
Was a quiet sober poem
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So many of the acute problems of this world
Will not be solved in my lifetime-
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I HAVE WRITTEN MY LIFE AWAY- MOST OF WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN IS ALREADY LOST

I have written my life away-
Most of what I have written is already lost-
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I AM LONELY IN MIND

I am lonely in mind
No one thinks as I do
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