Shalom Freedman Poems

I WAIT TO HEAR THE LINES COME


I wait to hear the lines come
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I AM SHAKY TODAY

I am shaky today-
Why I am not sure
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I BELONG TO A DREAM WHOSE TIME HAS PASSED

I belong to a Dream whose time has passed-
Even if I realize it in old age
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The night wind that calls me
Tells me I have no other dreams
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Why not to be young again?
And dream again?
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The only poem at the end of the universe
That will be heard is God’s Poem.
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I WALK IN THE QUIET PLACES

I walk in the quiet places
Where I can hear myself think-
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I SORT OF LOVE THIS LIFE AS A POET

I sort of love this life as a poet I have now-
I walk and hear lines come-
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A poem before I go out the door?
Unlikely, but who knows?
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OH THE POEMS AND THE POEMS AND THE POEMS

Oh the poems and the poems and the poems
Oh the love of Literature
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