Shalom Freedman Poems

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11.
We Are Not Fourteen Billion Years Old

WE ARE NOT FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS OLD

We are not fourteen billion years old
We are not even two-hundred thousand
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12.
Let's Leave The 'Poems' Without Metaphors

LET’S LEAVE THE ‘POEMS’ WITHOUT METAPHORS

Let’s leave the ‘poems’ without metaphors
Bare and stark and original
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13.
Sadness Sadness Sadness

SADNESS SADNESS SADNESS

Sadness sadness sadness
It will never end
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I AM NOT THE POET’S POET BUT PERHAPS THE WOULD- BE- POETS WOULD – BE –POET

I am not the poet’s poet-
The one poets of name and fame admire-
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15.
I Cannot Say What Death Is

I CANNOT SAY WHAT DEATH IS

I cannot say what Death is
Or what it means
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16.
The Stars Do Not Know That They Are Stars

THE STARS DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE STARS

The stars do not know that they are stars
They do not know how violent they are-
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17.
I May Not Have Been A Very Good Poet

I MAY NOT HAVE BEEN A VERY GOOD POET

I may not have been a very good poet
Not even a good poet
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18.
A Poem Means More Than It Says

THE POEM MEANS MORE THAN IT SAYS

The poem means more than it says.
It hears within itself the sense of what a page can’t know-
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19.
I Try To Write My Own Nervousness Away

I hear my own silence
I try to write my nervousness away
I really do not know what to do anymore
Maybe I am at the end of my road
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20.
This Is A Poem For All The Mediocre Poets Like Myself

This is a poem for all the mediocre poets like myself
We thoughts our words would mean something
We thought our deepest feelings would touch other souls
We hoped our most wonderful imaginings
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