Shalom Freedman Poems

I WALK ON HAMELECH GEORGE ST. IN THE MORNING LIGHT


I walk on HaMelech George Street in the morning light-
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IS THERE A POEM FOR THE TIME /WHEN EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG?

Is there a poem for the time
When everything is going wrong?
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MY POEMS TOO SIMPLE

My poems too simple
Sans symbol - metaphor
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Where I am nothing else is -
Loneliness is so sad and so painful
Especially in the middle of the night-
I want to write
But what difference does it make anymore?
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EVEN AN OLD MAN DOES NOT WISH TO READ

Even an Old Man does not wish to read
An Old Man’s Poetry-
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WAIT FOR THE POEM

Wait for the poem
Let it speak in you
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Where is the poem of the evening?
Has it been lost to my happiness?
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A man became addicted to writing poems
Even when he lost the sense
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This grey pavement and this grey sky
Will be here
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