Shalom Freedman Poems

I WRITE A FEW LINES

I write a few lines
Before I leave the house
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THE BEST IS TO FORGET

The best is to forget
To not know that you are old
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THE DAY COMES TO ITS QUIET END

The day comes to its quiet end
Little has been done
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ALL THE POEMS REMAIN WRITTEN WHERE THEY ONCE NEVER WERE

All the poems remain written where they once never were
The grass and the skies of Whitman form lines in the mind of Baudelaire
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A SMALL POEM

A small poem
A few lines
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A POEM IS SAD

A poem is sad
When it is not read
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In this small life of mine
So much Beauty and Goodness
Has been given me
That I could die now quietly
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I write and cannot write-
I dream and cannot dream-
I hope and cannot hope-
I am lost and more lost,
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We who love our children
Are most happy when those children
Have children of their own-
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AFTER THE END OF SHABBAT

After the end of Shabbat
The silence is broken
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