Shalom Freedman Poems

POEM AFTER POEM

Poem after poem
I found life in my life-
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HOW LITTLE TIME

How little Time we know
How small a part of all the Time
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IS THERE NO HAPPINESS LEFT IN THE WORLD?

Is there no Happiness left in the world?
Is the only sound left for us words of complaint?
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NOTHING SADDENS LIKE DEATH

Nothing saddens like Death
A loss forever lost
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WHY DON’T THE STARS

Why don’t the stars
In all their enormous energy
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THE SADNESS OF UNCERTAINTY

The sadness of uncertainty
Troubles tomorrow-
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THERE ARE POEMS THAT DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE

There are poems that do not mean anything to anyone
There are people like that too
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IN MY OLD AGE I AM LEARNING HUMILITY


In my old age I am learning Humility
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FAR AWAY FROM LITERATURE

Far away from Literature
I long for it-
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I walk into the morning light,
And Joy slowly opens in me
At the Beauty of the world I see.
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