Shalom Freedman Poems

I HAVE NOTHING TO WRITE

I have nothing to write,
Except that ‘I have nothing to write'-
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AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I TODAY DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WIITH MYSELF

After all these years
I today do not know what to do with myself-
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Who knows how a Depression ended today?
A good sleep?
Eating something substantial after the sleep?
Just getting out of one mode and into another?
The breaking of a heat wave?
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I know there are other kinds of Poetry-
I know for many a confession cannot be a poem-
But for me my confession is my poem
And my writing what I most intensely think and feel
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I AM NOT PROUD OF BEING A MEDIOCRITY

I am not proud of being a mediocrity-
But if I am
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I SIT AND WAIT/FOR NOTHING TO HAPPEN

I sit and wait
For nothing to happen,
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I have so much to be grateful for
I have lived seventy years-
I have a wife, family- children and grandchildren
Who I love -
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AS THE WORLD GOES ON WITHOUT ANY SPECIAL NEED OF MY SERVICES

As the world goes on without any special need for my services
I sit and write my little poems
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In the calm of the silence
I return to myself-
I am able to think
And thinking am able to be-
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I HAVE WRITTEN TOO MUCH

I have written too much -
I have published too much-
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