I Listen To The Poems / Of The Well-Known Anthologized Others Poem by Shalom Freedman

I listen to the poems
Of the well- known anthologized others
I would belong among them
But probably never will-

I envy their community of being- there
I think of how my own lonely voice
Says more and less than they will ever know

I hear a few of them as inspiration
As beauty
As what poetry should be
And as what I doubt I have done
I write these lines easily and quietly

Hearing them
It is easier to find my own voice
And hearing my own voice

Is enough for me
To live in this world unknown.