The Poems Ended/Long Before I Stopped Writing Them Poem by Shalom Freedman

Great Poetry Defines Our Essential Being 'an overabundance... the mediocre and inane- is a poetry norm' few poets not even classical contemporary masters wrote only exquisite masterpieces remembered for exceptional rare writes countless poems languish unread a truth universal great poetry defines our essential being Inspired by the poem 'The Poems Ended/Long Before I Stopped Writing Them' by the poet Shalom Freedman. Dedicated to the poet Shalom Freedman.

an overabundance of the mediocre and inane- is a poetry norm, few poets not even classical contemporary masters wrote only exquisite masterpieces, remembered for exceptional rare writes countless poems languish unread " I need the writing of the poems too much Just as their no-readers need them not at all." a truth but poetry defines our essential being

true poetic pen takes birth only to write it does not know to stop writing