Shalom Freedman Poems

A POET LOSES HIS POWER FOR POETRY

A poet loses his power for poetry
He can put down words
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AN OLD MAN WAITS FOR A POEM TO COME

An old man waits for a poem to come
How many poems will come
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WHEN I DO NOT WRITE

When I do not write
I do not know who I am
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I sing to myself
The world is my dream
And I am happy with my own nonsense-
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WHAT IS IT JUST TO LIVE?

What is it just to live?
To not have to make
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WEAK- MINDED AS COLERIDGE

Weak- minded as Coleridge
In Irresolution I write
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A READER OF POETRY/ WHO WAS SO SAD


A reader of Poetry
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THERE WAS A POEM EVEN GOD COULD NOT UNDERSTAND

There was a poem even God could not understand
It was written by the sufferings of the innocent
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WHERE IS THE POEM I HAVE WAITED FOR ALL MY LIFE?

Where is the poem I have waited for all my life?
The one poem that would say to me,
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