Shalom Freedman Poems

I LISTENED OVER AND OVER AGAIN/TO THE POEMS I LOVE

I listened over and over again
To the poems I love
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IF THERE WERE ONLY A POEM

If there were only a poem
That could redeem me
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HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND

He was a good friend
And a help to me-
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AND IF I WERE A POET

And if I were a poet
And wrote poems
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DARKNESS SURROUNDS

It is still night
Darkness surrounds
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I AM WITHOUT POETRY


I am without poetry
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There is so much Beauty in the world
There is much to see and enjoy and love
And so much is easily available to us now
How blessed we are
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ALL THE BEAUTY OF ALL THESE POEMS

All the Beauty of all these poems
Will never be known
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Not to think about the sick friends
Not to think about those my age
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And its own kind of sadness-
But sometimes
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