Shalom Freedman Poems

THE POEMS OF THE NIGHT

The poems of the night
Are written in the silence of darkness
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I LIVED AS A POET

I lived as a poet
I could not escape it
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The poems were lost long ago
Long before I was born
To seek them is to go beyond reason and mind
It is to go where only the lost hearts have been
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Waiting for the working week to begin
Impatience rules
The largest quasar cluster has been discovered
Four hundred billion light years across
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THE POEM IS THE METAPHOR

The poem is the metaphor
Hidden or not -
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THE POEM‘ THE POEM AND THE POEM AGAIN’

‘The poem the poem and the poem again’
Isn’t there any life without poetry?
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NOTHING I DO

Nothing I do,
No achievement
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The history poems have not been written
The poems after Milosz
The Wallace Stevens poems will never be written
I can’t come close
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There are those so talented
They inspire us-
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THE UNBEARABLE LOSS OF EACH YOUNG SOLDIER'S LIFE


The unbearable loss of each young soldier's life
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