Shalom Freedman Poems

TOWARD THE END OF A FAST DAY I DREAM OF A POEM

Toward the end of a Fast day I dream of a poem
But hunger overrules everything
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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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And no sudden bleeding and breaking of bones
And no horrified screaming
And death in unbearable pain-
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IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD

In the virtual world
I somehow am real-
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FROM GALAXY TO GALAXY

From Galaxy to Galaxy
We will never go-
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All the world is a poem
On certain days-
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Nothing saddens
Nothing seems strange
A day is about to begin
A life to continue-
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