Shalom Freedman Poems

OLD AGE BRINGS MANY SORROWS

Old Age brings many sorrows
The illnesses and dying of friends
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WORDS AGAINST DEATH

All the immortals are moral:
Tubercular Kafka spared Treblinka
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THE POEM OF ALL THE PLACES I HAVE NEVER BEEN
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OUTSIDE AND INSIDE

The morning is so beautiful outside
But inside there is turmoil and anxiety
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HOW BLESSED ARE THOSE

How blessed are those
Who have even just one person
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LATE IN THE AFTERNOON

Late in the afternoon
Late in life
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POEMS ARE MADE FOR BEAUTIFUL THINGS

(Written for the Ilui Neshamah of Rabbi Gabriel and Rivka Holtzberg who were murdered in the Chabad House in Mumbai November 2008)
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THINGS FALL APART

Things fall apart
I fall apart too
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AMONG ALL THE LOVELY ANIMALS

Among all the lovely animals
That inhabit this sweet earth
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WE ARE ALL MOVING AWAY FROM EACH OTHER

We are all moving away from each other
Faster than we know
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