Shalom Freedman Poems

ATHESE WORDS TOO SAY WHAT LOVE WAS

These words too say what Love was-
Though I am long from that love and those feelings-
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I walk and my loneliness deep within me
I cannot sing this morning
Though the air be green
And the trees be light
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The morning light is outside
The morning sorrow within
Which will overcome today
I don't know
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The poems became metaphors-
They took off like meteors,
They turned into shimmering white almond tree beauty-
They danced-
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THE TIME OF POETRY HAS COME

The time of Poetry has come
I feel it within myself
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THIS IS A POEM WRITTEN TO ESCAPE DOING SOMETHING ELSE

This is a poem written to escape doing something else
Perhaps in a way all my poems have been written to escape doing something else
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Is there time for a poem
In a world of other sounds?
Is there time for a poem
When songs cannot be heard?
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HOW CAN ALL THE YEARS OF NOT BEING THERE

How can all the years of not being there
Be equaled by a last moment success?
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EVERY DAY HAS ITS OWN STORY

Every day has its own story
What will be today
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I WROTE NOTHING TODAY

I wrote nothing today
I did not do my work
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