Shalom Freedman Poems

THE POEM THAT COMES AFTER THE AFTERNOON NAP

The poem that comes after the afternoon nap
Wakes the world
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I WANTED TO GO TO THE PLACE/ WHERE THE HAPPY POEMS ARE

I wanted to go to the place
Where the Happy Poems are
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WHERE HAVE THE YEARS GONE?

Where have the years gone?
Nothing will remain.
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I WILL HAVE WRITTEN ONLY ONE

I wrote another poem today
The poem that I wrote yesterday
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BIRTHDAY POEM SIXTY- SEVEN YEARS

These years
This time
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OH TO BE YOUNG AGAIN

Oh to be young again
Oh to be free again
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SUGGESTED APOLOGY TO LOVED ONES TOWARD THE END

I am just another human being
Who has lived on this earth
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I WROTE TOO MANY POEMS

I wrote too many poems
I forgot too many
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THE UNIVERSE DOES NOT CARE FOR US

The Universe does not care for us
It does not even know that we exist
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How calm the Night the Silence writes-
How still the Peace the Silence sleeps-
How soft the Light the Silence breathes-
How deep the Dreams the Silence reads.
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