Shalom Freedman Poems

I GO FROM PAIN TO PAIN

I go from pain to pain
Confessing
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I wrote poems about writing poetry
Poems about being or trying to be a poet
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WHO WANTS WAR?

Who wants war?
Who wants more dead people?
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I WRITE A POEM AND THEN ANOTHER POEM AND THEN ANOTHER

I wrote a poem and then another poem and then another
Poem after poem after poem
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COURAGE IS HOPE'S LAST FRIEND

Courage is Hope's last friend
Against all the fear and failing that we know
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WHAT WE DO WITHOUT GOD?

What would we do without God?
Without God our world would empty of its mysterious connections
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COURAGE IN OLD AGE IS DIFFICULT

Courage in old age is difficult
But Courage is always difficult
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LONELY AS I AM


Lonely as I am
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SUDDENLY I WAS HAPPY

Suddenly I was happy
I looked back and knew
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Dickinson you love
Brief Blake you favor
Little Menashe
And Haiku you savor
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