Shalom Freedman Poems

I AM TOO TIRED TO WRITE A GOOD POEM

I am too tired to write a good poem
I am too cold also
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Cryptic utterances make a foolish kind of poetry
At the other side of the rose is a flower whose name we do not know-
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I have written many poor poems
That may not be poems at all -
They are single in dimension
Prose
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There is no time
And one day there will be no more time-
But in the time to come
There may be too much time-
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THE DAY IS WASTED

The day is wasted
I did nothing in it-
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Silence is Madness
Write something
Anything
Whatever you can
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Alberta Conway is dead
My first girl friend
At the age of two
We held hands
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The post-modern poem is the poet's surprise-
It has no agenda but its own interpretation-
It reads the ‘expressive I' as an infinite longing of the soul
To know and be known-
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I COME BACK TO MYSELF SLOWLY


I come back to myself slowly
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I AM NOT WORTHY OF THE POEM I WOULD WRITE

I am not worthy of the poem I would write -
I do not have the Beauty or Goodness in me
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