Shalom Freedman Poems

Even the people who love me
Tell me I am not good enough-

It is not good in old age
To have faults one should have corrected in childhood-
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The last will not be remembered
Nor the first-
Nothing and no one
Will be remembered
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THE MUSIC OF THE POEM

The Music of the poem
Is the poem-
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When a child is born
The world begins again-
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I CAN NEVER MAKE MY DREAMS SING

I can never make my dreams sing
The way the world of symbols should-
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That mean more than their own literalness?
Where are the wild metaphors that surprise?
Where are the lines of beauty that inspire?
Where is some mystery some irony some deep perception?
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ONCE THE OLD WERE THOSE WHO HAD LITTLE TIME LEFT

Once the Old were those who had little Time left,
Now we have too much Time
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THE WAR THAT IS NEVER OVER

This is a poem of the sadness and the pain
Of the war that is never over
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The Music Is The Longing And The Beauty Together

The music is the longing and the beauty together
It is the soul seeking beyond itself and loving where it is
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My mother gave me
The lesson of inner happiness
The joy of merely being alive
The pleasure of small everyday things-
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