Shalom Freedman Poems

I WALK ON HAMELECH GEORGE ST. IN THE MORNING LIGHT


I walk on HaMelech George Street in the morning light-
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IS THERE A POEM FOR THE TIME /WHEN EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG?

Is there a poem for the time
When everything is going wrong?
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EVEN AN OLD MAN DOES NOT WISH TO READ

Even an Old Man does not wish to read
An Old Man’s Poetry-
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WAIT FOR THE POEM

Wait for the poem
Let it speak in you
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The poet’s answer is the poem
Even when Poetry is irrelevant-
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A man became addicted to writing poems
Even when he lost the sense
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I am tired of it all
I am tired of today
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All these games
I make with words and poems
Will play for a short time
And then go away as if they never were
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This grey pavement and this grey sky
Will be here
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