Shalom Freedman Poems

There are more stars than poems-
More vast silent worlds
Than small verbal ones-
Masses and masses of mass and fire
Masses and masses of darkness and death-
And against this millions and billions of words and more little words -
...

I WAS LONELY OUTSIDE THE WORLD OF THE ANTHOLOGIZED POETS


I was lonely outside the world of the anthologized poets-
...

An Aphorism is sentence for the mind
A Poem sustenance for the soul-
...

I lost the poem in its complexity
There was too much of it-
And in too great disorder
The purity of its feeling lost
...

The song of the morning is a happy song-
God- The Light the Light the Light-
...

I AM TOO TIRED TO WRITE A GOOD POEM

I am too tired to write a good poem
I am too cold also
...

Cryptic utterances make a foolish kind of poetry
At the other side of the rose is a flower whose name we do not know-
...

I have written many poor poems
That may not be poems at all -
They are single in dimension
Prose
...

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-
...

THE DAY IS WASTED

The day is wasted
I did nothing in it-
...