Shalom Freedman Poems

And told that one is not good enough-
It is not good to be told that one's work
Is trite, boring, clichéd, simplistic-
It is not good to know that others cannot stand you
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So easy to understand
Everyone said
I'm a one- dimensional man-

Then I wrote prose
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THE POEM OF A HAPPY OLD MAN

The poem of a happy old man
I sit warming myself in the sun
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I WAIT FOR A BUS/ WHILE WAITING FOR A POEM


I wait for a bus
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WHY SHOULD GOD CARE FOR ME?

Why should God care for me?
I am one of the billions living now
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Nothing I dreamed came true-
The night did not answer me either-
I was alone with my lost thoughts
And my silent memories-
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WORN OUT AND WEARY EACH NIGHT

Worn out and weary each night
I come alive in the mornings
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But I will go to my grave
Wondering
Whether little I will survive-

The Holy teaching says
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I SEE SO MUCH BEAUTY

I see so much Beauty
I feel it so deeply
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