Shalom Freedman Poems

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

What does it all mean?
What does any of it mean?
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SADNESS COMES AGAIN AND AGAIN

Sadness comes again and again
As Grief comes again and again
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LOOK

Look
The sky the trees
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What is this longing in me
This desire this sadness
This longing
For what?
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I begin every day with a poem
The poem is a prayer
I thank G-d for being awake and conscious again
I begin every day with a poem
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I sit and write a morning poem
Life is sometimes not what we want it to be-

Death is Death
And Dying too
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A WAR POEM SHOULD BE WRITTEN

A war poem should be written
By one who has been in the battle
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LITERATURE I LOVED

Literature I loved-
Reading gave new lives and new worlds-
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It is an indifferent cruel and stupid world-
The Ayatollahs preach genocide
And a hundred nations are hosted by them-
The U.N. Secretary General dignifies them by his presence
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I wrote a poem against the sadness of the night-
The night did not surrender easily-
Time has its ways of working on all of us-
I have seen many die too many die-
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