Shalom Freedman Poems

Why am I so happy today?
Because there is no war
And my son is alive
And so many other sons and fathers and husbands and brothers
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No one can explain why Beauty dies
Why those we love so much must leave this world
No one can help us understand
Why what we most care about
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One day the earth will open up
And take me also
As it has taken so many others I love

Dear Brother
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G-d has given me this blessing of this day
Everywhere I look I see Beauty
The innumerable shades of green
The morning light makes
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I NEED A POEM

I need a poem
I want a poem
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The Sadness and Beauty go together
Life does not end without pain
But this old man
Telling his same stories
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The poems written about Poetry
Seemed to be self- indulgent and self- serving,
The Poet worshipping what he does
And making himself Holy-
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I love God
For the Beauty of the world-
For the people I care for in my life-
For so much Blessing -
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After the Poetry has been lost
And the feeling of what Poetry is forgotten,
Hungry lonely empty Ambition writes lines
And tries to present them as Poetry,
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IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER

It does not matter that it does not matter
And it does matter if it matters
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