Shalom Freedman Poems

THERE IS NO POEM /AN OLD MAN CAN’T WRITE

There is no poem
An old man can’t write
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INTIMATIONS

Intimations of God
In I see
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NO ONE NEEDS A POET OF DESPAIR

No one needs a poet of Despair
There is too much already here-
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DESPAIR IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

Despair is not the end of the world
We go on in all our hopelessness
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I DID NOT WANT TO WRITE POEMS OF SADNESS

I did not want to write poems of sadness
But when sadness takes over one’s life?
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SADNESS IS TWILIGHT

Sadness is twilight
Sadness is old age
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A POEM IN THE QUIET

A poem in the quiet
After the pain-
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WHERE IS THE POEM TODAY?

Where is the poem today?
Why does it matter?
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THERE IS A POEM TODAY- I HEAR IT NOW BEGINNING

There is a poem today
I hear it now beginning -
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I BELONG TO THE PAST/ MY MIND IS AN OLD MIND

I belong to the past-
My mind is an old mind-
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