Shalom Freedman Poems

And wrote a poem that opened up the sky
And well beyond the worlds I couldn’t see
Dreams were deeper than my lonely mind
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WHERE WILL I GO TODAY? WHAT WILL I DO?

Where will I go today? What will I do?
I would like to set out again-
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THERE WAS A POEM ABOUT POETRY

There was a poem about poetry
Written by a poet whose name was hidden within the lines-
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Both sides need Peace-
We need it to survive-
You cannot destroy us
Or have us destroyed
Without yourselves being destroyed-
And we neither want to nor can destroy you-
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Sadness is the poem I write
Sometime every day
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HOW BEAUTIFUL THE NIGHT

How beautiful the night-
How deep its lights in the distance-
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My childhood world was once the only world
Years later when it exists only in my memory
It has become one of many worlds the Jewish people have known
In their long journey-
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For years I thought each word and sentence - sacred
If I had written it down it must be saved-
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The poems are the answer-
After all the years
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I don’t know where the past is gone
I only know most of my own life is over-
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