Shalom Freedman Poems

I AM LONELY IN MIND

I am lonely in mind
No one thinks as I do
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There are many morning roads to happiness-
I walk down one of them now-
The sun brightens the flowerbed below
Scarlets and violets, yellows and blues.
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Is there any greater happiness
than seeing one’s own child happy
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I read unremembered poets-
Names little and less known -
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The real poetry always waits to be written-
While we are laboring inside
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I don’t want the poems to end
I don’t want to stop hearing my soul say
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How much longer will God give me?
How much more time to do the one thing
That makes me feel most alive?
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WHOSE WOODS THESE ARE ONLY GOD KNOWS


Whose woods these are only God knows
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No poem can say all we are inside
There is so much given to our eyes
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What the reader needs is words
So Beautiful
And so Surprising
That they bring Joy and Mystery
A sense of Freshness in all things.
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