Shalom Freedman Poems

Life is too complex for a single poem-
In the course of a single day
How many moods and contradictions?
How many problems and worries at once?
How many little joys and perceptions
Of so varied kinds?
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The poems are coming now
Like the waters of the flood
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Virtual Immortality
Already mine
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Wherever Greatness comes from
Take it as it is –
Try to forget that sometimes there is an evil soul behind it-
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A poem can be written while waiting for the world to go by
In silence
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THERE ARE POEMS EVERYWHERE

There are poems everywhere -
Open your eyes
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I HAVE LOST MY WAY

I have lost my way
I cannot discipline myself
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SOMEWHERE AT THE EDGE OF A POEM

Somewhere at the edge of a poem
Is another poem
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WHO KNOWS WHERE THE POEM BEGINS/

Who knows where the poem begins
And where the inner singing starts?
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SOMEWHERE EASILY ACCESSIBLE IN MY MEMORY

Somewhere easily accessible in my memory-
Faces of people I last saw sixty years ago-
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