Shalom Freedman Poems

I HID NOTHING FROM MY POETRY

I hid nothing from my poetry-
I gave it all I had
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I wrote a poem I could not write-
And then when I tried to write it again
Could not write it again -
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There are days that the Silence need not hear itself-
It rests calmly where no one is
And waits wholly alone for nothing to disturb it-
It knows what it knows and it does not know anything
But it is calm as peace as rest after satisfying love-
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SHE SAYS EVEN GREATER THAN BEAUTY


She says,
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I AM AT HOME WITH KAFKA
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OH THE BEAUTY OF THE POEMS I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN

Oh the Beauty of the Poems I would have written
The poignancy the pain the perception-
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It is becoming too much-
One new problem after another
One focused on one
and supposedly solved it
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'Anger' is not always a poem-
It does not always bring us to the rage of literature,
Lear on the heath
Macbeth bereft -
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WE GROW OLD/ OUR FRIENDS GROW OLD

We grow old
Our friends grow old-
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WHERE ARE THE MOMENTS OF BEAUTY AND DEEPEST FEELING

Where are the moments of beauty and deepest feeling?
Of longing so intense it is its own meaning
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