<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516957" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Was Away From The Poems</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was away from the Poems<br>I could not hear them within myself -<br>There were many sounds<br>Many different kinds of words<br>And speakers and ranters and shouters <br>And all kinds of false music also <br>And even beautiful music and prayer- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But there were no poems<br>I could hear no poems <br>And within myself suddenly there came such ‘longing’ <br>And such ‘anxiety’-<br>‘Where is the Poem? And where can I possibly be if there is none? <br>And how can I find it again? ’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all I needed I thought was some long long long silence<br>Some being alone and away <br>Some forever waiting to hear <br>Some listening to the true voice <br>And then somehow somehow the Poems would come again –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here here here it is now <br>The poem <br>Quiet and sure and happy and light and singing <br>As if it were the one music God wanted me to hear<br>And repeat always as if it truly were mine and yours<br> Dear imagined reader, <br>Alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=516957" data-title="I Was Away From The Poems de Shalom Freedman" data-description="I was away from the Poems I could not hear them within myself - There were many sounds Many different kinds of words And speakers and ranters and shouters And all kinds of false music also And even beautiful music and prayer- But there were no..."></div> </div> </div>

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