<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517099" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Is There A Poem Of The Afternoon?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">IS THERE A POEM OF THE AFTERNOON? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is there a poem of the afternoon? <br>Sadness at so little having been done in the morning<br>I have spent a life escaping <br>And today too I escaped <br>Learning studying reading <br>Other worlds other people other minds <br>Far from practical problems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun is strong today and the summer come early <br>And the days will be long now with the clock changed<br>I have tried to focus on Poetry this year<br>But I have not really gone back to re-read the Poems of my life </div><div style="margin:10px 0">War threatens for a change<br>It may be that our city will be on fire and our neighborhood burn as never before<br>We pray somehow for a miracle of survival without war and destruction </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They hate us and they hate us and they hate us<br>One – fifth of mankind cannot bear two- tenths of one percent of us </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pesach will be here in two weeks time <br>I have written only a small fraction of all that is in me<br>And even that is far too much for me to ever reread </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life goes on for now <br>I am still alive <br>It is a beautiful sunny afternoon in Yerushalyim <br>I have been here for thirty- four years now </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There should be somehow one decisive concluding line <br>That brings this poem together <br>And makes it worthwhile </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How happy I am in my old age now loving life so much <br>G-d has been so good to me through all these years <br>What a beautiful beautiful day to look out at from inside.</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=517099" data-title="Is There A Poem Of The Afternoon? de Shalom Freedman" data-description="IS THERE A POEM OF THE AFTERNOON? Is there a poem of the afternoon? Sadness at so little having been done in the morning I have spent a life escaping And today too I escaped Learning studying reading Other worlds other people other minds Fa..."></div> </div> </div>

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