<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517530" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The History Poems Have Not Been Written</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The history poems have not been written<br>The poems after Milosz<br>The Wallace Stevens poems will never be written<br>I can’t come close<br>I have tried the Blake poems<br>But of course I am not near them either<br>I would like to the ironic intellectual poems <br>I might be able to do them<br>I could do a kind of surrealistic association mind poem a prose poem<br>But I don’t like that very much<br>The poems of Jerusalem have not been good enough<br>Poems of propaganda are awkward and unacceptable <br>The small poems that tell of my life<br>They are for me the chance at real poetry<br>And I will continue as best I can with them<br>The American poems I have not yet found the idiom for <br>I can be epigrammatic in Emerson Thoreau fashion<br>But not with the hard New England observing eye <br>Borges poems I love <br>And the stories of mind and literature <br>Making the drama of a life of a storyteller <br>Interest me<br>But I doubt I could truly do them well <br>Imitation can only take one so far<br>And through it one may lose one’s way entirely <br>I can really do only what I am<br>Not the Dickinson poems nor the Hopkins poems nor the Wordsworth poems nor the Keats poems nor the Amichai poems nor the poems of many others whose poetry I love<br>The Biblical poems have been tried<br>The poems of cosmic and scientific reflection <br>I could try to improve them <br>There are too many different kinds of poems to write<br>And I cannot write almost all of them <br>This is another poem about poems and poetry <br>I have written many for a long time now<br>Perhaps I need to go elsewhere and write in a new way <br>A way I have not dreamed or even remotely understood possible before. <br>The poems of the unknown poetry await me <br>I will go on but I am not sure now I know in which wa</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=517530" data-title="The History Poems Have Not Been Written de Shalom Freedman" data-description="The history poems have not been written The poems after Milosz The Wallace Stevens poems will never be written I can’t come close I have tried the Blake poems But of course I am not near them either I would like to the ironic intellectual poems ..."></div> </div> </div>

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