A POEM DOES NOT KNOW ITSELF
A POEM DOES NOT KNOW ITSELF

A poem does not know itself
It is written from a mind not its own
It says what it does
And is what it is
Without being able to ask itself
Why it should live.

A poem is more than all it means
A poem is real when it seems.

Shalom Freedman

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