Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
0399 The Day You Went
The day you went,the first primrose appearedas if it didn't know.The day you went,the blackbird sangas if no-one had asked it to be silent.The day..
© Michael Shepherd
0398 The Blackbird's Song
Waking to the blackbird's song -insisting, so it seems, on something close to joy and praise...the sun's just breaking through the morning mist;the..
© Michael Shepherd
0397 That, It Is
unknown; formless;eternal; always presentwho may think of it?who may speak of it?who may not think of it?who may not speak of it?where is it?where is..
© Michael Shepherd
0396 The Almost Unknown Language
I like to think thatthere's a languagewhich is unspoken, unwrittenexcepton rare occasions when a poetputs two words together orsometimes evena whole..
© Michael Shepherd
0396 Thanks To A Poet
Youwrote a poemI read itwhile I read itI was youI feel goodthanks
© Michael Shepherd
0395 Sunset Boulevard
I loved your stories of the old times -the endless journeys of the band bus,Judy with her black-eyed girl,the first action at each hotelthe drawer..
© Michael Shepherd
0393 Veterans' Day
The veterans of the last timedie off one by onewith a smileand bitter memoriesand pridebut which those others had no chanceto find within..
© Michael Shepherd
0382 Sportsman Lacks Ship
He's just won the tennis match;walks up to the net,shakes hands with his opponentbut his eyes don't follownow they're off to the umpire's chair;he..
© Michael Shepherd
0381 Spider On The Web
so here I am, sitting here, as I write to you,half of me thinking about poetry and everything,half of me thinking, time to shut down the PC,you're..
© Michael Shepherd
0380 Sonnet: Katrina To Marc
Marc – remember splashing through the waves,and walking barefoot in the sand, so finebetween the toes? And how the breeze, that day,caressed your..
© Michael Shepherd
0379 Species: Sonnet 190
It's said that every species in the worlddisplays one gift beyond the scope of Man;how dangerous the skies - to men and birds -how soiled the air, if..
© Michael Shepherd
0378 Song Of Impatience And Experience
When two or threewire coathangersare gathered togetheranger arises.By day, they hang outdemurely, side by side.By night they couple closetedin..
© Michael Shepherd
0377 Should Be, But
I should be writing a poemabout those small wisps of white cloudmoving unusually fast across a blue blue skyon their way to somewhere elseas if..
© Michael Shepherd
0376 Self-Search
Hey, Self - how do I know that you exist?Or are you just a word - a useful termfor what we hope our real nature is,those things about us which we're..
© Michael Shepherd
0375 Season Of Mists And Merry Mythfulness
You…leave…the…Pennsylvania classroom at aquarter to four..leaving all your Bio. notesfor checking, at the door…With exquisite timing, a Pennsylvania..
© Michael Shepherd
0374 Seasonal Greetings To...
In the spirit of the seasonI'm working on a big-hearted,multi-faith, inter-faith, lack-of-faithreligiously correct yet thinking outside the box (6 x..
© Michael Shepherd
0373 Regret
We have a 'past'...however, now, not true;since only in the present is true life;and yet, the heart may sometimes deeply ruesome past event, or..
© Michael Shepherd
0372 Reflection On A Garden Pond
It's unexpectedly mild this early Spring eveningand I take my glass of beer, cold in the hand,and slide the patio door open and step out for the..
© Michael Shepherd
0371 Reading Behind The Lines
So if it makes you feel great,OK, go ahead -as long as you're making yourself more attractivefor me, not your next husband...OK, look like Anne..
© Michael Shepherd
0369 Prayer. To Mike, Who Asked.
Simplest prayer, soonest answered,so it’s said; so let us be as little children(themselves an answered prayer..?)and ask the simplest questions -how?..
© Michael Shepherd
0368 Post-Modern Irony
With all the excitement of a Florentine writer around 1480who's just heard about the new invention of printingand has plans to use it bigtimeI'm..
© Michael Shepherd
0367 Portrait Of The Poet As Sea-Monster
The poet -by whom I meanan ordinary human being like you or mewho keeps a diaryof the mind and heartand then publishes itwith luckand maybe sells a..
© Michael Shepherd
0366 Poem As Snake, Poem As Not-Snake
Walking the narrow, stepped path that bendsthrough our local sub-tropical,magical landfall, full of strangeness,there it wasacross the path,brownish..
© Michael Shepherd
0365 Poets And One World
The poet's world and the philosopher'smay seem to be in aim, and truth of act,so different; the poet offers usfine dreams of heart; philosophy, fine..
© Michael Shepherd
0364 Poetry Reads; Poetry Speaks
It’s like an adult version of a parlour game, isn’t it?a sorta cross between a single-handed game of patienceand a crossword puzzle where the guy who..
© Michael Shepherd