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").

0328 Holy Shit

0328 Holy Shitjeez I thought here’sthis lady I have the greatestrespect for and shecomes out with this holy crapand holy shit stuffso yesterday I..

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0325 Hip Hippie Hooray

All those 'Sixties hippiesare in their sixties now (..man) -hope they ain't forgottenlife is just a wow (..man) ...

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0323 God Removes In Mysteriousways

Knock at door.Is this 34c Warren Hastings Court?(Shout from upstairs)Tell him we don’t want no doorsteppers today, Ali.I don’t think you understand..

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0322 Globetrotting Snails

a great title for a rock group butfrom this week, fact or at leasttruthish. species have been foundto travel many thousands of milesacross land and..

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0321 From A Drop, Of Gasolene

Did you noticeas you put the nozzle back in placeafter filling your tank today,a drop, of oil, of gasoline, of petrolfell on the stained and stony..

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0320 Forget Me? Not!

To see the greatness of Creation- greater than science, greater than religion –and perhaps to see in mind, perhaps to praise,look to the smallest..

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0319 For Jake - A Sloppigram

Some days I love crap sentiment’cause I know there’s real sentiment under thereSome days I love silly pomes’cause I know it takes a happy man to be..

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0318 Five

Five fingers touchingin the warmth of night;five toes walking youwhen your back feels tight;five senses yearningin the half-filled bed;five times..

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0317 Fingertip To Fingertip, A Human Net

i think it's really wonderfulthat with all the million poems on this netpeople find their way to read what each of us has reador written.it's like a..

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0316 Faith - For You Who Asked

Yes, there is a stageand yes, there are actors;a script to engage;an experienced director..Yes, indeed, I’ll pray for youto the One they say best..

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0315 Experimental Poem In Space For Vincent

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0314 Executive Decision

‘Look! now briefly, mortal living head -As severed from thy now so lifeless limbsIn brief and, who knows, truthful, godly view,So solemn, oncely..

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0313 Every Poem's An Adventure

Reader, if it’s the first time that you hitthis site, stretching out like a landscapeas far as the mind may reach – just, we ask,remember –every..

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0312 Even The Best May Stumble

Let’s supposeyou’ve bought or blaggedan invite to a buzzy West End partyafter the football game, whereyou’ll ‘mingle with the stars’and when you get..

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0311 Eternal Justice

I was just staggering in the gatewith two heavy bagsfrom an exhausting week’s conferencewhen the conman and his accomplicegot me right at my own..

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0309 Eeyore's View Of The State Of The Nation

If you build a great nationon the statement‘In God we trust’and then proceedto deny that in your actions,in your thinking,you start to believe inthe..

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0308 Dylan (4)

sholam alechem all you mothersand don't think your son is so greatif you could only see him tonite -like an animalan ugly, vibrating, menstrating..

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0307 Dylan (3)

I have to quit smokingbut I can't quit smokingI love to smokealmost as muchas I love to love (Robert Zimmerman,1960)

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0305 Dylan (2)

I search the depths of my soul for an answerbut there is no answerbecause there is no questionand there is no time(Robert Zimmerman,1960)

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0305 Dylan (1)

the motorcycle leansthe motorcycle swerves...the motorcycle just don'tgive a damnabout anything(Robert Zimmerman,1960)

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0304 Drawing Space

See this whitish sheet - now mellowing to a shadeof precious ivory - gently revealing in the finest lines of silver-pointtwo lovers whose whole air..

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0303 Diary Of A Poem

The Indians have a word for it, of course -'sphota' - not too unlike our 'photo-flash' -meaning, an explosion in consciousness:as you recognise it in..

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0302 Design For Living

I believe with William Morristhat there should be nothing in the housewhich is not known to be usefulor seen to be beautiful.So I'm filing for..

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0300 Dante On Mowing The Front Lawn

Let's not go into the matter of thatdark wood in our back garden whichshames us in the eyes of ourprissy neighbours (we call itour 'poetic arbour'..

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0299 Customs And Excise

The postman who never looks me in the face(was it something the garlic said?)has just delivered a parcelheavy with historyand I’m left holding it and..

© Michael Shepherd