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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
0363 Poem For The Po-Faced
Marcel Duchamp's urinalis overflowingwith the minds of criticsand needs emptyingupwards (for AJS)
©  Michael Shepherd
0362 Party To Truth
'The British elections are not firing the voters,since they don't trust politicians any more...'cor stone the crows!as we used to say in the dayswhen..
©  Michael Shepherd
0361 Over My Dead Body..
The central aisle – more, an asphalted roadway –of Brompton Cemetery would be hard to beat.It’s no Forest Lawns, Pere Lachaise, but greatfor passing..
©  Michael Shepherd