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0155 Dreams, Dreams, Dreams...
The phone’s just rung: ‘Hi this is Rosieyou’ve been selected for a five-dayluxury cruise to the Bahamas’…dreams, dreams, dreamsone of the few things..
© Michael Shepherd
0153 Eine Kleine Morgenmusik
Dawn entered on time. The warning flashof lightning like a conductor’s upraised batondemanding thunder’s drumrollechoing round the mountains...
© Michael Shepherd
0152 Ecology Needs A Fine Balance
An active eco-warrior he;he loved all trees and frogs;that's why, before he drowned, he uppedand shot the legs off dogs.
© Michael Shepherd
0151 Donald Rumsfeldt's Guide To Love
As we know(or like to think we do)There are known knowns(we all need more love)There are things we know we know(we’re not getting enough of it)We..
© Michael Shepherd
0149 Donald Rumsfeld Meets Descartes
which is why the Greekstrudged off to Delphito find outif 'Know Thyself'was consumer-friendly oras sore-footed a pathas Oedipus trodand if you think..
© Michael Shepherd
0148 Dear Jenny Joseph...
Dear Jenny Joseph,How are you getting along these days?Now that you've hit our 'top poems' list?I'll bet that, as a National Treasureyou're asked to..
© Michael Shepherd
0147 Do Only Poets Know...?
Do only poets knowhow every word is born,comes winging from eternity,to be tasted, savoured on the tongueand then returnedwith love, humility and..
© Michael Shepherd
0146 Contemplation's Metaphysical
The height and depth and length and breadth of God -that's what is promised to contemplatives:and God, the sphere whose centre's everywhereand whose..
© Michael Shepherd
0145 Chinese Landscape
The old pine treeleans out from the rocksover the still lakewith respectthough no-one guesses thisonce a monththe pine tree is silhouettedagainst the..
© Michael Shepherd
0144 Clickety
Clickety.The old-fashioned slide machine you thought thatyou'd abandoned long agosuddenly goes clickety out of nowhere, and throws upan image you..
© Michael Shepherd
0143 Coming To A Retirement Home Near You...
Stop me if...The story is,The Queen visited our localOld Folks' Home (well, it's called The Senior Enclave now...)and walking along the wheelchair..
© Michael Shepherd
0142 Buttering Bread
YesterdayI was buttering bread for sandwicheswhen I saw myself doing thisas I must have watched you all those years ago,and forgotten ever since 'til..
© Michael Shepherd
0140 André Agassi
Over the years, his business-like humility -as if he's here to serve our sheer delight -his human sweetness - rarely so visiblein the male of the..
© Michael Shepherd
0137 Around Botticelli's Primavera - For E E Cummings
so the blue-with-cold wind came fromonto the country-awkward girl who spoke florally withstepping easter-dressed towardswhile Cupid aimed an arrow..
© Michael Shepherd
0137 Afternoon Love At The Lawyer's Chambers
I kissed her therein, wheresoever;hereinunder she cried 'Furthermore...! ;we conjointly set down notwithstanding,ensconced thereupon heretofore.
© Michael Shepherd
0136 Agitation In Hundred-Acre Wood
'CR..' said Pooh, holding his paw tight round CR's hand as he did when he had a Disturbing Thought, 'how do you pronounce St? 'The Animals were..
© Michael Shepherd
0135an Informal Note To God
In case you were on holiday, this nice sunny weather,(and may I say, what a great idea the Sun is?)I thought I'd dropp you a line to say, in case you..
© Michael Shepherd
0134 All Things Shine
Everything is full of its own essence;so full, it shines beyond itselfand makes its own space,an inner space so greatthat it meets ourselves in its..
© Michael Shepherd
0132 A Tribute To Ws Merwin
You know when you meet them,they’re going to take you somewhereyou didn’t know was there socouldn’t know you wanted for themto take you therethere..
© Michael Shepherd
0131 A Sufi-Ish Reflection
walk the world in wonderand think who created thought.
© Michael Shepherd
0131 A Quiet Word About Peace
Peace is natural.Peace is life-giving.Peace will remain for eternity.Anger is unnatural.Anger is life-consuming.And that's how it is.
© Michael Shepherd
0127 A Poem About Gertrude Stein
a poem sleptthe poem sleptnobody knew it sleptit did not know itself that it sleptit slept like a babyand that was refreshingit refreshed itself..
© Michael Shepherd
0126 A Longstanding Question
It’s rather a delicate personal matter…I could of course say I’m just asking for a friend…but I guess You’d see through that, from what I hear…I..
© Michael Shepherd
0125 A Footballer Kicks A Cliché Into Touch
(British readers only)At the end of the daythat's what it's all aboutsunset
© Michael Shepherd