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! Where Sexy Meets Demure In A Place Called Trim
In the seat opposite in the undergroundin the off-peak afternoon,neat shoes, nice legs, skirt just the exact right lengthwhere demure meets sexy in a..
© Michael Shepherd
! Where Poems Grow
I love poems that growout of themselvesout of nowhere reallylike an empty window-boxyou’ve cleared, but haven’tany plans for and one daysome seed..
© Michael Shepherd
! What We See As...
What we see as nounsare verbs to God…see the water in this glass –clear and still;taste the water in this glass –its sweet taste with no taste..watch..
© Michael Shepherd
! What Is A Poem? (From The Chinese)
The poet, bent over the paper, ink-brush in hand,carefully defining poetry for his pupilsdid not see the first stork of the Springin the limitless..
© Michael Shepherd
! What A Wild Wind Today
What a wild wind todayin Wimbledon Park,80 mph they say,mischievous, shameless,wild child, it cannot distinguishbetween fun and destructionhere in..
© Michael Shepherd
! Welcome To My Casting Couch, But Read The Small Print First
Where is the oneI used to love so passionately –and who, I thought,loved me so passionately too…?good question..Two hot, cool chicks,Ellen Berscheid..
© Michael Shepherd
! We The Unforgiving
and we’ll never quite forgive our parentsfor being our parentsand we’ll never never forgive that onewe thought our best friendfor stopping being our..
© Michael Shepherd
! 'We Read The World Wrong...'...Worse Than That...
Yes – we read the world wrong,and say that it deceives us,said Tagore…just imagine, if the snake said,you can’t see me… no, I’m justa stick of..
© Michael Shepherd
! Watching The British Play Tennis...
and I'm more than ever now, convincedthe British have a subconscious urgeto prove to the world that a good gamethat everyone enjoys, sitting forward..
© Michael Shepherd
! Washedaye's Metaphysikale. For Tara.
Myne mynde to me a tumbledryere ysse,where muste I watche my scrumpled, worn-oute thoughtesseeke their redemptione in Hys watere’s..
© Michael Shepherd
! Victimisation As Threat And Control
She’s the village’s Force For Good –or that’s the flag she sails under;news of distant earthquakes, floods,famines, ethnic or other massacresare her..
© Michael Shepherd
! Unmethodical Discourse At A Café Table
By the flickering candlelightof the long evenings,inimical to study so they saidthey played this gameto while away the timebetween learning and..
© Michael Shepherd
! Unbound Lyric, For Shirley Who Said So
Bonding, but not binding…now, there’s true love, for you…fondly done by findingwhat joins you for true…bonding, but not binding…free to fly in..
© Michael Shepherd
! U N I C O R N 1 5
and though there are places, times,when you are most likely to find itthere in your heart,there in front of your eyes –the mossy glade within the..
© Michael Shepherd
! Txtng U Phers...
IMHO -& jst FWIW -u my thnk ths pm a slly 1or u my brk out in mrth -bt if u're LOLthn, at th nd o th dy (ATEOTD)thts wht it's all abt (TWIAA)- if..
© Michael Shepherd
! Travelling With Robert Frost
Everyone but poets(who have their own allegiances)would acknowledge it – you were, and I guess still are,the most famous and popular poet ofthe 20th..
© Michael Shepherd
! Tony Hoagland
and yes even the photoon the back coveras if he’d gone to the studio,said, I’ve written this bookof seriously funnily serious verse somake me into a..
© Michael Shepherd
! Tolstoy On Love
Love is life. Life is love.Everything I understand,I understand only becauseI love.Everything is,everything existsonly becauseI love.Everything is..
© Michael Shepherd
! To, For, About, Because Of, Spike Milligan
Spike, we talked of you today.You’ll have to live with that now, I guess -it seems that everyone hasa place in their hearts for you.So, like a heap..
© Michael Shepherd
! To William Carlos Williams, Sorta
I would talk to youof shadows cast by street lights;but not so much in wordsrather, take a walk with you,say, this is a street I know well,may we..
© Michael Shepherd
! To William Blake, Poet, At Christmas
Through the tearssoon breaks a smile;See God's Gracehere in a Child.Eyes washed clear,the Soul shines bright;eyes washed clean,the World's Delight.
© Michael Shepherd
! To The Spirits Of Abn 'Arabi, Poet, And Averroes, Philosopher
The philosopher asked the poet,Does what the poets and the mysticsfind in their hearts, agreewith what the philosophers have discoveredor reasoned to..
© Michael Shepherd
! To Omar Khayyam
Omar – (do I need to insistthat’s the poet, not the terrorist?) –when I was young and life was franticI found your poetry romantic –a loaf of bread..
© Michael Shepherd
! To Li Po (Li Bai) And Uriah
Dear Li Po,strange things happen to poetsduring their life,especially those who like wine.But now, more than a thousand yearsafter your suicide,men..
© Michael Shepherd