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! Ss For Ssnake
when it’s the s tucked away in ‘asleep’in its s for secret hideawayit feels s for safe and s for securethough you can see it keepsthe s there just in..
© Michael Shepherd
! Spring Afternoon
A spring morning – well,I only need to say the words?I’ll picture mine, you picture yours –champagne bubbling in the blood and in the mind,hopes and..
© Michael Shepherd
! Soul's Soliloquy
It’s said that universal single mind,as in a flash it flowers in our individual mind,hastens first in two directions: polar opposites,and then and..
© Michael Shepherd
! Sonnet 59 For Dad
I'm thinking, Dad, that soon, maybe, we'll meet;at least, that's how it seems from what I hear;the info's not at all clear on this point:like, where..
© Michael Shepherd
! Some Poems Have A Vast Interior
Some poems have a vast interior;a deep, wild, impenetrable up-country,traversed as in some dreamso long, no-one can sayhow long; beforethey meet the..
© Michael Shepherd
! Some Other Poet, Some Other Poetry
and yes, since we can all dreamsome other life – but do not, cannot,dream its divergences, its accidents,its departures and arrivals,I dream some..
© Michael Shepherd
! Some Of My Best Fiends Are Critics
How easy, and how comfortableto sit on the sidelinesof another's poetry!You think you've paidfor your seat.You haven't.
© Michael Shepherd
! Some Applications May Be Denied
What’s that noise, between a boom and a crash?oh of course – it’s the computer, having a bashat trying to alert the next-room methat we’re running..
© Michael Shepherd
! Solstice
This year,21 December is the crucial day:Earth, Sun, in their ancient dance.Do they need our help?The day, here in the North, shrinking;what should..
© Michael Shepherd
! Smile Enlargement! Free ****ing Offer!
Are you ashamed of your tiny smile?Does it make you embarrassed?Does it limit your social life?Wouldn’t you like to draw all the chicks,have them..
© Michael Shepherd
! Singing The Silences
It’s almost as if wesing them to each other all the dayto many tunes of silence:toss them, daring youto dropp them;throw them like stones;say them..
© Michael Shepherd
! Silent About That Night
In later years,seated around a huge fire,crackling and spitting on a snowy night,the best beer in Europe frothing from the jug,they'd ask him..
© Michael Shepherd
! Shop Until You Surface
It’s the weekend – butyou’re feeling low – well, more than low…time, perhaps, for retail therapy…the girls, the boys, go about it differently:with..
© Michael Shepherd
! She As Life Itself
She passes through lifewith grace and ease and lightnesslike a fine bright silken saricaught by the gentle breezeon an early sunny morningand life..
© Michael Shepherd
! She And She
they’re ‘close’, we say,wishing to be fair, kind, just;wishing not to know too much;in case this cloudsour mind’s clear day..they’ve been together..
© Michael Shepherd
! Senility - Now, Where Did I Leave That? ...
I wouldn't want to lendanyone my memory, these days -they might forgetto give it back.
© Michael Shepherd
! Season Of Mists And Mellow Evening Class
There's a nip in the air these days.Time for self-improvement.In evening class, some nightswill be fruitful, joyous, all you hoped.Then there'll be..
© Michael Shepherd
! Sculpting Krishna (2)
His parents guarded the temple,answered questions; the childwandered, looked, later readall that was said;now, he selects the stone,listening all the..
© Michael Shepherd
! Saint Valentine On Tough Love
When those you most lovediethat's the time to speak in praise of love(said Saint Valentine) .When those you have most lovedup and go, without a..
© Michael Shepherd
! Saint Maximus At Prayer
Sometimes, it’s all humour –a divine joke shared between gods and men,a twinkle in the eye of the Creator…seeing to it, that the mannamed Maximus..
© Michael Shepherd
! Saint Bernard In The Fields At Clairvaux. For Hilary.
That day as the sun set,its afterglow flooded the world with lightlike the meeting of heaven and earth; thenthe great bell of the abbey tolled the..
© Michael Shepherd
Mb067. Vritra And Nahusha
MAHABHARATALord Indra of heaven didn't hide,His growing arrogance and pride,To Brihaspati his preceptor,He failed to give respect proper.Hurt by him..
© Rajaram Ramachandran
Mb066. Salya's Role Against Pandavas
MAHABHARATAThe Kingdom Madradesa's ruler,Was Salya, the Madri's brother.Madri was mother of Nakula,And his twin brother Sahadeva.He was expected to..
© Rajaram Ramachandran