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! Mary Mary Magdalene
Mary Mary Magdalene,what do all those stories mean?Mary, Mary, is it true,Jesus had a thing for you?Mary, Mary – He lay with you?Mary, Mary, tell me..
© Michael Shepherd
! Mariah Carey's Hideous Secret
Now promise you won’t tell anyone(though what’s the fun of having a secretif you can’t tell anyone? …)Mariah Careywas never a member of theMickey..
© Michael Shepherd
! Lyric 5: Staggered Assonance
the singing in the living, listening hearttells love in whispers; and the heart is alwayslistening; for that heart is always bliss; allhearts in all..
© Michael Shepherd
! Love's Perfection
Oh I am so fortunate.In the past and in the present.We fell in love, and lovedand it was totaland unexpectedand revelatoryand unique, of courseand..
© Michael Shepherd
! Love's Light: The Philosopher At The Window
The eyes, it's said, are windows of the soul;and when I see your eyes so sparkling bright,I see there beauty, truth and goodness; allas one; the..
© Michael Shepherd
! Love You
Dearest T…,Great to hear from you!I’m glad the hospital didn’t confiscateyour mobile and your laptopthis time…but – what can I say?I’m sorry to hear..
© Michael Shepherd
! Love Is Difficult: Isaac Of Nineveh
Love is difficultuntil it’s easy..How to write of this,unless, until, we’re like him.. old and wise andblind with reading and austerity,speaking of..
© Michael Shepherd
! Love And Understanding
Who today would praiseconsciousness itself,which brings new life and thoughtevery morning, openingour minds a little more,making the light seem..
© Michael Shepherd
! Life Can Be So Surreal
When he first clapped eyes on heryou could have heard the clappingin the next ballroom.Then his eyes danced.They disengaged themselves gracefullyas..
© Michael Shepherd
! Leaf
It was one of so many; an armyof greenness; anonymous footsoldierin the cause of nature’s greater good.It was tree.First, as summer lingered into..
© Michael Shepherd
! Laying Down The Psalms
The book sags open on my lapas I cease reading, stare into blind space,gaze into a history that answers not;lost in the troubles of an ancient..
© Michael Shepherd
! Lakshmi In Her Silken Veil
Lakshmi, in her silken veilof modesty, walks unrecognised,free as birds are free, around our world…veiled in stillness; her lovely armsbestowing..
© Michael Shepherd
! Just Another Rant
There are things which we all knowbut pretend we don’tas we watch them with amusement wriggling publiclyout of their public bonds..1) You can always..
© Michael Shepherd
! Joy Enjoyed With Or Without Hope...
Joygets a bad pressfrom poets and divines –it’s fleeting, can’tbe trusted, bringsa downside;better far they sayis bliss: quiet, indifferent,that is..
© Michael Shepherd
! John Of Forde, His Witness
John of FordeKneeling there, the candles living flamein the darkened abbey, brother monksstill and silent at the golden altar rail,kneeling there..
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! John Of Forde, His Exculpation
What I say and what I writemay seem to you – may seem to me –as foolishness and folly; forI talk of boundless things, and of infinity;which by their..
© Michael Shepherd
! Jewels Of The Beach
Plash…keesh… plash…keeshthe waves throw themselvesonto the pebbly beach,but as if they regret their own angry generosity,pull back a sieved undertow..
© Michael Shepherd
! It's Time For A Little Timelessness
I said to the stone,What time is it?The stone was silent.I said to the eagle,What day is it?The eagle looked fiercely at me,Then turned its head..
© Michael Shepherd
! 'It's Joost Not Furr! ...'
From my extended family,the indignant cry rings out –‘It’s joost not FURR! ’…Whingers all? Ah – but listento the sound behind those words…this is not..
© Michael Shepherd
! Islamofascists And Christofascists (And Israelofascists Too?)
Well, you’d expect them to hate each other,since it’s the nature of the beastand deep down they hateall human beings, and hate themselves…those who..
© Michael Shepherd
! In The Steps Of Rumi: 86: Here, Maybe Now..
Maybe there really is ‘somewhere else’.Maybe there isn’t.Travel agents tell me there is.They even suggest that I’ll be someone differentwhile I’m..
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! In The Steps Of Rumi 88: Metaphor
Simile – what looks like something else –that’s a fun game for the senses,for the mind: oh look Dad,there’s a scarecrow in that fieldthat looks just..
© Michael Shepherd
! In The Steps Of Rumi 87: A Windy Day
Isn’t it a windy day?The wind gets everywhere,loves especially to have fun,enjoys rattling loose doors as if it would come in,to become a quiet..
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! In The Steps Of Rumi 86: The Mirror
This mirror.She has stood in front of it for many minutes;this; that;finally asked the mirror silentlyits opinion.The mirror agreed with the..
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! In The Steps Of Rumi 85: War
War?Far harder than the battles of menis the battle to surrenderto that which was therebefore all battles.
© Michael Shepherd