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! ! Coo Coo Coo
The lazy cuckoodies after eight thousand calls -the gods are counting.
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Consumed By Love
Thanks to the hundreds of you who dailyare so eager to enhance my lifeand that of my partnerwith pills and extensionsgiving night-long passion -now..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Commentator Steams Through To Gold In Banality Final
If he really wants to win this titlehe’s got to really work at it in this race:is he hungry enough?this is what all those years of traininghave been..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Cloud Of Unknowing
How strange it is – and yet, why should it be? –that all things seem to live most unawareof that which gives them life itself to live;so see the All..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Clothes Moth
This tiny motheating the jacket I no longer wearis my teacher in the Tao
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Climate Change
I wrote a poem on the windwith raindrops in my handand heard a forest sigh in painin Amazon's deep land.
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Celebrating Spring
The tiny white violets from the fieldlimp and sad in the cut-glass vase -good luck or bad luck?
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Celebrating Philip Larkin
He looks out at you from the photographor rather, doesn’t: eyes wide but blank,thick lenses would place your imagein a plane you don’t inhabit;like a..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! C-Day Minus X
In the days (and whodare count them?) beforeThe First Day of Creation (Official)God spent some time (thoughof course, to Him, timeless..)allowing for..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Carol For Advent
‘As the sun that shines through glass,so Jesus in his mother was; ’as a babe in cot be laid,so was He in Mary made;as ripe fruit in basket laden,so..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Candlelight
So many bees, who know so muchthat only bees can tell,gave their life’s devotionto this single source of light;silent whisper for your attentionto..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Business And Busyness
‘I’m very busy at the moment; butI’ll look forward to reading your messagewhen I have more time…’yeah yeah…oh you ‘busy’ ones –I’m on to you…tell me..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Birthright, Giftright
Look at it this way for a moment,if it please you:those horoscopes (Dadcalled them ‘horror-scopes’)which we may read with mingledemotions, hopes..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Bier Is Rest
Friends, in the name of God,dig my grave just behind the pubnext to the sewer pipe;so I might hear in the morningthe casks delivered in the yardand..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Belovéd Victims Of Themself
There are those who, forthe deepest reasons even they forget,offer themselves upon the altarof the three afflictions:body, mind and heart:..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Being, Here, Now
First, I gave up asking, Why?for I was never told the truth;now I live in whylessness;then I gave up asking, How?for they said, best find out for..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Being The Monna Lisa. Exclusive.
If you think it would be fun to be famous,sit in for me for a day. And be cured.Fame...builds you upthen drains you.‘Celebrity’ – the very wordhas..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Be, Here, Now
‘The camera does not lie’;yet the truth rests in yourself..Here’s this photo of one, saidby those who know, to be a saint;(no one to say smile now..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Be Clay
Don’t be half-hearted about this –be clay.You know all about clay –be clay.Humble, submissive, reverent –awaiting the Potter’s hands.Enjoy that..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Barely Rhymed Sonnet: Love And Law
The universe, a single act of love,it’s said; and ever so, then, must remain;is never other; has no place for hate,save in the minds and hearts of..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Autumnal Thought
Were I a maple,people would flock to see meradiant in old age.
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Aunt Jess
Our 'Aunt' Jess died just days ago; her partner phoned last night;the funeral was private, perhaps for reasons whichwe now might guess; a village can..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! As Parents To Our Parents
They never teach you this at school;they'll try to teach you reading, writing, 'rithmeticin their own instructed ways;but now, if anyone suggested..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Are You Offended By The Word 'Offensive'? If So..
‘Cell-phone and sell’ is the new money-maker;‘taking offence’ vicariously is the new morality…switch on your mobile if you’re nearany ‘celebrity’ –..
©  Michael Shepherd
! ! Antihaiku
This bright, silent moonshines on me and alsoSerbia; Iraq..
©  Michael Shepherd