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Unicorn 12
where the unlimited meets the limited,and the unimagined meets the imagined;where the unseen meets the seen,and the eye meets the heart;where the..
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Unicorn 11
Where the unlimited, expanding, limiting itself as it expands,reaches where it can limit itself no further –there it is; there in its, our, world;..
© Michael Shepherd
Unicorn 10
Did they already have the image of that creaturegrazing deep within their heart and mindbefore the day when it revealed itself, gentle, sweet and..
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U N I C O R N 1 5
Those to whom it has revealed itself- grazing in a grove of trees,a ray of morning sunlightlighting the dewdrops on the mossy grass;or galloping..
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Two Poets
You know what it’s like- surely you do –you introduce one of your bestest friendsto another bestest friend,hoping for something wonderful..and they..
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Truth Is Stranger Than Friction
The joy of truth isthat it can be funnier,crazier,than fiction.On September 16 the refereesuspended a football matchfollowing complaints by the..
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Trench Warfare Haiku
kick aside that rat as you chargethat's busy on the faceof your dead mate whom you've no time to bury
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Today A Windy Monday
Today a windy Monday,brisk, businesslike north wind,I would make a great altarand pile it high as heavenwith washing straight off the lineshirts like..
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To The One Who Taught With Life
When I first lookedso deep into your eyesI rememberedall that I knewand had forgotten.Now, your eyes are closedbut mine are open, andI look around to..
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To The One Who 'Ones'
Sometimes I wonder what it's liketo be you - eagerly seeking outnew poems of mine and of some others, too;triumphantly scoring them a 1,or if they're..
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To That Guy Towards The Back Of The Class, He'Ll Know Who I Mean
Yes you,the one who’s noisy whenhe’s here which isn’t so very often -you’ll never believe it butI know you better than you’ll ever know…oh yes I do..
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To That Future One
the brain a gray wormceaselessly explores itselfand sometimes I think of allthe poems yet to be writtenand which I'll never readand marvel
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To Sandra
As I walked in the sunlightand slowed at the pedestrian crossinga woman waiting therelaughedand I saw in her,pure joyand a fine, quick..
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To Mary Ruefle, Poet
and since you're anAmerican Poet ora poet writing in Englishor however you might put thisin a cv which you'll surelynever need being uniqueand..
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To Linda Smith
'I play all my country and western musicbackwards -your loverreturns,your dogcomes back to lifeand you cease to bean alcoholic'(Linda Smith..
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To Jrr Tolkien And Christopher
Do cats dream of lions,and shirts dream of irons?Do cats dream of leopards,and sheep dream of shepherds?
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To Joyce And Blue Jays Everywhere
Thanks be to Godor Darwin's theory,or perhaps both?that blue jaysand all the birds that live in splendour and eternal peaceon the pages of..
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To Hn: A Nonsense Rhyme For A Troublous Time
bind your booksin crocodile skinand then thereoutwon't trouble therein
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To Be The Veda
Who am I?Who put me here?Why am I here?What should I do?Who will tell me who I am?Who will tell me, who put me here?Who will tell me, why I'm..
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To An Almost Unknown Poet As Of Now
Poetry and that's without quote markspoetry is the place for the big thingsand long may it bebut that would be an inappropriate dialling tone right..
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To A Fellow Poet, Rmw
didn't ask no explanations;list'nin' cuz youse an honest man;t'ain't the words but the sound behind 'em;so keep 'em goin', cuz i knows yer can...
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Time, Perhaps
Time perhaps, for wonder –to look around in aweat how all that surrounds ushas somehow come about..we who do not even knowhow to grow a..
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Through A Glass Darkly
The Chinese lady optician, her upbeat mannercoming over rather strangely in her pronunciation,peered deep into my eyes, though giving no signof..
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Thoughts On World Poetry
To coin a metaphor:It's like a Protestantwandering into a Catholic churchand hearing someone just out of the confessionalmuttering 32 Hail Mary's as..
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