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Living In The Heart's Memory
A gentle touch upon the forearmwith a hand, gloved or warm with life,outside the church door;turning away from the open grave;by that concrete..
©  Michael Shepherd
Listening To Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The story is.. no..the history is.. no…the story of the history is,that back in the 15th century,the wild battered shores of Portugalthrew up strange..
©  Michael Shepherd
Lines To A Poet Of Middling Age
You are now too oldto indulge in arroganceand yet you are too youngto have anything to be arrogant aboutyou are in mortal perilat the midpoint of a..
©  Michael Shepherd
Lines From A Poet's Inner Landscape
His day is but a true disguise;a quiet Sunday, uninterrupted by the doorbell,unchained by circumstance, freed from fashion,in loneliness so deep he..
©  Michael Shepherd
Like That
It is chandeliersbrought alive with candlesand diamonds and emeraldsthrown up to themand the beach after a storma homecominga log thrown on the..
©  Michael Shepherd
Lights! Camera! ....Action! ...
I’m setting up this scene more carefullythan any other; it’s the key scene inthat film that’s forever unreleased:we’re sitting there..
©  Michael Shepherd
Lifelines
'after the divorcehe resumed drinkingand continued to writehis poetry'
©  Michael Shepherd
Life In Shadow Land (David Taylor)
Our future is a projection of our pastwith the promise of an ever present nowto grace proceedingswith spontaneous life and hopebeyond the present..
©  Michael Shepherd
Laugh Or Weep, Weep Or Laugh
Those masks of Comedy and Tragedythat hang over theatre doors and stagesgo back to those two Greek philosophers,the one, who wept at the follies of..
©  Michael Shepherd
Langston Hughes
I'd just like to put it downin black and white,Langston,while it's therethat I'm proud to seeyour name on my'also read' listI just wanted you to..
©  Michael Shepherd
Just 22 Miles Of Water
‘To understand allis to forgive all ‘ –that’s one French sayingthat doesn’t seem to havecrossed the few miles of‘The English Channel’, orthe Straits..
©  Michael Shepherd
John Betjeman, Poet
Six distinguished men, soaked to the skin,others with the ladies following,a coffin, underslung,a walk of half a mile along a rough churchgoing..
©  Michael Shepherd
Jogruffy
I used to be so vagueabout some place called...Prague?but now my mind's enlarged, I know it's really Prague..
©  Michael Shepherd
Jewish Haiku
Four thousand years of Hebrewand still no word for 'tact'.So who needs it?
©  Michael Shepherd
Its Jerry Hughes Day
Yesterday was Tuesday.Today it's Jerry Hughes Day.Happy Jerry Hughes Day, One and All.Celebrate it.Read his poems.Read them one and all.
©  Michael Shepherd
Internet Dating: Found Poem 7
'She claimed to be37but was really47,asked to borrow30 dollars,spent the eveningsmoking spliffsand told meshe could seeher therapist's officefrom the..
©  Michael Shepherd
Interfaith Debate
God is dead.God is great.My God is great.Your God is dead.Your God is great.My God is dead.Who made the Sun?My God.Your God.Great God.So, one..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Steps Of Rumi 85: A Messed-Up Life
Your life is a mess? In every way?And no sign of change?Your fault? Or that of others?Does it matter which, any more?Tears maybe? Time, then,for a..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Spirit Of Rumi-40-The Nightingale And The Rose
As cold winter turns to warming Spring,two lovers return from their winter rest.The first rose shyly blooms; .the nightingale pours out its..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Spirit Of Rumi-39-The Desert
As the cool dawn brings the lightto the desert where the blue-white skymeets the sand that time and man have brought,and you wake the camel boyto..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Spirit Of Rumi-19
When the desert breeze blewin the direction of Majnun’s tribal campLayla stood there hoping thatthe wind rippling through her silken robewould carry..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Spirit Of Rumi-18
I said to My BelovedO My BelovedI fear I have forgotten You!I have fallen in love with the world –when I walk out of the doorI swoon with the scent..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Spirit Of Rumi-17
I said to My BelovedWho is dearest to You, O My Beloved –those who seek to know Youor those who seek to love You?My Beloved saidThose who seek to..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Spirit Of Rumi-16
I said to My BelovedHow, my dearest one,do you know those who truly love You?My Beloved saidNot by their smiling face,nor by their eagerness;nor by..
©  Michael Shepherd
In The Spirit Of Rumi-13
I said to My BelovedO my dearest One,tell me of angelsMy Beloved saidWhen you are awake,you hear of angels andwonder about angelsWhen you dream,the..
©  Michael Shepherd