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Hair Raising
The fun thing about being deadis the haunting. Revenge. It's Payback Time Whoo Hoo.I'm updating my Visiting Book,adding some, crossing off a fewin..
© Michael Shepherd
Haiku-Ish For Cm
You took my breath away.What did you do with it?Ah yes, I remember.
© Michael Shepherd
Haemorrhoid Ode - For Herbert
vets help lame dogsover stiles, whileothers doctordogged piles
© Michael Shepherd
Hacker Hero
How would a healthy,confident nation,a nation that loves sport..how would it react,hearing that some young hackerhad penetrated 34 was it,of its most..
© Michael Shepherd
Guantanamo
Allah the Just, the Merciful.That must be sootherwise human beingswould have no conceptionof justice or mercywhich is a solemn thought.Suppose,and..
© Michael Shepherd
Grown-Ups Are Daft - A Limerick For Rh
I went round the keyboard-type shopsBut they only stocked qwertyuiop s...Well, I ask you - if weCan't read straight, ABCOur schooling is fooling...
© Michael Shepherd
Green Thoughts From A Kyoto Garden In Spring After Closing Time
what would earth bewithout rain?where would rain gowithout earth?
© Michael Shepherd
Good Friday
A recipe for thought:Take a pair of scalesas large as the boundless human mind,and into one scalepour all the goodness in the world that you can..
© Michael Shepherd
Golden Links In Golden Chains
Imagine – well, try to imagine -what it must have been liketo a poet of, say,1480in, say, Florence, that sounds civilised,the day he (probably he)..
© Michael Shepherd
God Friday
Todaythe heavens openedfirst thinglater the sun came outand everything perked upGood Friday
© Michael Shepherd
Gertrude Stein Chews The Fat
We asked ourself a questionsince no-one else asked itit was are poems about the poetor about poetryor about neitheror about bothand now we had asked..
© Michael Shepherd
Geoff Chaucer Reads Tom Eliot
A clerke there was, one Tomas Elyot hight;‘Stearns’ wasse hys middel name; I think him so;His gowne a cutte severe, sterne, clericale.Hie werkéd in a..
© Michael Shepherd
Fundamental Reggae
'fun-da-mental-ism' miss God's fun, man -who want a God wittout a smile? ...'fun-da-mental' send this chile mental...me thinkin', God too He run a..
© Michael Shepherd
From Sengtzan (Died 606 Ad/Ce) , The Third Patriarch Of Zen
How may we walk all free and undisturbedthrough life, as if there were no other way?So that our human nature finds no breakbetween our nature, and..
© Michael Shepherd
From Goethe On Boldness (For Poets And Others
How many noble schemes from goodwill's heart,how many splendid plans and fine ideashave foundered, lost their glorious craft and artthrough hesitancy..
© Michael Shepherd
Freshen Up Your Love Poems
Honey,i wanted to write you a real blasterso i looked in 'Writers' Weekly'and sent off for 'Freshen Up Your Love Poems'by, it said, 'a well-known..
© Michael Shepherd
Freedom's In The Air
‘Let Justice be done,though the heavens may fall’…Now the overnight, merciful dewhas fallen on the hottest July dayon record, (why does it give..
© Michael Shepherd
Fr Ee Cummings And Goings
if thoseonly randomthoughtswouldcometogetherinto aP O E M
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Fourteen Lines
Old poets, torturing their thoughts to rhyme,their lovely English verse to end-words tied,oft found just cause to moan of 'envious Time',and seek..
© Michael Shepherd
Found Poem 8
'The asymmetryin the conflict'sdeath tollshave led tothe accusationof disproportionate use of armsby Israel''asymmetry'...
© Michael Shepherd
Found Poem 7
What does happen occasionallyis that Kenny gets an idea for a dishand writes on the specials board- yes, there is a specials board -something like..
© Michael Shepherd
Found Poem 6
Brace up for a bellyful time today,February 5—it’s Super Sunday!Did you know that after Thanksgivingit’s on this day thatmaximum food is consumedin..
© Michael Shepherd
Found Poem 5
He's still the world's most powerfulwine critic; howeverhis palatedoesn't command quite the authorityit once did.
© Michael Shepherd