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A Tribute To William Bronk, Poet.
There you have him, and you have him not..his life, his poetry;humility, yetthe glimpse of glory;the glimpse of glory, yethumility..There’s how it..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Senseless Poem For Senseless Entrepreneurs
The Honourable 'Stinky' Fartbuttonall his life felt put onbeing burdened with such a nameuntil one dread night,surfing a website,he found he'd..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Rose Is Only Until
hold the cameraas the rose's petalsfallone byoneuntil.backwardsfilmtherunNowa minor miracleof memoryin two dimensionsonce three.you.I.whoholdsthe..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Quiet Rap For Poetry Teachers
Words, they ‘mean’ – just, what they do;and a poem means – just what it does;if it doesn’t do a single thing for you –that’s it, for now; let’s cut..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Public Apology
Public apologies are the new confessional.So here goes.I apologize for not knowing where to start with my apologies.I apologize for being tainted..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Poem, A Thankyou, A Surrender, A Gathering Tear
You know how it is, too?you write a poem, it meansmore than anything to youwhile you’re writing it, and when you’vejust finished it; thenyou tremble..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Poem For November 28,2007
At rest, in peace, and happily,in silence, in stillness, and joyfully,honour yourself. Be yourself.When you honour yourselfyou honour the whole..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Pig Of A Cliché Day
One of those days.Do I need to tell you?Like some invisible burdento do with humanity or somethingpersonal, imagined, no clue,pressing down, tensing..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Piece Of White Flannel About Cricket
Sport is popular. Fine.Sport attracts sponsorship. Fine.Sport becomes showbusiness. mmm.'Pietersen embraced Collingwood on his centurylike a..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Philosopher's Love Poem
putting on one sidethe inconvenient paradoxthat I always seem to beboring old me and yetnever quite myselfI'd like to offer youmy eternal love..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Mireille
Mireille, merveille de poesie,Laborie, qui sans labeurmele notre deux languesd'exploration exquiseen extase mutuelleavec une ardeur telle que..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Flowery Smile, A Smiley Flower
And we need the wisdom of othersfor instance, this weekI'm eating sunflower seed breadand suppose that no-one had told methat just like those cutesy..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Defense Of Bad Poetry
'Naff' comes back as 'cutting-edge'...though dogs may have their day,doggerel may have nine lives...I guess it's here to stay...
©  Michael Shepherd
A Comment On The Ethics Of Millionaire Footballers
' I wuz innocent' he cries,his hands upraised in righteousness,the gun still smoking in his right hand,a handful of his opponent's shirt in his..
©  Michael Shepherd
A Born Crook
Fact: a bright British lad, by name J.Crookhas today been extradited to San Diegounder a 'one-way' treaty with the US (yah boo unfair)to face fraud..
©  Michael Shepherd
A (P) Lea To (P) Oemhunter
O ppoemhunter - hear my pplea:please dropp that ppleonastic p!Suppose your spelling, dropp by droppran PCs short, all crashing, *lo*,and *oets had to..
©  Michael Shepherd
0433 Zen And Travel
In the road, a car.In the car, a poet.In the poet, many poems.What moves? (for Joseph)
©  Michael Shepherd
0432 Zen In The Art Of...
I thought my tire was flat.But it was my heart.I thought my headlights were off.But it was my mind.
©  Michael Shepherd
0431 You Couldn'T Make It Up... I Hope...
Off the coast of Californiawhere elsehornyhead turbotand there's a name for a startwere found to be bisexual withovary tissues in their testesthe..
©  Michael Shepherd
0430 Why War?
when peace is forever,why war?It doesn't lastlike peace.(for Jerry Hughes, poet)
©  Michael Shepherd
0429 Who Doesn'T Love Greatness?
It's one of the world'sgreatest secretsthat shoudn't be:if you recognisean artist's greatness -in any art -it's because you havegreatness in..
©  Michael Shepherd
0428 What Is A Poem?
A wise grandfather, skilled designer,approached with serious concern -to ask 'What is a poem? '...no ready answer - but the questionspoken so..
©  Michael Shepherd
0427 We'D Never Have Guessed..
There’s so muchwe never know,would never have guessed,never asked,and now regret thatwe never asked,about what it was like for ‘them’before we were..
©  Michael Shepherd
0426 Was It A Smile Or A Cry? For Salma
You reminded me, and I dug it out -the snap I've always hated but didn't know why;now you've reminded me and thank you -they know they have to stand..
©  Michael Shepherd
0424 Walking Together
When you arrive, ring then knock,we talk a little and I can feelyou think perhaps you ought to sayhow’s the poetry going thenbut the silent note’s..
©  Michael Shepherd