Michael Shepherd Poems

Surfacing from deep sleep, that moment
when the disciplined get up immediately,
the self-motivated can’t wait to get on doing their life,
the blest open their eyes with praise upon their lips,
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This poem
was about to speak to you
assuming that there is a you right there and now
but
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for no real poem has a first line
any more than a real book
has a first page
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O ppoemhunter - hear my pplea:
please dropp that ppleonastic p!

Suppose your spelling, dropp by dropp
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The poem said

read me
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There has to be a reason:
dogs bite postmen.

It's not just that they jump up the sofa to the window
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“People say
I’ll find a better guy,
but I’m starting to think that
everyone’s pretty much a mess.
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It's days when you've got lots to do -
the Muse, she puts a phone call through...

You're back at work, and short of time -
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My wife is having
a relationship with
the bank manager
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