Michael Shepherd Poems

You are now too old
to indulge in arrogance

and yet you are too young
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Rumi wrote much about silence.
Does that seem strange?

Poets live with silence:
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...well, yes, I agree the 'Comment' box is for comments - but hold on -
I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry...
yes, growing up in the Bible Belt
must be purgatory with only heaven and hell
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and there was the knocking on the door
that we were expecting
and it was the man
that we were expecting
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What is it, when we mourn and grieve and cry
for those we loved - and love - now passed away,
that gives our pain such brute totality?
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I’m not too proud to say
please write a new poem through me
and I promise not to claim that
I wrote it myself…
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Reader, if it’s the first time that you hit
this site, stretching out like a landscape
as far as the mind may reach – just, we ask,
remember –
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You bought the kit,
couldn’t wait for Mum to clear the table
to spread its bits and pieces out
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