Michael Shepherd Poems

The great Hamburg football team
is to lay out a cemetery for supporters
next to its pitch – in the form, of course,
of another pitch whose grass
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I will create you,
I shall name you;
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Suppose a smile.

Suppose it always, with a smile.
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Whenever we’re nearest to one in ourselves –
that’s when they’re most likely to be seen:
as we step out from the trees
into the gently sunlit glade, moss under hoof and foot,
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It takes all sorts to make a world, they say
(how do 'they' know anyway?) :
but it certainly looks like that here this sunny day:
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I went round the keyboard-type shops
But they only stocked qwertyuiop s...
Well, I ask you - if we
Can't read straight, ABC
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Rose-pink, glowing, tiny hands and toes,
the magic of perfection brought to life -
if we can think beyond that self-same glow,
how may we help your passage through this life?
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and brought back with her

the first few primroses she did not pick
tucked neat into the hedgerow
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'It seems from time to time - if not always -
that all that stands between my present self,
and what I hope to be, is...just myself...'
'But you are not the trouble - you're the cure! '
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Prosody:
it’s about - it means - what poetry does,
and how. I guess..
In Greek, it just means ‘tune’. That
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