Michael Shepherd Poems

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0257 When The Heart Melts

sometimes,
some wonder times,
I read a poem here and
instantly want, because
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462.
Ignore The Ad Above This Poem

I deeply resent
the ad above this poem
(well it was there
last time I looked)
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463.
0243 The Second Coming

This first August week, the geraniums
are flowering their second flush:
they braved last winter, huddled like cabbage stalks
so as to be inconspicuous
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464.
0008 A Ghazal About Ghazals

A poet friend spoke of a poetic form called a ghazal
and said, why don’t you try to write a poem like a ghazal?

They’ve been revived in recent years in English, in fact
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465.
! Synecdoche

Darling, we need to talk...
no not here and now; in private..
it's about synecdoche...
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466.
! The Present Is A Present, So Be Present

Always, behind the known,
the greater unknown…

behind the tedious Latin translation,
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467.
Freshen Up Your Love Poems

Honey,
i wanted to write you a real blaster
so i looked in 'Writers' Weekly'
and sent off for 'Freshen Up Your Love Poems'
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468.
! ! The Wasted Landing - Thoughts From An Airport Strike

In the hour of our departure O Lord
In our beginning is our end
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469.
! In The Spirit Of Rumi - 26

To My Beloved I said
‘When I am away from you, O Beloved,
out in the market place of this world,
I remember that I have forgotten
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470.
! ! Kabir Reading 'Kabir'

See this fine manuscript
so beautifully illuminated round the picture –

why, it’s none other than Kabir!
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