Michael Shepherd Poems

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541.
! The Two On The Road

In later years, this day came back to you
as days of presence often do:

It’s the end of the midday break, and
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542.
! The Secret, Treasured World Of Metaphor

True, I can rhyme – endwords, and inner too;
fangle fine assonance, like thought made new;
march to a metre –regular in tread
or cunningly disjointed – silken, the thread
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543.
0143 Coming To A Retirement Home Near You...

Stop me if...

The story is,
The Queen visited our local
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544.
! Some Other Poet, Some Other Poetry

and yes, since we can all dream
some other life – but do not, cannot,
dream its divergences, its accidents,
its departures and arrivals,
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545.
! ! Your Self: From Plotinus' 'Enneads' 6.3

Seeing yourself - at last – so beautiful:
cease, at last, that vision to deny!
What then, to see in your so glorious self?
What qualities shine out upon the world?
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546.
0309 Eeyore's View Of The State Of The Nation

If you build a great nation
on the statement
‘In God we trust’
and then proceed
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547.
0057 Strict Tempo - A Poem To Dance To

One Two Three Four
One Two Three Four
Forwards. Sideways.
Sideways. Back...
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548.
Hermaphrodite

I'd seen her in the pub from time to time -
shortish height, slightly awkward jerky movements
not quite to be called boyish
like her haircut,
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549.
Found Poem 1: Julie Joins Poemhunter

hey babe, it's your girl julie ;)

Want to tell you that so far
i'm having a great summer,
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550.
0262 With A Hey And A Ho And An Oh What The Hell

in the spring
an old man's fancy
lightly turns to
thoughts of
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