Michael Shepherd Poems

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581.
0305 Dylan (2)

I search the depths of my soul for an answer
but there is no answer
because there is no question
and there is no time
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582.
0108 Today I Read A Poem

just now, today
and for a moment, thus
forever,
the heaviness of devil-darkened thought,
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583.
0227 Soap Opera

The Hebrew language
has such sacred power
that you shouldn't sing it
in the bath or shower.
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584.
0364 Poetry Reads; Poetry Speaks

It’s like an adult version of a parlour game, isn’t it?
a sorta cross between a single-handed game of patience
and a crossword puzzle where the guy who set the puzzle
is always a step at least ahead of you dammit
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585.
0009 Favorite Poem

and you can’t remember much
about the first time you read it except
that it held you to the end, but most of all
this one line, which seemed to hold
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586.
0004 M I N D

and mind might ask,
why then are brain cells gray? Is it
because the world is just
so wonderful, that they, stunned
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587.
0016 Fathers, Sons, And Families

and next to the world of heavenly gods,
the world of ancestors…

when ageing Indian fathers heard the call
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588.
0009 Cole Porter Hits The Chatsites

Frat boy,
bratboy,
innuendo chat-boy,
why do girlies fall for you?
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589.
! The Poetry Student

Wonder
is a philosopher
is a poet
looks with awe
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590.
! Prufrock Agonistes

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