Michael Shepherd Poems

and though there are places, times,
when you are most likely to find it
there in your heart,
there in front of your eyes –
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i'm intrigued by the ur-poem
by allan j saywell
entitled grunt
which is
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Epictetus the stoic philosopher said
that anyone who angers you becomes your master
by disturbing you;
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Dear Will,

How are things out there?
just thought you'd like to know,
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So many are reluctant, in their speech,
to make referral to the name of God;
as if to speak thus is to overreach
what may by human mind be understood.
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It was about seven years
after her breakdown
which she could not remember, and
which I could not forget
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Krishna passed that mountain many times;
and yet his followers observed that day
that all his mind was filled with fresh delight
as if he'd never walked, nor seen, that way;
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Oh I am so fortunate.
In the past and in the present.

We fell in love, and loved
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Language is a blessing and a curse –
sometimes uniting, sometimes dividing,
sometimes an arrow, sometimes blown blossoms,
misplaced seeds..
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She was so proud to have 'bagged' him -
he'd toured the world on Dad's business;
he'd 'squired'
(that's the word we use -
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