Michael Shepherd Poems

Did you see today's news headline?
'Swedes Beam Poetry into Outer Space'
it takes 25 years to get to Vega
and the review comes back 50 years after writing it.
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One in three of us, the stats say, lives alone. Sad;
but fine if you prefer it that way.

It's late at night. You're alone. The PC off at last. The TV off.
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A sightseeing phoenix a sign espied:
'This way to the Phoenix Museum';
A little homesick, went inside;
Looked for friends; but couldn't see 'em.
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In the spirit of the season
I'm working on a big-hearted,
multi-faith, inter-faith, lack-of-faith
religiously correct yet thinking outside the box (6 x 2)
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So often, poets
with their poetic eyes,
ears, minds, hearts, souls,
record actions that
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You put up with it because
as tiresome as it is, and as they can sometimes be,
somewhere there, there's always love.
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you come from a family that –
well, I’ve known better and,
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Suppose it said – and, yes
it has been said, that
you were made to be
as much the same, as God,
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That’s the word we use
for the abrupt suddenness
of the old rubber-squeezed car horn
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I was born to be a metaphor;
Darwin, embarrassed, did not talk of me;
I did not fit into his scheme of things; I,
knowing secrets of the tears of things,
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