Michael Shepherd Poems

How is it, you great ones,
when I read your poems
whether with
too quick an enchantment
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Do come in. I’m so glad that you came –
it’s good to have someone to
share one’s pleasures and delights with.
Some of my family think I’m
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A poem read.

A reader changed.
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Believe that
with your feelings
and your work
you are taking part in
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As children, lost in worlds grown-ups forget,
pass by some anniversary day unmarked,
then, gently minded, run in childish shame
into the garden, there to seek and bring
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'Whatever that you think you lack - give that! ' -
this saying, heard, lodged in my mind a space;
like seed that seems inert - yet, not inert;
its hidden clock an instrument of grace;
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Strange, to think that each of us
is filled to overflowing
with a treasure house of jewels;
sparkling when they’re known;
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Dearest T…,
Great to hear from you!
I’m glad the hospital didn’t confiscate
your mobile and your laptop
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