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Michael Shepherd (8.4.1929 / Marton, Lancashire)
Poems of Michael Shepherd
| 1641. | The Unwise Wise | 11/16/2006 |
| 1642. | There once was a poet of Ireland, a bore an' a pest... | 9/20/2005 |
| 1643. | There's hope for hypocrites... | 8/25/2007 |
| 1644. | These poems | 10/26/2009 |
| 1645. | Theses, faeces, syntheses | 5/1/2007 |
| 1646. | Things Encyclopaedias don't tell you | 2/10/2006 |
| 1647. | Thinks - Sphinx? | 8/16/2006 |
| 1648. | those wild pink salmon | 7/11/2006 |
| 1649. | Thought for Today | 4/17/2005 |
| 1650. | Thoughts On World Poetry | 6/10/2005 |
| 1651. | through a glass darkly | 3/10/2007 |
| 1652. | Time, Perhaps | 7/7/2007 |
| 1653. | to a fellow poet, RMW | 11/17/2004 |
| 1654. | To an almost unknown poet as of now | 7/18/2005 |
| 1655. | To be the Veda | 6/5/2008 |
| 1656. | To HN: a nonsense rhyme for a troublous time | 5/1/2006 |
| 1657. | To Joyce and blue jays everywhere | 2/13/2005 |
| 1658. | To JRR Tolkien and Christopher | 11/30/2004 |
| 1659. | To Linda Smith | 3/1/2006 |
| 1660. | To Mary Ruefle, poet | 12/1/2006 |
Sonnet and Sonata
May sonnet ever match sonata form?
whose opening movement catches restless mind;
whose new and ever-fresh harmonious sound
puts spark in eye and ear, and feet on ground;
then, slower movement, drawing us to still peace,
takes mind within to where all movements cease;
murmuring all that inner nature knows,
restoring to our self its true repose.
