Michael Shepherd Poems

Jack Kerouac
thought to track
the real America
on the road
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Philosophy
means, from the Greek,
the love of wisdom;
I'd like to think
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So many bees, who know so much
that only bees can tell,
gave their life’s devotion
to this single source of light;
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Tenderly
with its soft leaves
the tree shaded the poet
as he wrote
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All is in the mind and in the heart:
there are no empires and no entities,
nought can be owned and nought possessed,
in mind nor heart; our parents, partners, kith and kin
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Seen from the back as
they walk along the dusty summer road, with
the sheep straying onto the verges where
a tuft of more succulent grass may linger
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It's mealtime. You knock
on her door with just the right degree of respect
that behoves a parent to their child;
this she will always notice and require.
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It's one of the world's
greatest secrets
that shoudn't be:
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Their wives were not too keen about it all:
beyond the call of duty, so it seemed;
for, if they read the heavens' portents so well,
what need of proof, of presence at the scene?
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