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Michael Shepherd (8.4.1929 / Marton, Lancashire)
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! A Platonic Reminiscence of a Great Lady

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  Someone mentioned your name yesterday
and I was silent

You loved goodness, you were goodness,
and I think goodness must have
loved you; and we,
we loved you for your goodness

You loved truth, spoke truth,
and surely the truth
loved you for loving it; and how
we loved to hear you
speaking truth

You loved beauty in
so many ways that beauty
blessed you: in movement,
in actions, in thought, in words and yes
the beauty of goodness and
the beauty of truth shone from you –
how could we not love you
beyond you?

How often in this poem to you
the word love appears
as it did
in you

Michael Shepherd


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  Ashraful Musaddeq  (9/18/2008 3:14:00 AM)

An excellent poem, love it.10 for it.
  Fay Slimm  (8/21/2008 9:32:00 AM)

Helping us to see we can indeed love the attibutes which we are shown by beautiful people in many situations. Unforgettable piece. Love to you - you beautiful man. Thank you.
  Bob Blackwell  (6/21/2008 9:30:00 AM)

Michael, a beautiful poem about what must have been a lovely lady, who had the qualitites we all should live by. Bob
  Tsira Gogeshvili  (2/25/2008 12:45:00 PM)

' Someone mentioned your name yesterday
and I was silent...'
It is Beauty feeling, fine expressions... Kindest regards, Tsira
  Roger Cornish  (2/20/2008 1:19:00 AM)

Again... Again....Again...

Your Poetry is shining a light for me!
Rogerx
  Michael Shepherd  (12/27/2007 7:35:00 AM)

There's a story now to this poem: I wrote it of one lady who had died not long before, and sent it to another splendid lady who knew her well... the second lady was deeply moved by it, recalling how those in her own family had taught her these qualities...Not long after, she died suddenly herself. Her surviving family found the poem on her computer and her response to it, and asked me if her nephew could read it as a tribute at her funeral...which he did, superbly in heartfelt fashion, and to great effect.. what a wonderful life for a poem..
  Alison Cassidy  (6/10/2006 2:15:00 AM)

Michael, you lucky lad. Lisa for a tutor. How important are those special mentors of our youth and what lasting impressions they leave behind. You have described her with great love and humility. Thank you. lol, Alison
  Scarborough Gypsy  (2/18/2006 1:14:00 AM)

Yes, this is a lovely poem and I agree with Nibedita about the opening lines too.

Thanks
Gyp's
  not on poemhunter anymore  (2/12/2006 8:14:00 AM)

i concur with Gina's critique. somehow you pulled it off.

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