Michael Shepherd Thanks Poems

When stillness
walked into the room
there was no need
to greet you
...

You
wrote a poem

I read it
...

The older couple who've set down
their folding chairs, a blanket, lunchbox

not too far from the old Lincoln
...

All around the world,
poems are talking among themselves
when the books are shut,
when the computers are switched off,
...

The ancient sage, beset with too many thoughts
for one human lifetime,
chooses carefully the place to sit
beside the lake,
...