Michael Shepherd Friends Poems

They’re trained to do the work of love
dispassionately
as if they are the most loving friends
that you could ever have
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Loss can be good for us,
researchers say (Nolen-Hoeksema
and Davis,2002) – it’s called
Post-Traumatic Growth…
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Yes, it’s a photo of the three of them –
it’s not so often I can get them all together;
they’re so much in demand…
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Not the sad face of sadness;
not its weariness, nor its lack of hope;
but why sadness visits, and what it intends:
what the secret blessings that it brings…
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