Michael Shepherd Hope Poems

Off the coast of California
where else
hornyhead turbot
and there's a name for a start
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Hopes – that soar –
like kites in wind -
above the truth –
with wishes – twisting
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to the joyless:
it’s out there
somewhere
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Joy
gets a bad press
from poets and divines –
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Yes, there’s hope for hypocrites –

hypocrite poets, who write
from the goodness of their hearts
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You – whose inner strength, I always think
to be the greater than my fluctuating own –
ask, only half humorously, as
business, family support, collapses all around,
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