Michael Shepherd Love Poems

Oh it's so easy to say -

'Give what you think you lack -
You feel unloved? Then give love, and love, and love...'...
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so there you are in
your pram or kiddikarria
nicely tucked up,
being talked to in that
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I love you.

That's it, really.
all there is to say.
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They were young lovers, and seated at the table in the window;
where in Paris they'd be watching
the passers-by watching them...
but no.
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Loneliness, anxiety, and despair,
isolation, sorrow, bitterness -
these the cruel concerns, observers note,
that press upon our current consciousness.
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and right now, I’m spending most of my time
on the two matters of which I seem to know the least –
love; and poetry.
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Two lovers in an inner room withdrawn,
and speaking much of love, as one to one;
and yet their speech so ardent in its truth,
not sound but rather silence seems to reign.
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Love is life. Life is love.
Everything I understand,
I understand only because
I love.
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**** YOU!
you've wrecked my supposed self-esteem

maybe when I'm older i'll know what self-esteem is
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Oh I am so fortunate.
In the past and in the present.

We fell in love, and loved
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No sorrow
Tomorrow

Keep grief
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Light. Lightness. Light-heartedness.
Who can measure their measureless weight?

On the kitchen scales, we balance
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putting on one side
the inconvenient paradox
that I always seem to be
boring old me and yet
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How dare you dump me just like that...?
before I'd even considered dumping you...
if I'd know you were the dumping kind
i'd've dumped you first.
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There are poems that I envy,
poems that I admire and respect,
poems that simply sing to me,
poems that I puzzle over…
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The Indians say
that the eater is the eaten.

We caught each other's eye
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As butterflies with beauty grace the air,
so love cannot be lazy in its love;
true love brings lovely energies to bear;
love's actions grace the true contemplative.
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I want everyone to know

yeah?
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What are the inward signs of truest love,
beyond the smile, the kiss, the touch of hand,
that joins our actions to the heaven above;
that constant love which shall for ever stand?
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As we know
(or like to think we do)

There are known knowns
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Celandine, saxifrage,
buttercup, needle whin,
tormentil, vetchling,
agrimony, cinquefoil,
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The wise love wisely.

It’s said, that when the truly wise
surface from their sleep,
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Small-town romantics
once might live in fear:
demon lovers, married,
or didn't live near...
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Wilfrid Chin Sue says that poetry
is about ‘about’, and thank you Wilf
for that, and thanks too from us poets all
to e.e.cummings for reminding us
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When did you cease to love, then hate, yourself?
What terrible event? How long ago?
What slight misunderstanding, view of self,
that led to fading love, then bitter hate?
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Of God Himself can no man truly think;
Creator He, beyond all human thought;
yet questing intellect oft scans the brink
of what of Him may yet, in truth, be sought;
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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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Honey,
i wanted to write you a real blaster
so i looked in 'Writers' Weekly'
and sent off for 'Freshen Up Your Love Poems'
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Hopes die;
dreams fall;
and, subtlest stroke of all,
love sharply, cruelly, hides her face,
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When those you most love
die
that's the time to speak in praise of love
(said Saint Valentine) .
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The eyes, it's said, are windows of the soul;
and when I see your eyes so sparkling bright,
I see there beauty, truth and goodness; all
as one; the radiance of an inner light.
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Because I love you so,

sometimes it's loving someone;
sometimes it's loving anyone;
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To be is to love.
To love is to be.

Roll these life sentences
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How can I COMPUTE love’s DATABASE?
Thus WATCH as saintly love, God IN THE END,
INCHes its way into immortal life’s ASSURANCE
in the seeming OYSTER of my heart?
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Waking in the dream-tossed night, I knew you harmed
a thousand miles away in suffering’s dark storm;

so only love
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We do not have to seek for love
nor fear it ever go:
but simply, rest within ourself;
then, love perforce must flow:
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Thanks to the hundreds of you who daily
are so eager to enhance my life
and that of my partner
with pills and extensions
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Plato would have favoured
That internet dating site -
All ideal and Platonic
('til that risky meeting night...)
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When those you most love
die
that's the time to speak in praise of love
(said Saint Valentine) .
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Dearest T…,
Great to hear from you!
I’m glad the hospital didn’t confiscate
your mobile and your laptop
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When first I saw you, I saw but your face;
and felt for you, no more nor less
than others of the human race;
you were as other; that I must confess;
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It's one of the world's
greatest secrets
that shoudn't be:
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even before

you write
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Law of love? Sounds good… so, tell me more…
Love of law? mmm…maybe…not so sure…

You can disregard the ancients –
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The universe, a single act of love,
it’s said; and ever so, then, must remain;
is never other; has no place for hate,
save in the minds and hearts of less than men..
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Love said,
I made you

Your body was conceived in love.
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When everything is said, my love,
there’s only love to say;
and though love’s word can not be said,
and love will live when we are dead,
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Who today would praise
consciousness itself,
which brings new life and thought
every morning, opening
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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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