Michael Shepherd Poems

Love Love Love

Oh it's so easy to say -

'Give what you think you lack -
You feel unloved? Then give love, and love, and love...'...... more »

! A Grief Ago

'There is no grief
which time does not lessen
or soften' -
so said Cicero, a man so often right;... more »

! Metaphor

A pretty girl
is like a simile
and vice-a-versa
so I'd say... more »

! A Wish

I'd like to write - like grown-up poets do:
with similes that span the universe,
that sparkle, crackle, dazzle, woo the mind;
and touch the heart with tender, swoony verse...... more »

! Baby Love, Maybe Love

so there you are in
your pram or kiddikarria
nicely tucked up,
being talked to in that... more »

! An Angry Poem About Peace

This is an angry poem.
About those weasel phrases
which blow like paper in the street
going nowhere,... more »

! A Poet

He — or was it she?
was a child who said little
but walked, endlessly, just looking... more »

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