Michael Shepherd Poems

...who or which is the main topic of this site
in any season, let alone this one in the Northern hemisphere,
as the hormones stir a young man's fancy
and an old man's mind...
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I believe with William Morris
that there should be nothing in the house
which is not known to be useful
or seen to be beautiful.
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As some sun-ripened vineyard-owner, rich
in slow maturing wisdom gained through time,
before that noble rot of trodden grape
yields untold harvest of a well lived life-
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We're living just as the century begins.

A great leaf, that God and we
shall cover with our writing
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Allah the Just, the Merciful.

That must be so
otherwise human beings
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Let's not go into the matter of that
dark wood in our back garden which
shames us in the eyes of our
prissy neighbours (we call it
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This is the meadow.
It slopes from bright South
down to the West and North
from the primroses in the southern hedge
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