Michael Shepherd Poems

I am overwhelmed
by the abundance
in my poverty;
the riches that I find
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The central aisle – more, an asphalted roadway –
of Brompton Cemetery would be hard to beat.
It’s no Forest Lawns, Pere Lachaise, but great
for passing trade, of all peculiar sorts – a
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You are now too old
to indulge in arrogance

and yet you are too young
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Rumi wrote much about silence.
Does that seem strange?

Poets live with silence:
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...well, yes, I agree the 'Comment' box is for comments - but hold on -
I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry...
yes, growing up in the Bible Belt
must be purgatory with only heaven and hell
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and there was the knocking on the door
that we were expecting
and it was the man
that we were expecting
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What is it, when we mourn and grieve and cry
for those we loved - and love - now passed away,
that gives our pain such brute totality?
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