Michael Shepherd Poems

I’m walking down the street
and I hear the sculptor in his house
working on his statue of Krishna
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...so the next week
I thought, why not bring
these rather fine elements together
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Do you wish to know what is your 'soul',
in all its glory, and its whole estate?
To know if it knows but a part, or All?
Its birth; its growth, its life - or lives; its fate?
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The height and depth and length and breadth of God -
that's what is promised to contemplatives:
and God, the sphere whose centre's everywhere
and whose circumference is nowhere found:
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The name means
wisdom. Perhaps
we should leave it there. For
the human mind loves
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Black and white are the magic of the drama
in the world of film;
gray, the poetry –
silver-gray of Paris; sunshine gray;
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I think of you more often nowadays, I don’t know why;
how is it now with you?
And are you still somewhere – if you ever were -
that I might talk to you?
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'Your only enemy

is yourself'...
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(to the tune of The Blue Danube)


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