Michael Shepherd Poems

no, it’s beyond words.

say a word your word
if you need,
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November, I’m almost ready now
to take you on:
every year
you throw all that you can at me –
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Mary Mary Magdalene,
what do all those stories mean?

Mary, Mary, is it true,
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Pithy, precise,
wry, wise,
flinty, real,
democratic,
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Just as we prepare to celebrate
the season of sparkling white and winter fuel,
piss on earth and extended drinking hours
there steals a hooded headline
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The iconic (damn, I swore I’d
never use that word..)
red London bus
was designed by the lively minded
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It’s such fun spotting them –
this should be built into the syllabus
of every English class: to con the cons;
sharpens the mind, too –
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Did you notice
as you put the nozzle back in place
after filling your tank today,
a drop, of oil, of gasoline, of petrol
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Buy a child's red-covered
'My Exercise Book'
like the one you bought
all those years ago
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I love to see the daffodils,
they're just so very yellow.
In jugs upon the window-sills
they make me feel so mellow!
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