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Michael Shepherd

Marton, Lancashire

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Marton, Lancashire

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If the words are good and true,
it’s as if the centre of all things
fires and fills; informs the heart;
the heart, the chest and lungs;
the lungs, the unhesitating throat;
space fills the head and voice:

and then, no longer pupil,
but the teacher of the world;
hearing from the centre of that sound
that sound itself may bring about all things.

Michael Shepherd

Sunday, June 15, 2008

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Joseph Daly 15 June 2008

Don't take this as a negative, but there is something Victorian about the narrative of this, Mike. Yet the form gives the theme a freshness. There is also something ironic in the poem opening with the word 'If' as it does have a modern day Kipling feel to it. 'and then, no longer pupil, / but the teacher of the world; ' is a stunning line.

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