Michael Shepherd Smile Poems

Are you ashamed of your tiny smile?
Does it make you embarrassed?
Does it limit your social life?
Wouldn’t you like to draw all the chicks,
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Suppose a smile.

Suppose it always, with a smile.
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It’s said, that when our mind
awakes, out of that sweetest place
in which it sleeps, rests, is refreshed;
in the morning; or in those
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You reminded me, and I dug it out -
the snap I've always hated but didn't know why;
now you've reminded me and thank you -
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It’s like those Russian dolls:
inside the teenager
is the rebel;
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He smiled … it was as if I’d never seen
a smile before; as if, that moment, God
invented smiles; as if there’d never been
a reason for a gift that was so good…
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And we need the wisdom of others
for instance, this week
I'm eating sunflower seed bread
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