Michael Shepherd Teacher Poems

I wish I’d known him better.
But our respect for him was such
that you only spoke to him
when you needed to.
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I bumped into my grandson's English teacher yesterday
at the football, and in between shouting like teenagers
I moaned about the state of A's Eng. Lit. not to mention Eng. Lang. -
you know, you've heard it all before... in my day.....never regretted....
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She so loved Him
was so beloved of Him
that He spoke to her and said
my beloved
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bumped into my grandson's English teacher yesterday
at the football, and in between shouting like teenagers
I moaned about the state of A's Eng. Lit. not to mention Eng. Lang. -
you know, you've heard it all before... in my day.....never regretted....
...

This peach
that I’ve just eaten,
been graced by,
been blessed by,
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Even before the question put,
they’re full of quiet attention; something
is already being listened to.. makes
that space, in which a question
...

You know that shot, in films and musicals
glamorising La Révolution Francaise:
a hundred metres away, just fitting into
the camera’s breadth of range,
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