Michael Shepherd Words Poems

To know the impossible to be impossible
and yet to love the attempt;
to demonstrate that beauty is eternal, yet
seen only in that moment now,
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I dreamt I flew as ibis fly
o'er sand and palm and sunny Nile
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We throw them to the winds;
like water from a shower;
what wind? what shower? and who throws them to whom?
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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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Only recently, you asked me
for my ‘Laws’ – as if you asked the Sun
just where his golden rays shall, in the moment, strike…
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and that day
eighty words woke up, listened to each other,
smiled, joined hands,
danced in a ring
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There were monkeys everywhere;
all with badges gently velcroed to their coats –
‘Supervisor’; ‘IT operative’; ‘Catering’;
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and after so long, a new poem from you
and when I said how glad I was

you messaged back
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