! This Poem.. Poem by Michael Shepherd

! This Poem..

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This poem
was about to speak to you
assuming that there is a you right there and now
but
hesitated, a little unsure of itself

this poem
though all ready to be
a bouncy, Tiggerish, extravert sort of poem
is going instead to take a quiet moment for
introspection

this poem
remembers that computers are essentially
binary – built up of millions of yes-no choices
so

this poem
is above all,
yes;
hoping
in still a Tiggerish way, to hear you also, say
yes

this poem
finds that it has
certain hidden desires
which it rightly or wrongly
was going to lay on you
like

this poem
would like to tell you
something new which
you might or might not believe
until some time later
when you’d say
yes!

this poem
would like to touch your heart
(impertinently assuming
you might need aortic massage)
so that when you finished reading it,
you’d say
yes!

this poem
presumptuously
would like to enable you to
see the whole world with fresh eyes,
as if never before,
be the first day
of Creation for the
rest of your life
so that you'd say
yes yes yes

this poem
would love to
be Irish, throw magical, spellbinding words round you
like two hands throwing wild flowers
over you in a summer meadow,
looking into your eyes, laughing, kissing,
dancing over the green hills to blue skies hand in hand
enchanted with a life you’d passing forgotten,
always known, while time
is eternity and
you and I and all things are
yes, yes, yes and
yes

this poem
at this point
introspectively with a touch of humility
thinks
maybe it’s sufficient, purer,
just to want to
pass you in the street,
smile right into your eyes
maybe shake hands, even
kiss both cheeks how ever many times
and know that without necessarily
saying anything
the answer’s
yes

this poem
hopes it’s made its point
without mentioning
love or other well-known,
complicated things like that and
moreover it’s gone on long enough
because

this poem loves
what happens in silence
what happens in stillness
and just wanted to say

yes?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Scarlett Treat 10 September 2006

THIS POEM - Yes, Yes! A thousand times yessssssssss! !

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Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr 10 September 2006

For a Poem with the effloressence of a Rose, its ask is of a mere dandelion... A simple 'YES', and all will be fulfilled...Kind of like asking for we all to get along, and desist with the mayhem, that this Earth has endured since T-Rex ate tree-tops before he sang'JEEPSTER'...YES, Michael..YES, YES! I've got it all now...Sometimes it takes so little to produce so much...YES? Superb Write, good friend...Have a Happy Sunday! '''''''''''''''''FRANK

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Yes.

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Alison Cassidy 12 September 2006

This poem is...............

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Geoff Warden 10 September 2006

This poem has me saying YYYEEESSS! ! ! let us start again YES......Great rite Mike

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Anna Russell 10 September 2006

The wonderful thing about this poem is this poem's a wonderful thing! Hugs Anna xxx

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Tailor Bell 10 September 2006

quite enjoyable read conveying a sense of conveyance. -Tailor B.

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