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Lean Harvests

Lean Harvests
by Michael R. Burch

for T.M.

the trees are shedding their leaves again:
another summer is over.
the Christians are praising their Maker again,
but not the disconsolate plover:
i hear him berate
the fate
of his mate;
he claims God is no body’s lover.

Published by The Rotary Dial and Angle

Keywords/Tags: Christian, Christians, Christianity, Hymn, Hymns, Praise, Worship, Faith, Belief, Believer, Believers, God, Jesus Christ, Maker, Creator, Almighty, Summer, Trees, Autumn, Fall, Leaves, Skeptic, Atheist, Agnostic, Nonbeliever, Heretic, Death, Grave, Grief, Despair

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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