Best Herder Poems

Murder of a Sheep Herder

On a tall cross that had a girder
They caused what was to be murder
Of Son of God our sheep herder.

Jim Horn...

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The Herder

Words are racing by as a yacht making blue water white.
Should I now think in nautical terms, say, a bad seascape
painting of crested waves,...

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The wind herds
the brown-paper bag leaves
pell-mell along the river of asphalt.
Gusts whip bare branches into a frenzy.
Mini cyclones scatter street rubble.
Flags whack poles with great...

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Jesus, you say bring home my sheep
You say be a shepherd like perfect You
I say my sheep have gone prodigal
They have my credit card, I...

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Mohamed and Khaled
The best butcher shop in town
In the deception of silence
they butcher those with sound

Voices against their Kingdom
they fear and do not like
Raping their...

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THE OLD COVERED BRIDGE

Late fall
Country scene
One birch, close by, already bare
With a taste of frost in the air
And this sturdy, old, covered bridge – this...

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I scorn thee, Puberty!  Damn thee as well,
Thou abominable herder of shame,
Will thou findeth glee by my told sarspell?
I beseech thee of ineffable name,
Rendereth...

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cyberpork
a found poem using contemporary computer slang


sludge solution
grok it
nerf sword nerf herder
sock puppet astroturf
bluesnarf
cupertinoeffect 
the crawling horror 
conscious agents 
of our own delight and distraction
streisand...

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The Cowboy 

In Texas they love football and cowboys, not your ordinary 
cowboys mind, the ones who herd the cattle to slaughter,
but those who walk...

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I stood in the door way of this cinema town
A punch to my head and a fall to the ground

Staggered back up to my feet...

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while all stars were wishing
and some were wished upon ~
one star obeys

humble and bright
lit especially by
the sheep herder of lights

11/23/2021
Syllables - 6/6/4 4/6/6...

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Jesse lived in my hometown                    ...

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Brad is admin of the Writers' Group on Facebook...
  
A kindly sword and savage pen
Are the marks of a writer and leader of men
Blessed...

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Various Heresies 5

Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch

July 7,2007 (7-7-7)

Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples,...

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back at the Arab Spring
and now a Wall Street Fall
citizens of foundering faith
just wanna change it all

believing in a higher purpose
is passing the way of...

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