Best Pastoral Poems
From My PorchAfter the end of a long hot day
At the end of my rope with nerves all frayed
I sat on the porch to rest a spell
As the sun slipped slowly behind the hill
Calmed by the lingering after glow
I watched the summer night unfold
Crimson...
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Categories:
summer,
Form:
Pastoral
Stillness in NovemberOver harvested fields —
I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into my bones
Fog an Erebian curtain a Stygian veil
barn swallows following
susurrus secrets of the...
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Categories:
autumn, farm, november,
Form:
Pastoral
An Abc Love SongLeaves have fallen around us throughout these many years
Mist has clouded our eyes with vapors of vast confusion...
No one told us then, how storms might come, how skies would gather tears
Or how the sun would often hide, and seem to disappear
Perhaps those years, might have...
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Categories:
devotion, love,
Form:
Pastoral
God's Kind of PoetryO ever changing sky, blue-gray and maudlin
your mood and unsettled ways, meld with mine.
Clouds seem but blemishes upon horizons
as weary as the soot smudged cheeks of urchins.
Bruised in hues at once fresh with pain and longing,
not yet healed by the riper rise of next day’s...
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Categories:
inspirational, life, nature,
Form:
Pastoral
Immortal Bucolic PaintingHe ran the palm of his hand across the canvas,
Felt its soft, smooth surface, excellent fabric.
It was well primed with gesso, and he was sure
The end result would be an immortal masterpiece
The quintessential fragrance...
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Categories:
appreciation,
Form:
Pastoral
Nd Talking To the StarsI like talking to the stars
They are the best listeners of my wars
Excellent keepers of my secrets
And so we know each others traits
They Comes every night to celebrate their height
Me being an audience lost in their show of light
Stare at them, get connect with them
They...
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Categories:
care, cheer up, friend,
Form:
Pastoral
Urim Ubiquity
Perchance to take nocturnal flight,
where would wayfaring dreams land?
With the toss of a godly lot,
one’s fate is always seraphim certain
The place of destiny divine
remains a mystery to the pillow seeker
Cloud pillars of a dove climb
gives Urim oracle comfort
Leaping crisis hurdles
often causes one to spiritually stumble
Which...
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Categories:
allusion, spiritual, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Pastoral
Harvest - Spoken Word PrayerA prayer for those
Whose lives are thin
And shelves devoid of
Bread and tin.
A stronger prayer
For those who stand
With more than enough
In every hand.
For in God's Kingdom
Love is King
And generosity
The trendy thing.
There is no lack
Or chance despair.
No deprivation.
No hunger there.
In God's town..
No cupboards bare.
No hungry child.
No shadow...
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Categories:
august, blessing, christian, giving,
Form:
Pastoral
-this Is the Day the Lord Gave-THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD GAVE!
Looking out life’s window,
Trying to find out why I am so sad and down.
I don’t blame the Lord for my struggles.
I know strife in life is there.
If I did not live a meaningful existence, life would have no meaning...
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Categories:
baptism, birth, character, devotion,
Form:
Pastoral
Categories:
nature, universe,
Form:
Pastoral
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The wind sighs
and my heart sighs with her:
my only companion, O...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness,
Form:
Pastoral
Along the Shore of EvermoreI STEP down from the boardwalk and into a land moved by the forces of the universe.
I feel the earth move under my feet as I walk on mountains crushed to grains of sand by these forces and the passing of time since the...
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Categories:
beauty, earth, heaven, ocean,
Form:
Pastoral
The Farmers PrayerThe Farmers prayer
Tired days and prosperous nights
Stretching forward like an endless flight,
Towards the hour and through the night
In cascades of energy and bursts of light
My day is drained I long for night,
Give me rest from my toil
The power to rise and till my soil....
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Categories:
prayer,
Form:
Pastoral
The ButterflyThe butterfly, it flutters by,
And yes flutter is the word--
For butterflies don't soar or buzz
Like other bugs, or birds.
They dance upon the summer breeze
As they flit about the air--
For a garden sweet, is incomplete
Lest butterflies are there.
But who knows whence they travel,
And who knows...
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Categories:
butterfly, nature,
Form:
Pastoral
Moonlight On the CountrysideFrom deep beyond the canyon rim,
Appearing at first night;
The moon appears upon a whim
And relays its borrowed light.
Then rising there above the knoll,
Through wisps of misty white;
The moonlight falls as flakes of snow
Upon the countryside.
~M...
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Categories:
beauty, moon, nature, night,
Form:
Pastoral