Best Shepard Poems

The day Will Shepard shot my dog
His barn burned to the soil;
The flames licked at the Autumn sky,
The smoke as black as oil.
I dropped the...

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"Seventeen Years"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

In my younger years, satan had the tightest clinch upon my Soul
I was headed to destruction, but, then, my heart...

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I walk upon the earth with my pup
No one is in sight they are all closed up
Tight within their homes with flight and fear 
From...

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The fruit of life,
I eat today,
Far from the flock, 
I will not stray,
Greener pastures ,
Without my Shepard,
I will not stray,
I will not be tempted,
I will...

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Resurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing...

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Oh how he watches me in the shadow of his tree,
strong, bold and blocking out the glare of the sun.
He claims I shine like the...

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All things being equal, as they are upon this day,
The time of light and that of dark equivalent of span,
We sat upon the beaten bench...

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Sportin' a wrap on one foot
A hard grimace set on his jaw
A Beagle walked in, holdin a grudge
Because somebody shot his paw!

He growled, "Pour me...

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Walking side by with Jesus Christ.
Walking in footsteps.  Walking
in his footsteps every day.

Walking side by side with the
Son of Man. Listening and
learning his life's...

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Oh! Please fear not for I am with thee.
How much I dearly do love thee.
Promising you to never leave.
nor forsake thee.  And
Lo I am...

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Waves of the sea of darkness
Break …. Break … Break
against cotton cloud rocks,
and heighten my loneliness.  

Calves that hopped around,
and bulls that smelled the...

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Line after line
Round after round
Empty shells 
Fall to the ground

City after city
Mound after mound
To collapse
Without a sound

Wrist after wrist
Clang of shackles ring 
Closing veins
Soon to...

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"Though my actions, sometimes selfish and oppressive on the surface, inevitably land myself in a pit of dispair, yet for those of my supposed oppressors,...

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It's the same truth in the dark,
willows, wallows and parks...

Determining for our destiny those wild cracks in the fading parts...

Yes we know time but also...

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Be still and know that I am God

Be still and know that I am God
A God that can deliver
And give you Joy like a river

Be...

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