Best Shepherdess Poems

A shepherdess with a lamb to her breast
Against a dry stone wall on a windy hill
She cradles it with love so truly blessed

Over steep Welsh hills they roam best
Hardy hill sheep bred to wander at will  
A shepherdess with a lamb to her breast

Long...

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Never trust a shepherdess
Although she may look pretty
Beneath her lacy frilly dress
A heart beats without pity.

There’s furtive tales of Miss Bo Peep
Told behind closed doors
And just what happened to her sheep
Upon those silent moors

They never did return, you see
Though many tried to find them
They disappeared...

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As xanthic grows the tender wheat
she splays her flock on country lane
while basil floats the sultry heat
and shyly whispers timid grain.

She splays her flock on country lane
by jade of idle burnished grass,
and shyly whispers timid grain
in azure as the breezes pass.

By jade of idle burnished...

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O’ Fair shepherdess! What a misery swept!
A lover, a selfless lover you have lost
Why don’t you speak? You haven’t yet wept.
Thus the shepherdess replied, “It’s not my fault”

His death hasn’t moved you, shame!
You are unmoved by the loss of your lover
You treat him as if...

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Linseed oil wash
Light strokes show her virgin blush
Forever a flirt


By Robb A. Kopp...

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The Wind Shepherdess

The wind,
 Like a shepherdess,
Gathers misty spindrift;
 Heaven’s lambs
From azure fields
 Where they pasture
Viewing paradise         
 In meadows without edges;
Gliding effortless 
 In pastoral symphonies....

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The Wind Shepherd and Shepherdess

The winds,
 Like a shepherd and shepherdess,
Herd blackness,
 In swirling ghosts -
Mysteries rising
 From wastelands of wildness
Casting veils of gloom,
 Haunted by thunder,
Trying to stampede -
 Corralling tumbleweeds....

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Blue faded.
The same horizon, the same clouds
changed by brushes from an impressionist painter.
The lavender sky blushes 
and the crest of the cheery trees beams
as the wind hums, enticing belated bumblebees.
Twigs rattle waking a little shepherdess bellow. 
Amber eyes browse the dusky glen.

She whistles, summoning her...

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