Best Shiloh Poems

S  avior of the cursed earth
H  eaven sent Dove
I  nterested in you personally
L  over of mankind's soul
O  bedient even unto death
H  elper of man_invite Him in

Based on a name for Jesus
Shiloh__which means peacebringer
Scripture reference Genesis 49:10 ...

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Sad Shiloh trots nervously across the frozen ground, 
Hesitantly, then decidedly, sidling up to a new lady.
At long last has he a loving mistress found?
Will she rescue him from this place, so penned in and shady?

This golden canine, with body thin and coat lackluster,
Places his...

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Valerie Garman entered the world upon the tail-end of the upper-middle class

A place where the schoolgirls were tantalisingly innocent and the men were
Increasingly unbecoming

The sidewalks gleamed and the church bells rang
The winters snowed and the summer birds cooed in unison

The earth was lain with the...

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Her leash and frisbee
Sit high on a shelf, waiting
But no one is coming...
The park down on the corner
Looks abandoned and lonely


    Yet,  there is a place
    Where the sweetest golden girl
    (Shiloh was her name)
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That sandy blond hair, those sky blue eyes.
That smile that made everyone woman sigh.
You captured the essence of that era with such style and grace,
So perfect in that role no one will ever be able to take your place.

All those years every week you came...

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Shooting my classmate’s brother
(that war within a war)
I sat next to him at The Point
still targeting him sure
More than blood will flow this day
memory also dies
As honor sells its soul in vain
— each headstone marks the lie

(Maryville Tennessee: March, 1999)
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