TANABATA by the Milky Way
...blessed maiden by the stream
weaving raiments from the stars
apple of her father's eye
full of charm and grace
there lived one across the bank
across where the princess weaved
steering oxen t...
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Categories:
cowherd, fantasy, longing, lost love,
Form: Dodoitsu
My Offerings To My Lord
...(Inspired by 'Gitanjali' by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore)
In the seamless sea of eternity, when life's hassles churn my mind, my Lord,
and a note of discord creeps into the soft rhythm of...
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Categories:
cowherd, devotion, god, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ride 'Um Cowboy
...Cowboy rides horse cowboy boots in stirrups
Cowboy hat waving in hand, yeehaw it’s grand,
Cowgirl is on the range! Lasso by corral
Appaloosa horse hurrah! Glad he’s a cowhand.
Dreaming of equ...
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Categories:
cowherd, america, daughter, horse, love,
Form: Rhyme
College- a Torment Camp
...-Subash Khanal
I have such a wish to write
‘Torment camp’
all over the walls of my college
Each professor
stands behind the podium
and shares the sleeping tablet
It’s such an adversity
...
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Categories:
cowherd, absence,
Form: Free verse
Caedmon's Face
...Caedmon’s Face
by Michael R. Burch
At the monastery of Whitby,
on a day when the sun sank through the sea,
and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free,
while the wind and Time blew all aro...
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Categories:
cowherd, angel, christian, england, old,
Form: Verse
Caedmon's Hymn
...Caedmon's Hymn
by Michael R. Burch
At the monastery of Whitby,
on a day when the sun sank through the sea,
and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free,
while the wind and time blew all aro...
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Categories:
cowherd, angel, christian, god, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
At Caedmon's Grave
...At Cædmon’s Grave
At Caedmon's Grave
by Michael R. Burch
“Cædmon’s Hymn,” composed at the Monastery of Whitby (a North Yorkshire fishing village), is one of the oldest known poems written in the...
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Categories:
cowherd, angel, bible, christian, england,
Form: Sonnet
Hare Krishna
...forest bamboo bush
evening breeze's gentle caress
haunting flute melody fills the air
...
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Categories:
cowherd, god, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Last Word By Kuldip Medhi
...Met her first
Where
The meadow stopped
Behind the mountains
Benched on the buffalo's back
A cowherd
Played a riverine tune
Where
The bow-shaped river
Flowed north
The white yachts...
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Categories:
cowherd, grief, imagery, pain,
Form: Free verse
Our Village
...All Round River and waterfall
Land of the harvest,
This is our village
Betelnut and betel's garden.
Home home the granary
Haystack and cowherd,
This is our village
Magw Bwisagu cheerfully and ...
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Categories:
cowherd, nature,
Form: Lyric
Bathing of Cattle
...O Cowherd, my fellow cowherd
Let's quickly drag the river walk
Fun walk with the wash cattle
Take the bamboo tube, and charcoal.
Look quick the sun came out midday
Does buck tilak on forehead
B...
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Categories:
cowherd, happiness,
Form: Footle
Cowherd
...Oh my friend cowherd
Play Your Flute,
Sweet voice from core of heart
Flora has to get a life.
Black Drongo birds and Martin
The cows came back on,
Play your flute to
Dark Green pasture must yi...
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Categories:
cowherd, friend,
Form: Free verse
World Class Ldaders
...Obama is a lawyer
Putin a spy zuma a world class
Thieving cowherd...
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Categories:
cowherd, abortion,
Form: Senryu
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T Wignesan
...Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned ov...
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Categories:
cowherd, god, mother, religious, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Cock Crows
...there's a cock that crows in
the morning, it shakes me up
with it's trumpet and resplendent
feathers saying,
"you don't intimidate me with your poems,"
and the cowherd in the old chair,
...
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Categories:
cowherd, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
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