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Cowherd Poems - Poems about Cowherd

Premium MemberTANABATA 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

Premium MemberTranslation 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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