Long Sheepfold Poems

Love has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...

Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...

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O' Please do not forget how to  pray
For all of your friends and your family
As well as anyone else you may
Recall existing in your family's tree

O' Please do not forget to pray for
The Peace...

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He Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh”
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I.
He who visited hell, his country’s foundation,
Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places.
He deeply explored many underworld realms
Where he learned of the Deluge and why Death...

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So do I, your God send forth all of you...to serve, worship,
love and adore me.

So I send forth all of you to....daily read your holy Bible
So I do send forth all of you....to never more...

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Our Most High and Most Holy GOD has thereby changed my Persian name of
Roxanne to a Hebrew name of Rachel.  Rachel was the favorite wife of Jacob,
and was of course, his first choice. ...

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Create in me a clean heart O Lord and renew a right spirit within  me cast
me not away from your presence and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 
Restore to me the joy...

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Yes! Satan is the God of this present age! Just take a close look at the entertainment industry! The beautiful young women are dressing up like prostitutes! In fact street walkers wear more clothes on...

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I have often wondered if God still cared about an apostate Christian nation such as America is today? "

Be not deceived, God is not mocked, whatsoever a man (or a nation) sows that he (or...

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Modern day scoffers say,
only the strong will survive
That the weak will be eaten alive
Only T-Rex,
cold-blooded logic will thrive

The talking serpents e-vol hiss, 
instincts of compassion and kindness won’t abide
Forgiveness is viewed as fleece clothing
to bear...

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The Good Shepherd
Christ is the True Shepherd
JN 10:1-18
"Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. 
But whoever enters...

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Psalm 23
A Psalm of David

"The Lord is my shepherd; I
shall not want.  He makes me to lie down in
green pastures: he leads me beside the still
waters.
He restores my soul: he leads
me in the paths...

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The Summer is slowly passing, and the green is dying,
The garden of flowers loses its color,
The white storks, slowly, slowly are being lost in the heights,
Tomorrow's world will be much duller.

The scent of the flower...

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I heard the voice of the good shepherd say;
"I did your sad and weary soul salvage,
lean on me, I did for your freedom pay.
Lean on me, and come to God with courage."
The soft voice of...

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Leave The Hundred and Look For the One

If I have a group around me
And one would leave from me
One would leave the scene 
what does this mean, what should I do
I choose to leave the...

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an Arabian sonnet

Greetings to one who cries for salvation;
God hears the tears of your desolation.
Crying for our Lord’s shield from privation
strength comes, Messiah gives confirmation.

One day spent as keeper of His threshhold,
one day guarding the...

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I wanted to reject expected pain
So pushed away the feelings of my soul
But as I did not look,they came again.

To unreality,  my self was chained
And so I did not see the image whole.
I wanted...

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Near Lake Fane the sheep graze in thy green meadow.
At ease, ewes are seen nibbling field blades most fine,
where fierce lion's shape may cast no grave shadow
or shows dire snake hole.
For ye make sure thy...

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In the low pasture
cowbirds are picking over humming cow pats.

In the high sheepfold
lambs are dropping small round blueberries
that are really not blueberries
and the whirring beetles know it.

Black fly are in the barn swarming
over the hissing...

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A-lmighty God's gift of salvation
I-s given to the one sheepfold; 
R-ighteousness and truth
A-re the things they uphold.

B-ehold the sky and think
O-f the promised blissful abode; 
R-ight path you must find
A-s you ignore the wrong road.
B-eautiful...

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