Long Shepard Poems

If you don't love dogs, you probably won't like this poem...my wife and I DO!


Can’t believe I used to think - when I was very young - that dogs made poorer pets than cats and...

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Behold! 

A gaping black-
Curtains of a heaven, drawn
Set adrift
Across the wilt of the zodiac! 

An’ so, she emerged

An’ madness dreamt into reality 
A bow, to tether-
Then glide down humanity
Every heart string, to vibrate an’ tear-
Tooth...

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Every child that is born gets a slice of God's heart,
But a fetus can't have one; You sure you're so smart?
Though some folks disagree (do quote Bible verse too),
Are they liars and frauds who call...

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So America, how does it feel?
To choose a dumbass of a president
Such as Donald Trump" now?
Not so great a ruler is he?

He doesn't know the facts
He didn't take precautions
He didn't have backup plans
He doesn't know...

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All That ‘I AM’ - Revisited

Let all that ‘I AM,’ yes, my pulp, seed, and cover,
from dreams long misplaced to the fears, I’m resisting
(though friends think them offal). My eye’s tears from mote
(that makes sparks...

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My child dry your eyes!!  My Children self rest he the Lord made darkness his secret place and placed his Pavillion in the dark and in the light Father in Jesus Christ's Power and...

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Queen of the Empire 
Shining brightly 
Through golden ages
A Torch of Humanity 
Bringing Robust British Prosperity 
To all wholesomely!

Queen of the Empire 
Touching all shores with the fire 
The will to be and become 
The...

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Does God know the sorrows of man?

Does Faith relieve the burdens of sin?

She was worn out as she was worn in
Her spirit had no use for her body
Her eyes saw the face of death lurking
The...

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Shot Three Times 
 
  Laying on my float enjoying the sunny day as I did so many times before yet 
today was going to change my life forever. 
As I lay there tanning...

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Monah Kaur and Robert Kumar fled from London, came to ‘Hindustan’; tied the knot
The 'Singhs' stopped their songs and 'Kumars at no. 42' burnt their studio; this rebellion; they will forget not
A petite piece of...

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Like a dam that holds water back water, we cannot prepare for God's blessings if we live with barriers that block out God. Break out of the barriers and destroy the dam so that God's rushing...

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mending fences can keep your cattle from
wondering : or going astray.
these grasses are as green as the one's
they graze upon, yet they rather dine
in my pastures.
who tends to the cattle, might he
then fix, what he...

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Resurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing alone, weeping in the nights blackened clouds of utter blindness,...

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in this world of fatal attractions and demonic temptations
we must retrace our steps to find our lost generation
in the grand scheme of life God gave us each a purpose or task
and we need to find...

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Alan Shepard, astronaut, took golf balls to the moon
He whacked them only when he knew that he’d be leaving soon
‘One flew two hundred yards,’ he said, ‘and as I recollect
one came down in a crater,...

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*The Passionate Shepherd's Final Plea To His Love* ( my version of the conclusion, ) inspired from " The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and " The Nymphs Reply To The Shepard" by Christopher Marlowe...

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"Though my actions, sometimes selfish and oppressive on the surface, inevitably land myself in a pit of dispair, yet for those of my supposed oppressors, repeatedly reap a formidable benefit.
Now this is not to say...

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|was at my depths end,
Worn out and not knowing
What to do...
To save me....

The  miles I drove...
So alone kept me
Wondering why
Did I do this...

All alone through
The night shifting gears
In the moon light
just me and the...

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One drop of food color 
Can change the appearance
Of a cup of water instantly 
One word in love
Can change the heart
Of mankind in an instant
One spark of a flame
Can start a Forrest ablaze
One small rudder
Can...

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it's all about the right relationship you need to have with the Lord God
it's about loving Him, knowing Him and having Him in your heart
for to have God in your heart will change your behavior
to...

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Butterscotch Fragrance rolling tongue tastes treat melting lips the mouth caramel Movements delight the belly rest! The butterscotch taste flows in the stomach no yes round the slowing flowing clouds the soul's taste buds the...

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Vostok 1

Within the time allotted
of eighty-nine minutes,
to orbit the planet
at 17,500 miles per hour;
The Russian Cosmonaut
inside the Vostok capsule
espies the distinctive
features of earth,
from two hundred miles above
its surface.

And reflects upon
the physical violence
of energetic movement
that formed...

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Be not harried by apostasy spates
Surcease ye flux of basilic imprecations
Adhibit ye ,supernal paracletes  
The pith of divinity

An Achates,
Vae victis
In this temporal realm

Chatoyant fanfaronade
Sursurrant congeries
Erelong abate
Shun the gaffer's gammon
Arcadian maundering

Avaunt kaleidoscopic zealotry  
Bandy...

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Their is a time for everything. Even before we were spiritual beings. The Bible states that in Ecclesiastes. For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. As I wake...

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One eye was brown, the other blue,
Australian Shepard his breed-
a workin' dog with one heck of a nip
to the heels a cattle an' steed.

Just a little fur ball when I got him,
but I well remember...

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