Color Pastoral Poems

For Roseto Valfortore

Thousands of miles in silver rain
Brushing over your colors again.
Each stop still knows I’ve seen
So many lives your hues change.
Dragons blood runs on...

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Fall’s Beauty


Shuffling through the leaves and grass
Looking back on Autumn’s past
Gazing at the dreary sky
Watching nature take a sigh

As we wait for winter’s blast
And the...

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Do you not know Who goes before you, O nation of Israel?
Do you not know that Mighty Jehovah is your Deliverer?
He has chosen you...

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O Jerusalem! O Jerusalem! How I love to visit your city! Beautiful are your gates. Elegant are your people. Tell me, O Jerusalem, how can...

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I woke up to frost covered trees
looking frozen stiff, cold
standing there with no leaves
standing tall and bold
silence and solitude
wind in my face
sets the mood
The open...

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Pastoral Hymn


Formerly, one knew on sight the ones
who walked with economic purpose.
One had criteria: the color
of their robes, the meter
of their stroll, the semaphore of...

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Americans are a people who have a story
Conceived in courage, forged in glory. 
With a moral idea as our unique foundation
And freedom for each as...

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Dear Lord, I contemplate your greatness
I am in awe of your majesty
The exquisite detail in all things
To live in your powerful harmony

As I walk in...

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Let the paper be a canvas and the pen, a brush
The words fill  the mind like a young girl’s blush
Every color on the palette...

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 Today like so many, I said a prayer for the families. For the students that lost 
their lives to a man that many didn't...

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Journey centuries passed
walk its trailblazers' path
old memories photographed
are sacred keys to Moab's past

Red sandstone canyons surround 
an old western town
its sacred fertile ground
and white sunlight...

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