Dream Pastoral Poems

Our riverbank launch at dawn
where dense forest chills the breeze,
where cottonwood leaves flutter like wings,
and weeping willow penumbras tease.

Glistening, rippling turquoise water churns.
Crystal swirling pools...

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Hello, staring at the letter, I adore, from a friend
Deeply submerged, in a silent lake of thought.
With gladden eyes, that move each line into mind
Painting...

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I have fond memories of grandpa's farm,
deep in a valley with a stream nearby;
it really was not a working farm.
but my grandpa's dream fulfilled.
He had...

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I am having a heavenly day among swaying flowers,
away from my usual city existence;
tumbling, I lay supine beneath a huge tree,
under the safety of cool...

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How is it in this meadow plush with grass
Where sturdy oaks stand holding up the sky
Their shade recedes -long summer days decry
To fade their glinting...

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The trees were as cathedrals,
Twas a temple of a kind—
A place one seeks redemption,
And others peace-of-mind.

And I was surely born again
Within that sacred wood—
Where sentinels,...

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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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The symphony has started
and the darkness does descend
the world succumbs to quietude
the day has reached its end

The nighttime woods are glittering
and offer up a show
a...

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Oh, how I love the way the cold light flows
from above on a downward stroke 
painting the sky in hues of fire and rain.
The ephemeral...

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Golden annihilation of a lion's 
    spring cover.
Endless tusk of an elephant's
    mind water.
Innard heaping stewards
   ...

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The shepherd stood on the field, frail,
He knew not what to do when and why,
As the wrathful sun did steep down,
The confused chap followed his...

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Afloat I am, 
The blind horizon spreads to no end.
O river of rivers, 
The queen river,
Flow as you wish, 
Gather silt forever
That on your shores...

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Darkness forsakes beings liberty. 
Pain that carry misery. 
Gate of colony power breath of that locked system.
Sea of dead chained. 
Faded face of a ginger...

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Abundances is not a promise to everyone,
Live with joy today and love someone. 
Do you know the places we shall go?
When we are not sure...

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Thank you, dear God, for this good life,
for the most amazing day, guide our hearts, minds and souls, 
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees...

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