Grief Pastoral Poems

Our desert rose is dead,
Left in the mere mercy of the sun.
His scorching hands has suck her soul out,
Housing ourselves in our sin.
Chained to the...

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Instruction
by Michael R. Burch

Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.

Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset

of night is...

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I love a day where I am at peace,
when I can just wander in rural fields;
letting the air and the sky release,
and the blossoms float...

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Sometimes God brings his angels lives to an end, so its unfortunate that I have to say goodbye to my friend, a love taken far...

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Greenswards Fecundity Blooms Away ™

Within a fortnight, as tempestuous slam
dunk March madness closes curtain call
“in like a lion, out like a lamb,” 
twill hove tested...

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A new day begins
As the day before.
The Jersey girls assemble themselves
Into their usual cow chain.
One girl’s head follows another’s tail.
Then head then tail,
All along the...

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The verdant leaves
of the cherry trees
rustle as a wagon
loaded with corn
rides deeper into the wide ruts
of a rustic road,
hungry ruminants wallow
by a limpid lake;
cheerful kids...

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When disappointments descend on you,
And your chosen plans comes to naught,
That your suffering was so intensified, 
And made your heart to shrink or quiver.

 ...

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In 
preying
on others-
magpies feed on 
grief...

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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 know.


...

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As a poet I use words to facilitate.
Whether it is to inspire, for grief, love or debate.
A word to me in rhyming form is God’s...

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As I sit and watch images of grief,sorrow and comfort on the T.V. screen all I can think
of is how this seen that took place,...

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