Lonely Pastoral Poems

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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It was a long lonely night at the lumber mill
Just listening to a whippoorwill 
In the dark beside a logging road.
I’ve got fifteen cars of...

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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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A sparrow the image
And she lonely seeks out food.
From the bushes and recesses
For a hopeful waiting brood.
And the cosmos spins around her
And she seems a...

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When atlast my eyes look into my soul
And my knowing bursts forth with new 
Understanding,  how painful this experience. 

To lose my beliefs, fault...

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A lovely rose upon a hill
Its' petals wet with dew
Sits lonely in its' growing place
Neath skies of azure blue

A coat of green surrounds the rose
The...

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A SWEET MELODY THAT SINGS TO MY SPIRIT A SONG THAT IS IN MY HEART.

PEACEFUL HARMONY THAT HAS BEEN THERE FROM THE START.

A SAVIOR WHO...

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I don’t know who I am anymore
Last night I was laid bleeding on the floor
Asking myself who I was
As the devil stood up in applause
Asking...

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Cascading hues 
Fall down from the mountain ledges
Quite beautiful
But suddenly
The rage of cold and distance is upon us
Seems never to end
'Tho come this morn I...

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No
plants 'neath
in its shade,
no rooks in a
nest-
the lonely
bereft life
of a churchyard
tree...

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Female Doggie Likes to kiss the cheek of my Beastly Pose
One that likes to be counted on as a dear friend forever
I am a Human...

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My heart feels lonely and I am blue
I dont know what I can do, for I wonder
if I'll see the Son of God looking at...

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