May Pastoral Poems

MY SAVIOUR

When life is just too hard to handle. I turn to You Lord.
When the debts pile higher than the sky, I turn to You...

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Pennilessness shadows black
unemployment endless track
rails tie-er less lee when dumbly staring
overdrawn account issues 
   another clattering smack.

Income pleat undergraduate degree
contributed to the role...

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On this day
 Think of those without
 A family without a home
 The homeless hoping for a meal
 Think of those
 The runaway struggling to...

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Dear Lord, You created us in your likeness,
And You hoped that someday we follow in your greatness.
But we turned away from peace and happiness,
And forgot...

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Poverty is not a slogan
It is a reality in our organ
Though for time immemorial it had begun
it is not to be treated as bygone

When in...

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Who may reveal mystery of the stars, moon and light
from the curtain he controls, philosophers say
men bow to worship the cow, cross and clay
and in...

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Our good earth and the people on it are ever changing
For the better, and it is good
So let's all embrace we know with a hug
Of...

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You hear about holidays that people hate
Rarely of exotic taste, finding the better fare, 
Cheap enough for travel agents to promote
Such resorts which they advertise...

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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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So when he slowly descended from the hill,
with sun providing him with a blinding halo,
the other ascended and regarded him in awe.
"May I introduce myself?...

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To my Auntie Jenny, 
Whom I loved so much,
You are now with the Lord and free of pain,
You and Walter are back together,
I will miss...

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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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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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There's an old saying that goes like this...

Birds of a feather flock together.

But I tell you this...

If you want to succeed in anything in life...

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This self-explanatory English poem of mine was originally drafted Monday (evening) August 5, 2013, while I was still in Independence, Missouri. I revised it a...

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Many days have we lived together,
O John, the chief cook!
I am weary of hunger,
And you have food and water.
Are you truly my neighbor?
Then give me...

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I still remember the first time I met
You and i said to myself not yet
And now i got to live with regret
For not accepting for...

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While gathering wood one autumn day
To make a stack beside the stove,
I spied a nest along the way
Of back and forth and to and fro.

November’s...

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Gazing heavenward
 I oft forget Your essence resides within
 and that I'm a reflection of Your perfect image

Perpetually abiding in Your redemptive presence
 I humbly...

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