Moon Pastoral Poems

Instruction
by Michael R. Burch

Toss this poem aside
to the filigree 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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Greetings to each of you my dearly beloved brothers and sisters. Please read these seventeen blessings rendered for you in God's grace:

I. May God’s love...

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Soft, simple wind go on a path that is made clear,
Freshly lays anew for each breath that one appear,
The subtle ripple spreads on a course...

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Man seizes the ramble of a wayward moon,
Echoes clear its pale look melancholy tune,
It lends a trail took before of song and face,
Man ambles in...

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In your presence, it is our time.
I am yours you are mine, 

My senses filled with you in my being,
Only you in my thoughts, only...

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Tidelines

Where land meets sea will always be a special place for me,
Born by the coast, my early memories often seem to be,
Of happy hours beach-combing,...

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Things Fall Apart
The moon is not lighter
The day I saw the moon
The sun is not brighter
The time I saw the sun
Thee were not like this
The...

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Hope is a description of an expectation of both tangible and imaginative things.
Hope brings  me joy because i am comforted that things will be...

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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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A Day

In the beginning in a dark void space
God created the sun; it was for light
The light was divided from the dark and  he...

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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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When I hear the voices of little children
early at dusk just before twilight comes
with their faces cloaked by
the shawl of innocence
waving goodbye to the setting...

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How nice to swim in sea, river, lake and pond!
Floating body, pressing water, moving forward
How nice to enjoy spattering, splashing sound!
Gesturing body, flapping wing, clapping...

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This is a poem about one of our endangered birds of prey, the Marsh Harrier. 

Dancing in the air 
moving to an unheard tune 
instinctive...

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Cloaking misty hills and many a deep valley floor: 
The empty Moor presents an outlook, stoical and dour.
Seemingly barren, this mute guardian of history,
Emits an...

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I STEP down from the boardwalk and into a land  moved by the forces of the universe.

I feel the earth move under my feet...

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Werifesteria 
Werifesteria
A stroll through silence
The ancient wooded arena
The magical wudu
Where rays caress,
play games 
with young creatures 
for something to do

This weald at daybreak
The beauty and...

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My cabin is pretty in the early morning
When the dew lights up on the grass and leaves
And when the sun shines high in the great...

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She was having a heavenly day amongst swaying flowers,
     When a north wind swept her up, swirling and twirling;
Tumbling, she lay...

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From deep beyond the canyon rim,
Appearing at first night;
The moon appears upon a whim
And relays its borrowed light.

Then rising there above the knoll,
Through wisps of...

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