Music Pastoral Poems

Young one,
Enjoy your youth
Be happy while you are still young
Do what you want to do
 And follow your heart’s desire
But remember the LORD 
Is going...

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A pastoral tragi-comedy – twelve hours long. 
It begins with twilight: the day’s oozing hours,
Creating somber music of a melancholic song:
The theme song to mourn...

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Philipians1:3-14

The things that have happened to me have turned out for the furtherance of the 
Gospel.

Simple acts of kindness. 

As I sit here in my...

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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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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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Austria, you refresh my spirit like dew refreshes the earth
The flowers of the field are glorified in your country.
Your snow falls so silently as God...

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Telepathic Music

Drip-drop, drip-drop
On the the tin roof 
Above our rustic garages
We sat on our couches
Silently gazing at the sloping lawns
Overlooking the rivulet
Warming our hands
On our...

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Lines of sweet garlands lie beside,
The winding road,
The stooping hill,
Pines and moorland bend to the ride,
Of Cupid’s delight,
The eerie, hoping thrill...

The shepherd’s flock, wool a-blowing,
Cow...

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What has more beauty than a tree
That sways and shimmers in the cooling breeze. 
Dancing in the living wind, 
To the music of a rushing...

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We come to recognize
Just one faith
And to honor one man
With wisdom and grace
         ------
To pay allegiance
 ...

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Inspired by Brian Strand's contest Pastoral poem


Branches rise in praise
Wind as music floats to heaven
Birds sing praises, joy...

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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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In a nearby weeping willow tree
A visitor is perched upon a bough
Robin is singing somewhere above me
I'd never noticed the myriad variations 
Of his warbling...

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Jesus is
            music so soothing
         ...

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