Water Pastoral Poems

Puffy white clouds 
Like pieces of
Floating cotton 
Shifts silently across
 the blue sky 

Birds of morning 
Sing songs in the 
distance

Fish swim in crystal water
River...

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Our father, 
Who art in heaven
Thanks for the gifts
Life, shelter, water and more
Give us this day insight to art.
Ignite our creativity
Expand our knowledge
So we can...

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Be in no hurry, grow as you may, bending and turning whichever way.

Water I will, and water I must, water, until you bout, had enough.

Placed...

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From the deep soil 
of mountains and hills 
Flows down the rocks 
to mould its path 

So form the river
the source of life 
Fresh and...

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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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Our riverbank launch at dawn
where dense forest chills the breeze,
where cottonwood leaves flutter like wings,
and weeping willow penumbras tease.

Glistening, rippling turquoise water churns.
Crystal swirling pools...

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He ran the palm of his hand across the canvas,
Felt its soft, smooth surface, excellent fabric.
It was well primed with gesso, and he was sure
The...

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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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WE HAVE A NEW YEAR 2021 AND WE MUST EXPECT THE BEST BECAUSE GOD DOES NOT GIVE US ANY MESS. WE MUST TRUST HIS HOLY...

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Dragonfly lands atop the stick that stands in gently flowing stream.
Bubble trains and dried leaf boats blow
and briefly strand before they slip between the stepping...

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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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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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This last day of February two thousand nineteen
Southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
unlikely to be inundated with heavy snowy scene
methinks buds will burst early issuing royal green
carpeting...

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Golden strands wave at me as the psithurism rings
Across the barren fields, stretching like children
Awaiting their mother’s soft caress
Of comfort and presence.

The fabric of dawn...

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The Jordan River in Israel is remembered;
As the river where miracles occurred.
Joshua lead by God almighty was instructed;
To put the ark of the covenant in...

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