Short Herbert Poems

Glory,recognise
Glory,then to know
        as life dies-
a new place to go...

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symbol
  with
     a picture
motto

a
compliment
   complements
a verse...

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Herbert Butros Khaury
liked to play the ukelele
he always acted clueless
in falsetto gave us Tiptoe Through the Tulips
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George Herbert 'CHURCH FLOORE'

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The devil seeks trouble
Like a roaring lion
        Devours double
We are God's scion


Stlye after the writer George Herbert......

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G HERBERT WALL
An oldtime poet named Herbert
wrote verse forms to divert
Poesy with a coloured pic
this emblem was his party trick
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George Herbert gave verse a shape
in patterns he poetry did drape
He also created many syllabic forms
with him poetic training was born...

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By and by,
Tis the fate believers buy.
That when they sin hallow,
Then affliction will them swallow.
c,2017

  inspired by Gorge Herbert....

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Worship as you will
Worshi with your heart
           and be still
never to depart



After the style of George Herbert's poem Discipline 5/5/3/5...

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Hope can be certain
Hope is not denied
        in the main-
If,all else is tried

Quatrain Form derived from George Herbert's poem Discipline 5/5/3/5...

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Listen to My voice
Listen to the word,
      love's a choice
and by grace,is heard


After the fquatrain form 5/5/3/5 abab by George Herbert the Anglo Welsh poet...

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E-xcited
M-ind
E-agerly
L-ets
Y-our

H-eart
E-njoy
R-unning
B-lood
E-rasing
R-age
T-here

Topic: Birthday of Emely Herbert (May 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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E-erie
M-onster's
E-pidemic
L-ets
Y-ucky

H-orror
E-mploy
R-isk
B-y
E-xecuting
R-abid
T-hreat

Topic: Birthday of Emely Herbert (May 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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George Herbert. the flower


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Come my love,my heart's desire:
with this love,as will not die;
with this heart,that burns as fire;
with my desire,ever nigh.

A quatrain -After George Herbert's form in 'THE CALL'...

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E-xciting
M-ay's
E-arly
L-ight
Y-ields

H-eavenly
E-nvironment
R-egarding
B-irthday's
E-xcellent
R-apturous
T-wenty-fifth

Topic: Birthday of Emely Herbert (May 25)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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So versatile was George
many a new form he did forge
mixing poetry with emblems **was  smart
His churche floore* poetic art

**see also my poem www.poetrysoup.com/poem/george_heberts_emblem_1675787

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Faith is never blind
Faith's someone to trust,
             and to find -
when circumstance must !    


Note: This quatrain form is labelled after and inspired by a verse from George Herbert(1593-
1633) 5:5:3:5...

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Herbert did not say much about his proficient reading cow.
But she read at an eighth-grade level, none of us knew how.
We saw her reading the newspaper and an encyclopedia too.
Unlike other cows, this literary appreciator never said “moo”....

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EPITAPH

Here lies the body of Herbert Morting,
Who died of an overdose of courting.
He would have lived, I have no doubt
But for the fact his wife found out.

12th April 2019
Epitaph to make us laugh 2 contest
Sponsor - Jesse Rowe...

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As I gather the rasberries
   Thinking only of you
With Dove's coo to entertain me
    As he sings his love too

I will have to wash in water
Damaged ones will have to curr
Like God takes the damaged sir
Transforms into another




(Herbert Style)...

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Forgiving Doesn’t Mean Forgetting
Haiku: by Miracle Man
November 15, 2021

Everyone’s treated
unjust at some time in life;
forgive and move on.

“He who cannot forgive others
destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.” 
George Herbert
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The wife of LBJ, known to all as 'Ladybird'
    was famous for the following words
      'Plant a tree, a shrub, or a bush'

  She never dreamed they'd lead to
    two more Texans in the White House
  First the father, George Herbert Walker
    Then the son, smart-alecky George W. Bush!...

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D-ivine
A-crostic
V-erse
I-n
D-elight

H-as
E-mployed
R-emarkable
B-rilliance
E-ndorsing
R-ighteous
T-heme's

L-oveliness
A-s
W-riter
R-emains
E-nthusiastic
N-icely
C-omposing
E-xpression

Topic: Birthday of poet David Herbert Lawrence (September 11) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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GEORGE HERBERT emblem


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Greek word for Christ,...

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