Astral Shepherd

integrity plays
an integral part
when intellect stays
an emotional heart
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LA to Chicago
eight state snake
the road not traveled
any more
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Echoes of summer fill the air
where barefoot children danced and played
grassy meadows now lie bare
in a seasonal passing parade
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i saw the light
come in
and thru the window
it
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I stand here in the bright morning light
as the day begins as it always has
within the folds of time’s memories,
remembering how my life used to be.
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Even-dreams by moon’s soft light gleams
circular rising,
riding in higher waves
magical and grand:
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Summer always brought
its share of joy and woe
especially at the beach
on the sandy wet play shore
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The preacher stood there strong and still
brilliant in a new day’s dawning
singing with hope’s bright emergence,
sweet songs into the morning air.
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i see the stars
at night
high in the heavens
i see jewels
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Far off lands beckon me
beyond the far green shore
beyond the cold iron sea
beyond my own front door
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The empty gnawing my heart makes
burrows deeper within my soul
caverns of solitary desolation and
I cannot contain the growing urge
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She walks her blue cat
While moonlight stalks the shadow
When the breezes cease
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I

if i had a voice
beyond this
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On the beach, just before sunrise,
one solitary fisherman clad
in vulcanized rubber waders
stands silently, almost reverently,
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with soft green grass as a carpet
i stare wide eyed at the evening show
light rays leisurely leave the stage
as star drops salt the velvet curtain
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I.

by day
she toils in the hot bright sun
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~
I let my mind
go-a-drifting, back
along a fence 's white pickets
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when carousels spin happily
children’s faces shine bright with joy
calliope notes keep the time
and painted horses rise and fall
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