Wednesday, 27 April 2016

The shepherdess


I spied this shepherdess
With her flock on the rolling hills
I saw her joyfulness
Skipping barefoot with the lambs

 I liked her happiness
When she took me to her croft
She showed such tenderness
As she wrapped me in her arms

 I loved her openness
She told me the way to live
And was the seductress
Who stole my poor heart away
Image of the painting 'The Hireling' by Holman Hunt found at www.culture24.org.uk/art/art61592


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19 comments:

  1. thotpurge27 April 2016 at 04:54

    Skipping barefoot with the lambs.. such an image of joy!

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  2. Susan27 April 2016 at 05:01

    Reminds me of hippy-er days and of images of paradise. Truly, those who spend time in the arms of the shepherdess don't adapt easily to society's strictures. "Poor heart"!

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    1. Old Egg27 April 2016 at 05:58

      Phooey to society's strictures I'll take a shepherdess any day.

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  3. Jae Rose27 April 2016 at 05:11

    Like a lamb to the slaughter or the dance? she sounds like quite the one..think i'd follow too though...i love how you have taken us into the picture and the skip and flow of the words

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  4. Linda Kay27 April 2016 at 06:18

    Great poem, and I love the picture.

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  5. Anonymous27 April 2016 at 08:14

    Ah! That's lovely.
    -HA

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  6. Mary27 April 2016 at 08:23

    Ah, it definitely sounds like she has the seductive routine truly mastered!

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  7. Sanaa Rizvi27 April 2016 at 08:25

    This is lovely!!

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  8. Sherry Blue Sky27 April 2016 at 09:49

    What a happy scene - the lambs and the girl on the rolling slopes. Lovely.

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  9. Sumana Roy27 April 2016 at 21:54

    aha...femme fatale...

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  10. Rosemary Nissen-Wade28 April 2016 at 00:06

    How delightfully bucolic! I am reminded a little of Audrey in 'As You Like It' - though her charges were goats, not sheep.

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  11. Amit Agarwal28 April 2016 at 00:18

    Delightfully lovely:)
    Poor heart..!

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  12. J Cosmo Newbery28 April 2016 at 03:46

    Is that why the lambs frolic so?

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  13. rallentanda28 April 2016 at 06:24

    She looks hot!

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  14. Maniparna28 April 2016 at 08:09

    Lovely one...she seems to be an epitome of natural joyousness... :-)

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  15. Carrie Van Horn28 April 2016 at 14:52

    If your going to lose your heart...that is the way to do it. :-)

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  16. vanderloost29 April 2016 at 00:11

    Beautiful

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  17. Magical Mystical Teacher29 April 2016 at 10:28

    Everyone needs a seductress or seducer, I think.

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  18. Bastet's Waka Library2 May 2016 at 04:29

    Ah now this is a beautiful little ditty ... nicely written indeed!

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