The flower’s yellow
Thrusts up, live; the leaves’ yellow
Droops autumnally.
Welcome. These are some of the attempts at verse that I have made over the years. I trust that they are to the glory of the Lord Jesus - and that putting them here is to His glory too. I have now posted most that I have written at least once but continue in case a new audience finds new blessing. Occasionally I throw in some other verse. Comment are welcome.
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Monday, 29 June 2009
06/09/04
Let David rejoice
With the gorilla - for God
Is his protector.
Compare with "Rejoice in the Lamb".
With the gorilla - for God
Is his protector.
Compare with "Rejoice in the Lamb".
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
03/09/04
For I bless God for
The National Health Service
In Kit Smart’s1 fashion.
1 Eccentric poet of “Rejoice in the Lamb”
The National Health Service
In Kit Smart’s1 fashion.
1 Eccentric poet of “Rejoice in the Lamb”
Friday, 19 June 2009
Thursday, 18 June 2009
LYING DOWN
Come into infant smallness,
Swaddling love
Laid Him in the manger.
Unnailed from the cross
He was swathed by love
And laid in a tomb.
But before He had been
Love-pillowed
Lying asleep in the storm.
Before He had laid Himself down
In love’s company
To celebrate the feast.
Afterwards, knowing what it means,
He will have His faithful lie down,
For love to serve.
Swaddling love
Laid Him in the manger.
Unnailed from the cross
He was swathed by love
And laid in a tomb.
But before He had been
Love-pillowed
Lying asleep in the storm.
Before He had laid Himself down
In love’s company
To celebrate the feast.
Afterwards, knowing what it means,
He will have His faithful lie down,
For love to serve.
BEHOLD HE SMOTE THE ROCK
Behold He smote the rock:
waters rushed out,
streams overflowed:
how did they doubt
His gladness to unlock
boundless resources yet to be bestowed?
He led them through alone:
He gave them food
from the rich soil;
and soon they could
suck honey from the stone;
while from the flinty rock He gave them oil.
waters rushed out,
streams overflowed:
how did they doubt
His gladness to unlock
boundless resources yet to be bestowed?
He led them through alone:
He gave them food
from the rich soil;
and soon they could
suck honey from the stone;
while from the flinty rock He gave them oil.
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
ABRAHAM
What did it mean to him
When Abraham clave the wood
Of the burnt-offering?
What did it mean to him
When Abraham laid the wood
On his son Isaac?
What did it mean to him
When Abraham built the altar
And piled the wood?
What did it mean to him
When Abraham bound Isaac
And laid him on the wood?
When Abraham clave the wood
Of the burnt-offering?
What did it mean to him
When Abraham laid the wood
On his son Isaac?
What did it mean to him
When Abraham built the altar
And piled the wood?
What did it mean to him
When Abraham bound Isaac
And laid him on the wood?
Monday, 15 June 2009
SOUTHERNDOWN BEACH
I wrote a verse on sand
Now lost to tide and wind:
Why should I take that worse
Than all my other verse?
Soon loss will have occurred
To all words but the Word;
None stands the tidal shock
Apart from Christ, the Rock.
Now lost to tide and wind:
Why should I take that worse
Than all my other verse?
Soon loss will have occurred
To all words but the Word;
None stands the tidal shock
Apart from Christ, the Rock.
Sunday, 14 June 2009
NEWBORN
“Every shepherd
Must feel the same” –
Thus Abel,
Watching the firstling of the flock,
As instinct, trial and error,
Guided to its mother’s udder.
Thus Rachel
As she saw the lamb
Suck the teat’s rich colostrum.
Thus Moses
As he felt the tight belly
Of a minutes-old satiated lamb.
Thus David,
As he heard the ewe murmuring
Her psalm of contentment.
Thus the Good Shepherd
As the man once blind asked avidly,
“Who is He, Lord,
That I may believe on Him?”
Must feel the same” –
Thus Abel,
Watching the firstling of the flock,
As instinct, trial and error,
Guided to its mother’s udder.
Thus Rachel
As she saw the lamb
Suck the teat’s rich colostrum.
Thus Moses
As he felt the tight belly
Of a minutes-old satiated lamb.
Thus David,
As he heard the ewe murmuring
Her psalm of contentment.
Thus the Good Shepherd
As the man once blind asked avidly,
“Who is He, Lord,
That I may believe on Him?”
Saturday, 13 June 2009
PEACE
God has made peace by the blood of Christ's cross;
By Him now all things have been reconciled.
Out of His anguish, His horror and loss
Peace comes in triumph where sin had defiled.
He is our peace who has broken the wall
Forging diversity into one man;
Coming in love He has preached peace to all:
Formed through this Source we are built to one plan.
He gives His peace ‑ what a wonderful gift ‑
More than the best that this world can provide!
How could we fear with such power to uplift
Hearts to the place where His comforts preside?
As Prince of Peace He will quickly return
Down to this earth to set everything right:
Lord! wake our hearts with desire ‑ let them burn
Till Thou shalt come and secure Thy delight.
By Him now all things have been reconciled.
Out of His anguish, His horror and loss
Peace comes in triumph where sin had defiled.
He is our peace who has broken the wall
Forging diversity into one man;
Coming in love He has preached peace to all:
Formed through this Source we are built to one plan.
He gives His peace ‑ what a wonderful gift ‑
More than the best that this world can provide!
How could we fear with such power to uplift
Hearts to the place where His comforts preside?
As Prince of Peace He will quickly return
Down to this earth to set everything right:
Lord! wake our hearts with desire ‑ let them burn
Till Thou shalt come and secure Thy delight.
Friday, 12 June 2009
Thursday, 11 June 2009
HIS PLACE
He took me from the mountains
Where I was wont to roam
And laid me on His shoulders
To bear me kindly home:
I had been lost and straying
And He had heard my plea;
He tenderly assured me
"This is My place for thee."
He led me to green pastures
Where I could safely feed:
He brought me by still waters
To answer all my need.
"My Lord, I am not worthy
Of all Thou givest me."
He tenderly assured me
"This is My place for thee."
He led me through dark valleys
Where all seemed dank and dim;
Where shadows pressed upon me
Although I was with Him;
Though fears arose within me
And made me long to flee
He tenderly assured me
"This is My place for thee."
So as my path goes onward
Through pleasure or through test
I trust my caring Shepherd
Because His way is best.
And when my way is ended
With Him I will be free;
He'll tenderly assure me
"This is My place for thee."
Where I was wont to roam
And laid me on His shoulders
To bear me kindly home:
I had been lost and straying
And He had heard my plea;
He tenderly assured me
"This is My place for thee."
He led me to green pastures
Where I could safely feed:
He brought me by still waters
To answer all my need.
"My Lord, I am not worthy
Of all Thou givest me."
He tenderly assured me
"This is My place for thee."
He led me through dark valleys
Where all seemed dank and dim;
Where shadows pressed upon me
Although I was with Him;
Though fears arose within me
And made me long to flee
He tenderly assured me
"This is My place for thee."
So as my path goes onward
Through pleasure or through test
I trust my caring Shepherd
Because His way is best.
And when my way is ended
With Him I will be free;
He'll tenderly assure me
"This is My place for thee."
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
US
Before divine power wrought
Divine affection thought
of us.
In mercy Jesus came
To bear both sin and shame
for us.
Now from His glorious place
He comes to show His grace
to us.
He's gone in to prepare
A place that He will share
with us.
Where He with joy will raise
An anthem to God's praise
by us.
Divine affection thought
of us.
In mercy Jesus came
To bear both sin and shame
for us.
Now from His glorious place
He comes to show His grace
to us.
He's gone in to prepare
A place that He will share
with us.
Where He with joy will raise
An anthem to God's praise
by us.
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
RISEN
I can’t believe it,
Said the soldier.
All this cash for not telling the truth
When the truth is
I was too scared to know what was happening!
I quite believe it,
Said the priest.
Quash it, lie, bribe
Anything so long as
We don’t have that Man to reign over us!
He is not here,
Said the young man in white.
Behold the place
Where they had put Him.
Do we believe it?
Asked the women.
And what is there for us to believe?
We are seized by fear and questions.
I believe,
Said the beloved disciple.
For the tomb was orderly,
All distinctiveness, as
He would have left it.
He is risen,
Said Mary.
I have seen Him:
He spoke of His Father
As our Father, of His God
As our God.
Now I believe,
Said the doubter Thomas.
Not merely as a believer.
He has made me a worshipper -
My Lord and My God!
Said the soldier.
All this cash for not telling the truth
When the truth is
I was too scared to know what was happening!
I quite believe it,
Said the priest.
Quash it, lie, bribe
Anything so long as
We don’t have that Man to reign over us!
He is not here,
Said the young man in white.
Behold the place
Where they had put Him.
Do we believe it?
Asked the women.
And what is there for us to believe?
We are seized by fear and questions.
I believe,
Said the beloved disciple.
For the tomb was orderly,
All distinctiveness, as
He would have left it.
He is risen,
Said Mary.
I have seen Him:
He spoke of His Father
As our Father, of His God
As our God.
Now I believe,
Said the doubter Thomas.
Not merely as a believer.
He has made me a worshipper -
My Lord and My God!
Monday, 8 June 2009
WE BOW BEFORE THE TRINITY
Though once afar off enemies
And strangers to sanguinity,
As brought to God and taught to praise
We bow before the Trinity.
According to God's glorious ways
At home in Thy vicinity
To worship to the length of days
We bow before the Trinity.
With every heart and conscience clear
Before God's great divinity,
In reverence and godly fear
We bow before the Trinity.
Men, disparate, may now adhere
In heavenly consanguinity;
As in affection we appear
We bow before the Trinity.
Because of all that God has done
In love a new affinity
Of God and man has now begun;
We bow before the Trinity.
Acknowledging God ‑ Father, Son
And Spirit (in infinity
Three Persons, yet forever One) ‑
We bow before the Trinity.
And strangers to sanguinity,
As brought to God and taught to praise
We bow before the Trinity.
According to God's glorious ways
At home in Thy vicinity
To worship to the length of days
We bow before the Trinity.
With every heart and conscience clear
Before God's great divinity,
In reverence and godly fear
We bow before the Trinity.
Men, disparate, may now adhere
In heavenly consanguinity;
As in affection we appear
We bow before the Trinity.
Because of all that God has done
In love a new affinity
Of God and man has now begun;
We bow before the Trinity.
Acknowledging God ‑ Father, Son
And Spirit (in infinity
Three Persons, yet forever One) ‑
We bow before the Trinity.
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Friday, 5 June 2009
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Monday, 1 June 2009
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