Psalms and hymns plus

This blog chiefly contains metrical versions of the psalms based on the NIV text but also poems I have written down the years

20170317

That Night

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Cold night wore black, Heaven's stars stood still. Moon showed a track Through Winter's chill. Her urgent cries Could forest...

In your arms

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In this case the connection between music and words is only that both have the same title. (I originally headed my words Held in your arms...

Pop song

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Some years ago I wrote these words to the tune you can find here I don't believe in limbo But I am there I know, You're far away...
20170316

Prayer for the start of the day

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Lord, accept my worship Lord, accept my praise, Nothing is a hardship When on you I gaze. Lord, be at the centre Of my life today. ...

Attention wandering

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Line up on lecture notes ... "In 1857  ..." Heat increases. Beans on toast and a refreshing cup of ... "Fully intended...
20170315

Four minutes

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Classical trumpet, vi'lin strings In the shops they're selling things TV, chocolate, magazines, People live beyond their means....
20170313

Perplex

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Sometimes, it seems to me, I can be Master, faster, clearer, brother, Longer, stronger, purer, lover, Than any on earth. This I call co...
20160923

i loved her hair

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I knew a woman I loved her eyes She put on glasses Now hear my sighs I knew a woman I loved her hair She changed the colour I was ...
20160701

I saw the limes in the sugar bowl

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I saw the limes in the sugar bowl, Placed there before she left for work. Reminding me, God is good. I walked over the hill to Highga...
20160420

My Coffee Card

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Someone will use my coffee card, When I'm dead. It's not likely I'll use my points, Then decease. No, I'll have so man...
20160419

Outside my window

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Outside my window, there stands a tree Its leaves are blowing in the wind. The sun is shining down on me, On life's Author my hope...
20160408

The shape I'm in

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I've tri ed to see it from different angles, The truth is I'm emotionally wreckt . Pent up frustration inwardly strangles, O h...
20151201

Enjoying old age

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I once was young But now I'm old. Silver I was But now I'm gold. I knew it all I'd not be told So confident Yet now I ...
20150808

Hot graphing

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I took my temperature With a tacograph It was miles more than it should have been I took my temperature With a polygraph It was at lea...
20150715

Psalm 127

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CM If help the Lord the house won't send, The builders work in vain. A town the Lord will not defend, The guards stand watch in vain...
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Welsh pastor [born '59] at Childs Hill Baptist, London ['83ff] husband to Eleri ['88ff]; father to 5 sons [b '89-'01]; 4 daughters-in-law ['09ff]; 9 grandchildren ['14ff] author: several books, many blogs.
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