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

20210817

Prunestones

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I loved a soldier. I said, make me your bride. But he went to war, and oh how I cried. He left me alone, no man by my side. I loved a sailor...
20210701

Butterflies

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Last night I dreamt of it again - My brother he was five And I was coming up to seven, So glad to be alive. We all into the garden went, The...
20210409

Humility

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Watch a seagull fly, Eye must not cry. Feet webbed to the earth, I sometimes overestimate my worth -  Remember good works on three fingers, ...

On the dangers of dancing

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Dance! Dance! Dance! Like a tiger on the loose Dance! Dance! Dance! Like a gawky gliding goose Dance! Dance! Dance! Like a body on a noose.
20210407

Psychology

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Sigmund Freud Would get annoyed If your feet were on the couch - He was always such a grouch! Carl G Jung Once took a bung They gave him lot...
20210329

Miztli

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In the land of Monteczuma Miztli, strong black puma, Went hunting far and high and low, Seeking his deadly foe. Quezelcoatl, and at his side...
20210327

Music

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I'm in love with music, Music, music, music. It's really such a thing - But I can't sing.

Days

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How I long for, O how I dream, Of days that are now past Days that now are gone forever Days that did not last. All I see now, yes, all I fe...

Exception

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It's an exception to be an exception But we're the exception that proves the rule. It's an exception to be an exception But we...

Twenty-six

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I wrote this when I was twenty six The twenty-sixth summer's almost gone Half of those summers spent in the Lord Yet there's still s...
20200725

She sometimes wears ...

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She sometimes wears the colour green, In green she looks serene. When clothed in green her beauty's seen, In green she is the queen. She...
20200626

Catechism 7

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Questions 42-52 CM And so what is the first command? No other gods but me. What is taught by this first command? To worship God only. What a...
20200417

Haiku Imagining

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She brushes her dark hair He closes his eyes (Even here he sees her).

When I write

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When I write the book about my life Gonna have a part where I meet you, girl! When they film the film about my life There'll be a bi...
20200415

Structure

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It struck the strict man, he could not strike The stricken child, not since the stroke. Instead he loves her left hand to stroke And say ...
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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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