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Christmas Is Really For The Children
What with all the Holy Week and Easter Prep and a funeral thrown in for good measure the blog has had to take a back seat again – however at the school Assembly on Friday this poem, which is new to me,...
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Sea Sunday
Today being Sea Sunday I used John Masefeild’s poem ‘Sea Fever’ to contrast the idyll of pottering about on boats with the harsh reality of a seafarers life. Now as he is not yet dead 100 years I can...
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Riddling With the Animals
A verse from the psalm from yesterdays evening office as being playing round my head all night. I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp. Psalm 49:4 As usual...
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60 Years On
In a more sedate manner, although no less glorious, at St Andrew’s on Sunday evening celebrations were also afoot this time nothing to do with animals, but rather an Evensong to mark the Queen’s...
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Stripped Bare for Lent
Stripped bare for Lent down to the framework God has built, the skeleton that is to be re-clothed. Re-clothed with new shoots fresh growth and God given beauty. Day by day the purple of sorrow will...
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The Donkey
When fishes flew and forests walked and figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood then surely I was born; With monstrous head and sickening cry and ears like errant wings, The devil’s...
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Advent Light
Silver beams pierce the night like arrows in flight. It is not dark - there not an absence of light, only a surfeit of perception. A glow traveling through time, through space. Dusting the earth....
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Onward
A dream. Another angel, another journey. This time escape, to a strange land. Peace at last? This modern sculpture is behind the choir in Beverly Minster. For something made of such hard static...
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Paradise Lost
Missiles arc, no hope or peace, no promise of never again, no end of metal rain. Seas of blood, cries of pain, unseen, unheard? The land once declared as paradise is just a killing field.Filed under:...
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Ever Old and Ever New
O God who transcends all, how can we call you by any name? What hymn of praise can we sing of you? No name can describe you. What mind can grasp you? No intellect can conceive you. You are beyond...
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National Poetry Day – Night of Sorrow
Today is National Poetry Day, on occasions I dabble in a bit of poetry and I thought I might do so today. For many people poetry is all about pastoral poems, but what is below is far from pastoral,...
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Many years ago – I have never forgotten, nor could I –I was felled to the ground at the forest’s edge,Severed from my roots.From all I had known.The indignity of being dragged by a mule,along dusty...
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Whenever I see an old graveyard I like to take a wander through it reading the gravestones. You can find out a lot about a community and its history by doing so. While away last week I wandered round...
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