The Christmas feast is ready The table groans with abundance The turkey smells like heaven With lashings of gravy and stuffing Roasted vegetables piled high Plum pudding flames To oohs and ahs of delight Crackers pop, paper hats adorn happy heads Raise your glasses to a merry Christmas While outside, noses press to the…
All I want for Christmas
We never wrote to Father Christmas It wasn’t the thing to do If I was to write a letter It’s Jesus I’d send it to Lord, restore my health And so restore my life Give me some patience and kindness To weather the world and its strife Open eyes with which to see Who…
The Gift
Wise men saw a star in the east And went looking for a king A shot in the dark A journey of faith Wise men found a child And knew him for the lord of all But they did not know That their gifts could not match his His gift was shiny like gold…
Remember at Christmas
It’s hard to take, for those alone All the appropriate feelings Happiness, good cheer, family and friends Smiles make pain scream all the louder So share your Christmas blessings With the bereaved, the sick, the sad Shine a little light in their darkness At the birth of grace Give hope to the hopeless God came…
Home at last
I am a stranger in this place A traveller on a journey home I carry nothing. It wouldn’t do To be burdened with inconsequential things Baggage can be discarded Pride and all folly Are excess on this final flight A new beginning, and I feel a thrill of anticipation A lifelong promise soon to be…
Petrichor
Love and life evaporating Drying out in the blazing heat of pain Leaving the spirit parched, desiccated Praying for relief Praying for a break to this drought Then heaven opens Blessings fall, fresh showers Anoint a wilted heart Unfurling petals receive this rain And bask in its scent Petrichor for the soul
Salvation is nearer
The world croons and calls Dances and mesmerizes So sweet, so very alluring Do what thou wilt, taste forbidden fruit Be yourself, know yourself, discover yourself Self, self, self … But this is mere delusion And focused within, we find only darkness We need to lift our eyes outwards and upwards And there is…
The quality of mercy
Mercy is in short supply Shoved aside for cold pragmatism Forgiveness shunned as a fool’s game The mob howl in the Colosseum Lusting for blood If it’s done to them it won’t be done to me Are you sure? Are you safe? Mercy, the sign of civilization The sign of humanity The…
Future
Walking into the fog It’s a real pea souper Can’t see a foot in front of my face Glimpses of possibilities Murky and unclear Can’t see the ground on which I’m walking Might fall off a cliff any moment Feeling my way like one blind Living presently Now is all that matters Leave the future…
Peace
Looking for peace In a world that won’t be still I turn to God And wait for answers the lily of the field allows worry to float away blown by the wind beyond sight and thought Lord, I am not a lily And I am afraid Don’t let me fall
Eclectic Assemblage 