Tag: Poetry

Dark But Lovely

Can this be? Tall grasses move in the breeze, whispering His name, brushing like kisses across my hands. Water-brooks murmur with every ripple, every bubble, effervescing wonders of His countenance. Wafting in dream-like essence across corridors of my heart, visions dance a dance of wooing love, enticing me. Does He not know? My face darkened…

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Melody of Tears, Joy Comes In The Morning

flowing droplets of promised delight, dispensing
cleansing, pulling moisture, effervescent trails
washing removing sadness with rays shining
ascending with waves, pulsating, overflowing

cleansing, pulling moisture, effervescent trails
among narrow passages, releasing, sparkling
ascending with waves, pulsating, overflowing
through cavernous openings of translucent color

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How Great Thou Art “O Store Gud” A Poetic Tribute

Carl Boberg, a young Swedish minister, wrote this hymn in poetic phrase while walking home from a church service in a thunder storm, nearly a hundred years ago. Imagine his surprise when he heard his poem sung to an old Swedish tune. Some forty years later a Russian pastor named Stuart Hine caught in a similar thunder-storm added to this magnificent hymn. Both men, lovers of God, opened their ordinary lives to leave a great heritage for the upcoming generations.

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