rain today
how soon we reach
the end of what we know
and how deep
faith continues to grow
Poem from October 2014
Category: Empathy
“hear my prayer”
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness:
thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress;
have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalm 4: 1
music and then
music and then
the music of silence
poetry books
Words from the Psalms
As I worked on this morning’s post, From Psalm 25, I thought again about the wonderful vocabulary list that can be created from the Psalms. For our series in 2020, I quoted from the King James Version. Over the years, I have read from different Bible translations.
soul
mercies
lovingkindnesses
“Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.”
An old haiku:
Deep calleth unto deep *
filling my heart with hope
greater than my mind
* The first line of my poem is from Psalm 42: 7 (KJV).
From Psalm 25
Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.
Remember, O LORD,
thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses;
for they have been ever of old.
Psalm 25: 1, 6
country cemetery
country cemetery
trumpet vines
growing taller
than the gravestones
The small cemeteries by the country roads are maintained with care.
My poem was published by Time Of Singing Summer 2012.
short summer poems
summer morning
green plants in sun
on Grace’s straw chest
For my grandmother Grace
Haiku Art Site and Grief And Acceptance
summer evening
quiet music and
a few Psalms
new evergreen growth
still in the sun
The day is thine, the night also is thine:
thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
Psalm 74: 16-17 (KJV)
hummingbird
and hosta flowers
by the windows
in the sunroom
stillness
Poems From Psalms And Nature 