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These poems are the fruit of almost 30 years of occasional writing. They were written as private reflections, or for friends and family. I hadn't intended them for public consumption, but people have told me now and then that they thought I should share them, so I have. I shall add new poems if and when I write them, though a lot of my words tend to go into sermons these days!
If you find something you like and find helpful, you are welcome to use it and share it, but please make sure my name stays attached to it.
The poems are posted in no particular order, but the labels - click on links below - should help you find poems on various themes.
There are also separate pages on this blog containing links to music composed by my husband, Philip, and to Christmas stories which I have told here at Seal in place of sermons on Christmas Day.

Monday 6 June 2016

“the rain is over and gone…” *


“the rain is over and gone…” *


You and I
have both weathered the storms.

In our separate arks
on distant oceans
we have listened to the lash of rain
and waited in the darkness
as the engulfing waters rose.

But now,
miraculously,
we have made landfall
on the same shore
and together,
wondering,
we step through the flotsam
in a bird-sung dawn.

  
*(Song 2.10-12)


For my husband, Philip, as we prepared to get married. We had this reading from the Song of Songs at our wedding.
Oct 30, 2003  

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