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Showing posts with label Poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poems. Show all posts
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Decoration days

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For us June is a month full of homecomings – cemetery decoration days, and gathering funds for upkeep. In acknowledgement of that, a poem fr...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Say “Amen” to God

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AMEN.   I cannot say, Beneath the pressure of life’s cares today, I joy in these; But I can say That I would rather walk this rugged way, If...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Infant Sorrow

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“Infant Sorrow,” by William Blake My mother groaned, my father wept, Into the dangerous world I leapt; Helpless, naked, piping loud, Li...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

My Friend

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An interesting poem I ran across, “My Friend,” by D. J. Higgins. It is built on the motif of the condemned blaming a Christian friend who ne...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

A seven year old’s poem

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Young Isaac Watts , long before he was “the father of English hymnody,” at age seven wrote an acrostic poem that spelled out the letters of ...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

On an Infant

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Most of the poems I include in my Sunday morning musings are hymns that have been set to music. As far as I know, the following poem has no...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Sourpuss Spotted

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Oh, the look upon your face as if you’ve sucked a lemon, your nose disjointed from its place, and ate a raw persimmon.
Sunday, August 19, 2018

The Plan of Salvation

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Excerpts from a very long poem by Jonas C. Sikes, 1929 Come all ye men of every age- Yea, all the noble and the sage, Let’s view the th...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

The Little Chap Who Follows Me

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“The Little Chap Who Follows Me!” A careful man I must always be, a little fellow follows me. I know I dare not go astray, for fear he’...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Let’s get it right

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“I was shocked when I learned this hymn was actually sung in Calvinist churches” – so says someone at ‘Truth and Song Christian Bookstore’ ...