Poetry on 'Between'

Examples of my poetry can be found here:

• The Mark
• Between
• are / are not
• Worthship
• The Dance of Love
• Psalm
• Simeon
• Two poems on poets: David Jones and Dylan Thomas
• Alternative Nine Lessons and Carols
• Boundary Breaker
• History
• Meditation on Anselm Keifer's 'Palm Sunday'
• Stations of the Cross
• I Come Alive
• Stations of the Cross

Here is a taster of what you will find:

Genesis 3: 8–19

Hard labour in birth and work, sweat on our brow,
dirt on our hands. Thorns and thistles to prick and sting,
like death from a serpent's tongue,
till we return to the ground,
ashes to dust and dust to ashes.

Simeon

I have passed my days in expectation,
anticipation of a time which has not come.
Not yet come. Through long years of watching,
waiting, I have questioned my vocation,
understanding, calling, yet patience has formed
itself in me a virtue and I have been sustained.
And now in wintertime when the seed of life itself
seemed buried, my feet standing in my grave,
at the last moment, when hope had faded,
then you come; a new born life as mine is failing -
now, Lord, let your servant depart in peace.
Hope, when hope was dashed. Wonder, where
cynicism reigned. Spring buds in winter snow.
Patience rewarded. Divine trust renewed.

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Steve Scott - The Resurrection Of The Body.