River Rising

orchidee



Tune: North Coates

('O my Saviour lifted')

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Singing sweetly, simply

May your grace aid me

Spirit, sing from my heart

Illumine each part

 

Whether short or long song

I shall join the throng

Of the heavenly chorus

Which shall you true bless

 

Keep my heart in tune here

To love you more dear

Help me turn where discord

Back to you my Lord

 

Where hearts may be heavy

Come, enlighten, see

Spirit, Comforter sure

You grant us grace more

 

Rivers flow from hearts full

Or trickle where dull

Yet you do us revive

Where we feel deprive[d]

 

Given life eternal

By your mercies all

Give us wisdom, fulfil

In us your good will

 

 

 

 

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 2nd, 2018 01:52
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 6565 metre. Short lines, needing to focus thoughts in writing them. Or else, one has hardly begun, and the allocation of syllables per line is used up! So I am singing sweetly, simply then - not two cats fighting?!
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 25
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  • Michael Edwards

    If it's rising what is underneath it? Fine write as always Orchi

    • orchidee

      Thanks Michael. Erm dunno. It's like a river rising within us. Symbolic. Who is Mr Simon (Sim) Bolic?

      • Michael Edwards

        Sham's brother methinks 🙂

        • orchidee

          Any relation to the Berles family?

          • Michael Edwards

            Sham Berles was Sham Bolics maiden name. Didn't you meet her at Agincourt ?

          • Goldfinch60

            Good one once more Orchi, it ties in with the one I put on the site today.

            • orchidee

              Thanks Gold. I turned to it in me poems as an unpublished one. Well ,it's published now!

            • Heartwriter

              Sweet singing! A fine write.

              • orchidee

                Thanks Heart. Will me singing only be sweet for one day?! Then back to normal? heehee.

              • BRIAN & ANGELA

                THANKS AGAIN for a Spiritual Uplift STEVE ~ but I'm reading this at 11:30pm on Thursday Evening ! I have just spoken to ANGELA (who has an afternoon & evening Clinic) and she is reading it @ 10:30 am on FRIDAY MORNING ~ Time Zones always amaze me ~ especially in KENTUCKY USA where depending which side of MAIN STREET you are on its an hour earlier or an hours later ~ "ONLY IN KENTUCKY" where the vast majority voted for TRUMP ! Loved the ORGAN RECITAL and the Poem which endorsed the importance of SINGING & PRAISING lifting our SPIRITS and bringing us nearer to GOD. Some of my extended family are MUSIC TEACHERS and one works with the NATIONAL YOUTH CHOIR ~ AMEN ~ YOURS BRIAN & ANGELA Our FUSION is very topical ~ about ICE CREAM ! Please add a POEM ~ A & B !

                • orchidee

                  Thanks B&A.

                • w c


                  I was uplifted by your poem. I love the line where "Rivers flow from hearts full."

                  • orchidee

                    Thanks w c. So I suppose there has to be something IN them for it to flow OUT of them.



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