Lonely Likenesses

orchidee



Tune: Dominus Regit Me

('The King of love my Shepherd is')

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A Maundy [Thursday] feel, a town, quiet, bare

Something of you we do share

Lord, of your loneliness, sorrow

That you facing the cross did know

 

Yet cannot be same cross you bore

That they on Calvary saw

For you did suffer us to save

Your life there once for all you gave

 

Emotional the hurt and pain

But trust we shall meet again

We must for hopeful short-term bear

That then we see in person, share

 

A searching of our minds and hearts

Whatever ways, whate'er parts

We are affected, way, shape, form

Continuing on through the storm

 

We pray help to those poor, needy

And to the vulnerable be

If your love seems dimmed, it still shines

Through darkness with its beams divine

 

So altar stripped, Good Friday neared

And church of vessels gone, cleared*

But soon comes morn, resurrection

Your salvation to every one

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* This happens at the end of the 

service on Maundy Thursday.

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 29th, 2020 03:06
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.7.8.7. metre. The last line of each verse allows for 8 syllables to fit also. I wrote this soon after seeing the town, and a portable pop-up shop being dismantled. In verse 3, last line, I originally wrote: 'That then we good again may share'. But there is so much good being shared, even now, while we are not meeting in groups.
  • Category: Spiritual
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Comments3

  • Laura🌻

    Orchi,

    “Continuing on through the storm”, we’re all vulnerable! It’s a time to reflect, to be humble and to pray in our own way!
    Thank you for sharing.
    Stay safe and be well!

    ~Laura~🌻

    • orchidee

      Thanks Laura.

      • Laura🌻

        You’re welcome.
        Stay safe and be well!

      • ANGELA & BRIAN

        ANGELA HERE - Thanks Uncle Steve for lifting our Souls in the midst of a Pandemic ! One of my fave hymns and *Full of Celestial Promise* We had so so many plans for Easter - not just a Mega-Wedding but Honeymoon in Sevillia where they dress up like the KKK and the Men carry huge crosses for Penance - Awesome. We plan to go next year - Deo Volentes ! Your Poem reminds us that its Easter next week - seems almost like its been *Put on Hold* like everything else that is sacred ! Lots of Churches are puting Services on Line and the BBC gave added a Sunday AM Service - it was very good.

        Blessings to You and Your Isolated Irish Setter !
        Love in the Spirit ANGELA & BRIAN 💛💛💛💛💛

        • orchidee

          Thanks A&B. Yes, a bit early for Maundy time - well, this year anyway. Though some years Easter is the end of March. Snow flurries for you? a bracing time in the garden? - it's BST now, ya know!

        • Goldfinch60

          Good one Orchi.

          • orchidee

            Thanks Gold. You don't mind pottering in the garden in snow flurries? I have gloves on until about end April sometimes. It's the worst part that feels the cold on me - my hands.



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