Neil's Poesy

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

After The Storm (translation and poem)

The ship lies a wreck out there, Doused with tears on a nearby rock, Lost is its drape and clothes flair, Ripped from mast and beams across. O'erturned half to the starboard's side And with rails submerged beneath sea. The land receives with every tide, Langushed pleas of agony. Water gushed as... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Prayer (translation and poem)

Gentle Father, You who tower In Your Heaven, light enhanced-- You, whose justice puts forth crowns, or With an eternal life grants: Strengthen us, illumine, we beg, Give us the will, brave with faith, That our deeds must here be pegged, Shooting roots, to wax, grow straight! Stand against rivals in... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Lift Your Voice, You Dear Christian Church (translation and poem)

Li ft your voice, you dear Christian church, Send a notice o'er the earth! Heed you not what folks the ground'll work: Mere lies, while enmity grows, Why wait you a little bit Hundreds of years kept quiet, Before you rise against all Evil powers which must no doubt fall? Rise and speak In west and... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 10, 2012

O, Send Us A Little Peace (translation and poem)

The sighs in closed quarters, there one pleads so softly And tears will be thrown all times, both late and early; That rise up to Heaven, in the south, in the north, A slicing distress pitted, hopes for peace on earth. There kneels in a chamber, and there kneels in the church, There is shown against... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

A Poem For The Day (translation and poem)

Oh, as it is dark in the world; The night all around broods and swirls. Heathendom's gloom and sorcery Decks coarsely upon earth unfurled. Falsehood and vice and all that brings Mankind down in sins precipice, Impedes all of action and thought That draws on God and light's promise. Blood and fire... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Is War Of God--(translation and poem)

I s war of God, who sent His sole Son's peace? Is hate of God, who defines charity? Are quarrels, strife, fear, pillage and folks robbed And nations' rage the Lord's message and law? Is fire and blood of one who merely loves And returns evil with good from above? Do barbarism, tyranny and cunning... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

So Flies There A Message (translation and poem)

( written when the world war broke out) So flies there a message o'er the earth. It took us with fear and terro. We stop, ask, and ask and for an answer search; The answer was one's, where we turned from our perch. And here cannons sounded and thundered And rattled of bright hoisted steel. Ja, here... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Evening Spirit (translation and poem)

(From memories of land up there north) There hums a soft, shifting solar breeze, That soothes my sweltering brow. The scents from the forest on ridge and peak, From meadow o'er moor and by sound. I sit in dreams by the fjord's expanse, While the day in quiet does end, While Arkturus lights, its... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

See Flowers And Grass--(translation and poem)

See flowers and grass over expanse and field in the summer's charming flora! The fragrance so life fresh the whole day beheld, While the birds their singing voices, like sweet harps, called and gladdened both a bit and more. But truth is said, in spite of voice bearing pain, in spite of life in... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Spring (translation and poem)

Now have we after spring's mild down-sweeping wind And gilded rays' sheen on peaks where air is thin. Now have we after grass and blooms on fields And dew on leaves and lustrous bird song calls. Now it spires and grows behind winter's torpor, Now the lights, joys in deeps and dales, they flicker,... Sign in to see full entry.

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