My Poems Page 1
The Rainbow
The rain starts slowly at first
Then beats heavily on my heart.
It will not open
It is afraid
The Storm lashes
The lightening flashes
The thunder cracks
Everywhere is dark.
I long for the rainbow.
God’s promise
I cannot lift my head
It is too heavy
Too weighed down with cares
Look! Look!
Open your eyes!
There is a rainbow in the puddle.
Hengrave Hall
Fear!
Fear of illness – Fear of hospital Doctors and nurses all around
Tests -
The anaesthetic – the dreaded operation. Sickness and pain and death.
Surrounded by other peoples suffering.
Why? Why does this have to be?
Fear!
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Love!
Love of friends and relations. Thoughts and prayers of so many people.
Cards and flowers arriving by the handful
So many! Assurance that I’m not alone.
Cod cares about me And loves me. Faith made stronger through suffering.
Love!
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Peace! The peace of Hengrave
Beautiful house – Beautiful Church.
Gardens of utmost serenity and peace.
A Community filled with God’s love. The reconciliation of love and fear.
The peace fills all my being. I grow stronger day by day.
All will be well.
Peace!
I wrote this while staying at Hengrave in May 1987 following an operation at Addenbrookes for the removal of a brain tumour.
Despair.
A seed of fear
Without wings to fly.
Hope.
A seed of love
That is blown to heaven.