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Coats at your feet
Coats at your feet
by Marjorie Dobson
Dramatic monologue/poem: Coats at your feet Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A Acts 7: 55 – 60 How could you just stand there watching with hatred and anger in your heart, but your eyes unaffected by the sight of that cruel death? How could you be so callous and calculating, plotting …
Living stones
Living stones
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Living stones Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A 1 Peter 2: 2-10 Some stones were never meant for building,?? being sharp and flinty; jagged and easily broken. Unreliable. Others are round and smooth. They slip and slide, one against another: never bound together. Always moving.…
Thomas
Thomas
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem/Dramatic Monologue: Thomas Second Sunday of Easter - John 20: 19 – 31 It must have felt like walking into a nightmare. All those sensible, down-to-earth friends of yours, ranting and raving; telling you the most bizarre stories; jumping up and down with excitement, flinging …
Remembering - Part of your memory
Remembering - Part of your memory
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Remembering - Part of your memory Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24. 13-35 Part of your memory will be rooted in this place – the time of sorrow that you thought would never end. Part of your life will always be linked to this pilgrimage – this remembrance...
jesus born an outcast
jesus born an outcast
by David Perry
Poem accompanied by picture of stained glass window showing the birth of Jesus, with a wooden carving of his crucifixion and a figure of a woman holding spices for his burial placed on the window ledge in front of it. Click here to see a full version of the Image. Click here to s…
Christmas Child
Christmas Child
by Andrew Gadd
Christmas poem, a tongue-in-cheek comparison of the sparseness of the stable with the ornate jamboree that Christmas has become. Christmas Child So the stable was dirty, draughty and bare The manger was rickety, half-filled with straw The oil lamp was feeble and gave out no warmt…
Do it again, Lord, do it again!
Do it again, Lord, do it again!
by Reg Ellis
DO IT AGAIN, LORD, DO IT AGAIN! (From words written by Max Lucado after the terrorist attack of 11thSeptember 2001) Dear Lord, as the innocent are interred, Our innocence is interred as well. The belief in our safety is shattered, We’re not unlike the rest of the World. We rememb…
Poem:Sing a new song
Poem:Sing a new song
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Sing a new song (This piece should be spoken with a lilting rhythm and could be done by one person with a change of tone for each of the two speakers. But it has been marked to be read by two people, following the same rhythmic pattern. Will need rehearsal!) A. Sing a new s…
My father, Jacob