Poetry

Showing posts with label religious art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious art. Show all posts

Wednesday 21 September 2022

Way up on the wall

 Way up on the wall

Way up on the wall

I see you hanging there

God, God of all


Way up on the wall

Way up on the wall

I see the devil fighting

With St George or Paul

way up on the wall


Somewhere over there

Somewhere over there

Away from fear

But you bring it near

It is too close to call


He died for our sins

He died for our sins

But sins or not

It's getting hot

Underneath the skin


Way up on the wall

Way up on the wall

The stations of

The holy cross

Walking past the holy

Ghost

Way up on the Wall


And in the midst of life

We are sometimes lost

Sometimes found

Like a pound on the ground

But we can't count the cost

Way up on the wall


I'm waiting for the fall

Always waiting for the fall

When the curtain comes down

The king loses his crown

Way up on the wall


Way up on the wall

In the Church of 

Peter and Paul

Hanging there like a pear

Waiting for the apple to fall

Sunday 13 February 2022

Mothers of the Church

 The scars of Romance

And the Monster of invention


Are you a baptist

are a methodist

Are you a papist

Or are you a Catholic

Puritan, juritan, jurist or purist

Curist or diarist, communist or protestant

Oh tell me of your original sin

Tell the work ethic

I can pigeon hole you in