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Spoof Poetry: Or Gripes From The Chancel

Posted: Friday, 19th March 2010

No time for a blog today because we're about to go away for the weekend. So I thought I'd put up this poem for your enjoyment. It was sent to me some years ago.

IMMORAL, IMPOSSIBLE, GOD ONLY KNOWS

(Tune: St. Denio)

1. Immoral, impossible, God only knows how tenors and basses, sopranos, altos at service on Sunday are rarely the same as those who on Thursday to choir practice came.

2. Unready, unable to sight-read the notes, nor counting, nor blending, they tighten their throats. the descant so piercing is soaring above, the melody only a mother could love.

3.

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BEREAVEMENT: Site Map

Posted: Thursday, 1st January 1970

CATEGORY: BEREAVEMENT (12)

Dealing with the death of a loved one is always a matter of sorrow, grief and loss. If you’re coping with the loss of a child, those feelings are magnified. Making funeral arrangements in the midst of that grief and loss are no easy matter.

These articles and bereavement poetry have been written by one who knows. When my daughter died in suspicious circumstances, I knew all too well what it was to ‘weep for a while’. I understand the pain, the sense of grief and loss. But I also trust and believe that ‘death is but a door’.

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