Posts Tagged: Earth

Spring in an almost abandoned garden

On 29 April 2017 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Age, Earth, Flowers, Garden, Seasons

Songs set to photographs: a challenge

On 24 October 2016 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Sing a song of sowing
Carrying the seed
A song of hopeful planting
To meet a future need
Sing a song of letting go
And falling to the ground
Of burying that feels like loss
Still waiting to be found

There are no songs of famine
Hunger has no voice
The poor must scavenge what they can
While the rich are spoiled for choice
The stones of fear and anger
Will strike you from behind
Hunger hates the stranger
And cleaves to his own kind

Sing a song of exile
Loneliness and loss
A song of broken bridges
Nobody can cross
A song of desperation
For a word you can understand
A song of fearful labour
On someone else’s land

Then sing a song of marriage
The grace of bride and groom
The fruitful vine around the door
Joy within the room
A song of love and longing
For the children yet to be
A quiver-full of future hopes
Aimed at eternity

Sing a song of mourning
The shadows and the tombs
The bitterness of broken hearts
And disappointed wombs
Sing a song of empty words
And unexpressed despair
Of reaching out at midnight
For the one who isn’t there

Sing a song of waiting
Weeping on the earth
A song of expectation
Longing for new birth
Sing a song of patience
Of watching through the night
Sing those hours before the dawn
Then sing the coming light

Sing a song of harvest
Of one who bind the sheaves
And one who gleans along the edge
The good another leaves
Sing a song of winnowing
And taking into store
Of Barley heaped like glowing gold
All on the threshing floor

Sing out before the Lord of Life
Your songs of joy and pain
Sing of the years the locusts ate
That cannot come again
Sing to Him your hopes and fears
Your tales of right and wrong
And He will make your voice a part
Of His Redemption Song

©Malcolm Guite 2011
From the album "Dancing through the fire"
Cambridge Riffs Records
www.cambridgeriffs.co.uk/records

PHOTOGRAPHS
©Margot Krebs Neale
www.margot-krebs-neale.co.uk

Advent, Earth, Feelings, Malcolm Guite, Poetry, Prayer, Seasons, Song, Women

Summer!

On 21 June 2016 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Colour, Earth, Fruits, Months of the Year, Scent, Seasons

Self-portrait for Ash Wednesday

On 10 February 2016 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Memento mori
For dust you are and to dust you shall return.
And so they did some of my loved ones
And so will I

Can I accept just not knowing anything about the after
Can I live with the descriptions other people have made
People who do not know
Or should I enter the dark world of sleeping I have experienced
And find a glimpse there.

A life real only for me, but oh so real
Mysterious, no doubt
Controlled, not in the least

I have written a poem to my father
About him asleep because
He had expressed a fear he might not wake up one day
In the poem I said “Fear not, it is not death yet”

This summer my father died
It is death now
As he lay unconscious, this time we knew he would not wake
He sighed so expressively when Sister Jeanine, a nun, spoke to him and for him
Saying “I know what it is you want…
And you can ask for it
But God will decide.”
Yes, my father was ready and willing
Let us pray that when the time comes however early or unexpected
We shall be ready and willing.

Margot Krebs Neale

Earth, Poetry, Prayer, This Side and Beyond

Envol et Enracinement, Encore et toujours

On 18 August 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Air, Brittany, Earth

Prayer for Springtime

On 9 April 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Dear God,

We celebrate spring’s returning and the rejuvenation of the natural world.
Let us be moved by this vast and gentle insistence that goodness shall return,
that warmth and life shall succeed.
Help us to understand our place in this miracle.
Let us see that as a bird now builds its nest, bravely,
with bits and piece, so we must build human faith.
It is our simple duty;
it is the highest art;
it is our natural and vital role within the miracle of spring;
the creation of faith.

Amen

Michael Leunig When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God

Earth, Leunig, Poetry, Seasons

Envol et Enracinement

On 8 March 2015 by Margot Krebs Neale - Uncategorized

Air, Children, Earth, Poetry, Tales, Translation

Posts Tagged: Earth

Spring in an almost abandoned garden

Songs set to photographs: a challenge

Redemption Song (A song for Ruth)

Sing a song of sowing
Carrying the seed
A song of hopeful planting
To meet a future need
Sing a song of letting go
And falling to the ground
Of burying that feels like loss
Still waiting to be found

There are no songs of famine
Hunger has no voice
The poor must scavenge what they can
While the rich are spoiled for choice
The stones of fear and anger
Will strike you from behind
Hunger hates the stranger
And cleaves to his own kind

Sing a song of exile
Loneliness and loss
A song of broken bridges
Nobody can cross
A song of desperation
For a word you can understand
A song of fearful labour
On someone else’s land

Then sing a song of marriage
The grace of bride and groom
The fruitful vine around the door
Joy within the room
A song of love and longing
For the children yet to be
A quiver-full of future hopes
Aimed at eternity

Sing a song of mourning
The shadows and the tombs
The bitterness of broken hearts
And disappointed wombs
Sing a song of empty words
And unexpressed despair
Of reaching out at midnight
For the one who isn’t there

Sing a song of waiting
Weeping on the earth
A song of expectation
Longing for new birth
Sing a song of patience
Of watching through the night
Sing those hours before the dawn
Then sing the coming light

Sing a song of harvest
Of one who bind the sheaves
And one who gleans along the edge
The good another leaves
Sing a song of winnowing
And taking into store
Of Barley heaped like glowing gold
All on the threshing floor

Sing out before the Lord of Life
Your songs of joy and pain
Sing of the years the locusts ate
That cannot come again
Sing to Him your hopes and fears
Your tales of right and wrong
And He will make your voice a part
Of His Redemption Song

©Malcolm Guite 2011
From the album "Dancing through the fire"
Cambridge Riffs Records
www.cambridgeriffs.co.uk/records

PHOTOGRAPHS
©Margot Krebs Neale
www.margot-krebs-neale.co.uk

Summer!

Self-portrait for Ash Wednesday

Envol et Enracinement, Encore et toujours

Adrenature.

Prayer for Springtime

Envol et Enracinement

Posts Tagged: Earth

Spring in an almost abandoned garden

Songs set to photographs: a challenge

Redemption Song (A song for Ruth)

Sing a song of sowing Carrying the seed A song of hopeful planting To meet a future need Sing a song of letting go And falling to the ground Of burying that feels like loss Still waiting to be found

There are no songs of famine Hunger has no voice The poor must scavenge what they can While the rich are spoiled for choice The stones of fear and anger Will strike you from behind Hunger hates the stranger And cleaves to his own kind

Sing a song of exile Loneliness and loss A song of broken bridges Nobody can cross A song of desperation For a word you can understand A song of fearful labour On someone else’s land

Then sing a song of marriage The grace of bride and groom The fruitful vine around the door Joy within the room A song of love and longing For the children yet to be A quiver-full of future hopes Aimed at eternity

Sing a song of mourning The shadows and the tombs The bitterness of broken hearts And disappointed wombs Sing a song of empty words And unexpressed despair Of reaching out at midnight For the one who isn’t there

Sing a song of waiting Weeping on the earth A song of expectation Longing for new birth Sing a song of patience Of watching through the night Sing those hours before the dawn Then sing the coming light

Sing a song of harvest Of one who bind the sheaves And one who gleans along the edge The good another leaves Sing a song of winnowing And taking into store Of Barley heaped like glowing gold All on the threshing floor

Sing out before the Lord of Life Your songs of joy and pain Sing of the years the locusts ate That cannot come again Sing to Him your hopes and fears Your tales of right and wrong And He will make your voice a part Of His Redemption Song

©Malcolm Guite 2011 From the album "Dancing through the fire" Cambridge Riffs Records www.cambridgeriffs.co.uk/records

PHOTOGRAPHS ©Margot Krebs Neale www.margot-krebs-neale.co.uk

Summer!

Self-portrait for Ash Wednesday

Envol et Enracinement, Encore et toujours

Adrenature.

Prayer for Springtime

Envol et Enracinement

Sing a song of sowing
Carrying the seed
A song of hopeful planting
To meet a future need
Sing a song of letting go
And falling to the ground
Of burying that feels like loss
Still waiting to be found

There are no songs of famine
Hunger has no voice
The poor must scavenge what they can
While the rich are spoiled for choice
The stones of fear and anger
Will strike you from behind
Hunger hates the stranger
And cleaves to his own kind

Sing a song of exile
Loneliness and loss
A song of broken bridges
Nobody can cross
A song of desperation
For a word you can understand
A song of fearful labour
On someone else’s land

Then sing a song of marriage
The grace of bride and groom
The fruitful vine around the door
Joy within the room
A song of love and longing
For the children yet to be
A quiver-full of future hopes
Aimed at eternity

Sing a song of mourning
The shadows and the tombs
The bitterness of broken hearts
And disappointed wombs
Sing a song of empty words
And unexpressed despair
Of reaching out at midnight
For the one who isn’t there

Sing a song of waiting
Weeping on the earth
A song of expectation
Longing for new birth
Sing a song of patience
Of watching through the night
Sing those hours before the dawn
Then sing the coming light

Sing a song of harvest
Of one who bind the sheaves
And one who gleans along the edge
The good another leaves
Sing a song of winnowing
And taking into store
Of Barley heaped like glowing gold
All on the threshing floor

Sing out before the Lord of Life
Your songs of joy and pain
Sing of the years the locusts ate
That cannot come again
Sing to Him your hopes and fears
Your tales of right and wrong
And He will make your voice a part
Of His Redemption Song

©Malcolm Guite 2011
From the album "Dancing through the fire"
Cambridge Riffs Records
www.cambridgeriffs.co.uk/records

PHOTOGRAPHS
©Margot Krebs Neale
www.margot-krebs-neale.co.uk