Psalm 13

A vacuum within realities

Threatening rumblings

Growing more intense

Deep within me

Wars take place

After the last door has shut

The liquid of experience

Asks each question

And offers freedom

From regret and despair

Listen to your promises

For the sharing of your blood

Is the reason why I saw,

Forgiveness in your love

Psalm 12

I have seen justice

I have watched as others escaped

I have cherished goodness

I have seen weakness burn.

On falling leaves and rising suns

On something as lifeless as rock

On a far away persistent clock

On a granite boulder sealed to hold

A time when things were made to live

A furnace heat to purify silver

A fragment of a splintered heart

A place that once meant nothing

You remain faithful now and forever

You protect all that are oppressed

You reveal yourself in scarlet nails

You provided everything in your sacrifice

Psalm 11

The night is over

The air is calm and still

Through misty silent valleys

Gleaming water drops

Dance in anticipation

Shimmering

Tender, profound, forgiving love,

Rising into waves of praise

Imparts the perfume of heaven

Omnipotent grace

Dissolving beams of light

Infusing every heart

Shining within

The sun of righteousness.

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Psalm 11 - New Living Translation

Psalm 10

Dust sparkles in the sun

Small gleams on the bank

Gemstones silent in the moonlight

Angels on the ramparts

This piece of eternal sky

This place beyond today

For arms ached

Hands blistered

Leaf stains as thickened wine

Distant memories.

Written in a century of dreams

Hopes rise as a watchman

Beyond the guilty stains

Marble fire possessing veins

And wonders at the eloquence of love

For mercy melts granite hearts.

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Psalm 10 - New Living Translation

Psalm 9

Benches adorn a square of grass

Asleep by a public fountain

A tree stands as great as heaven

Chequered pattern dancing in the light

And not far from the old stone wall

Where paths and narrow porches

Decorate the shadows

And dance submerged in flint and glass

The earth lies flooded with glory

On a clear calm evening

In an act of praise

Abbey bells ring

For the dream becomes reality

Taste the bread of life

Accept the gift of grace

Sweet the moment immersed in love

For worship bursts with desire

In radiant shining glory.


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Psalm 9 - New Living Translation

Psalm 8

Vermilion sky

Radiant heavens brightness

Rainbows blossom in a dance

Rich clouds and warm rain

Floating feathers of light

From enchanting stars.

I wonder at the sovereign splendor

Mountains high and rising tides

Kiss the shores of diamond lakes

Reflecting the beauty of creation glances

A world of sweetness

This amethyst dawn shakes free

As warm sun-fingers

Are wrapped in hidden reverence

Declare to life the glory of love

Immersed under a banner of treasured grace.

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Psalm 8 - New Living Translation

Psalm 7

The mountains call

Flickering rainbows of light

Chasing the clouds

Onward in anticipation

Transported beyond

Fragile rising storms

Unsuspecting arrival

Contemplation of joy

Dangled before my eyes

A covenant of awe

Somehow understood

In the moment of participation

Reserved for me

An undoubted pleasure

Eternal protection.


Psalm 7 - New Living Translation

Psalm 6

Between lost and becoming

Echo so intense

Meandering like shadows

Into a drowned future

Drifting dreamily towards

Old scenes

Old friends

Old days

The joyful praise of a vision

Room and roofs of refuge

Have become my dwelling

In the doorway of your house

Where I find your unfailing love

And weeping

And tears

And hopelessness

Of a suffered life

Is healed

In the promise of rest

And held with the shield of love

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Psalm 6 - New Living Translation

Psalm 5

Who will bear testimony to

This life-renewing discovery,

Falling transcendence

Love, forgiveness, renewal,

On an empty hillside

I never heard a sound

Failure, loss, despair

Hung from a single thread

Pardon, glorious certainty, union,

Everything has changed

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Psalm 5 - New Living Translation

Psalm 4

A golden leaf spins

Dances in the autumn wind

Drifts of marble rain

Sweeps across the path

As clouds so low I can barely see

The bright morning light

As I silently stumble

And trust the harvest

Spring follows winter

Joy comes after pain

Loss turns to gain

Death changed to life eternal

And after that moment

The peace of dreams

Your face in the mirror

Beyond hope

Sown in a crimson thread

For when I call on you

You declare me innocent

And shower me with your abundance.

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Psalm 4 - New Living Translation

Psalm 3

In the coolness and freshness of the morning

Step into the garden

Breathe the fragrance of the breeze

The light of beauty

And find refreshment

And renewal

And in creation’s aroma

The presence of His mighty power

In deep awareness that He is good

His blessings abound

And in the heart and soul

Of abounding love

I am forever secure.

Psalm 3 - NLT

Psalm 2

Remove the bandages

From this chasm of pain

The prism of separation,

For with freedom of vision

One word is infinite

to exalt all things

 And In dancing sunlight

I see things whole.

Speak the word

Listen to the truth

His planned expression of love

For He who paints the sunset

So gloriously in the sky

Enraptures my soul

Captures my heart

And declares,

I am Precious to Him

He has promised

To turn my crisis into an oasis

Of goodness and mercy.

Psalm 2 - NLT

Psalm 1

Golden glory

Delighting the eye

Captivating the heart

As the seasons glistens

In rich white blossom

and emerald river banks

exploding

in a blaze of graceful yellow chains

responding to the brightness of the sun

with eyes wide open

to the imperceptible river of grace

flowing

overwhelming every second

dissolved with the joy of love

and held in my Fathers embrace.

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Psalm 1 - New Living