Backward Mutters

Category: poetry

  • Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    The eldest sings with Wingate University’s University Singers. During their spring concert, they performed “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree”. The text is based on two passages of Scripture. The first is from Revelation 22:2 which reads: ‘On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops…

  • One Morning along the Louisville Riverwalk

    Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the wood* of life, bearing twelve crops…

  • "If All Our Hopes and All Our Fears" by John Bowring

    If all our hopes and all our fears Were prisoned in life’s narrow bound; If, travellers through this vale of tears, We saw no better world beyond; O what could check the rising sigh, What earthly thing could pleasure give? O who would venture then to die- O who could…

  • A Dickens of an Evening

    My wife wrote the following poem after our family visited the NC Shakespeare Festival’s A Christmas Carol. She also drew the sketch to the right. She blogs and posts here work on her own blog drawn2life. You can see more of her work here. A Dickens Eve A gentle waterfall…

  • "…loved I not honor more."

    To Lucasta, Going to the Wars 1Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkind,That from the NunneryOf thy chaste breast, and quiet mind,To War and Arms I flee. 2True, a new Mistress now I chase,The first Foe in the Field;And with a stronger Faith embraceA Sword, a Horse, a Shield. 3Yet…