Write... Recite... Then Get It Right! Poem by Denis Martindale

Behold the poem on its way.. from Heaven's Throne once more,
With all the Lord wants me to say... that's what the poem's for...
My mind's alert, I'm now on track... I'm tuning in again...
All other thoughts away I pack... I focus on my pen...
I hold it tight, on paper white... awaiting what must be...
Till each new phrase stays well in sight... with visions I must see...
Each comes to say hello on cue... with memories as well...
To form a story just for you... the tale I'm meant to tell...

The elegance of eloquence... the work tools of my trade...
The punctuation that makes sense... when text must be relayed...
The grammar skills that prove the best... the rhymes that fit the theme...
The final outcome God has blessed... each time I join His team...
And so, with each new leap of faith... another verse gets penned...
Another verse that must be saved... and treated as a friend...
Such that the poem goes... to websites that I choose...
With poems that are God's and mine... for readers to peruse...

Perchance to be recited, too... by readers young and old...
Yet most of these don't have a clue... till this they must be told...
Some poems can be sung in praise... to worship God above...
And also teach in wondrous ways... of Christ, the King of Love...
The thought of that does my heart good... you see, it's such a thrill...
To think, I'm doing what I should... in service to God's will...
Such that the Church of Christ on Earth... has some new songs to sing...
About our precious Saviour's worth... for He means everything!


Denis Martindale September 2019.