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 Christian Poetry by Bud Morris

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 Last Edited on 6/27/09

 Christian Poems: (Sheet Music and Midi Files available for marked(*) Titles in "Music" section below)
Adversity
An Ambassador for Christ (Attempt at free verse)
Remember My Affliction  
Things Angles Desire to Look Into
Christ Arose  
Who Can Ascend?  
Be Assured  
Awesome God  °
How We Shall Bow   
No Second Chance  
Chosen *°
Christ In Us
What Have Christians Come To?
Come Quickly, Lord Jesus
Comfort
Communion
ConSequentially
Consider Him *
At the Cross
No Debating
Divine Emotions
If We Deny Him *
Shakespeare's Error
Evolution
The Feast of God's Provision
The Third Garden °
Garments of Salvation
Give Me Your Son
Genetic Engineering is Old-fashioned
Give Me a Drink
The Glory of God
The Great Stone Face
Superlative God *
The Hands of God
The Image of God
Hagar-A Heroine of the Faith
The Name of Jesus
Church Leadership
Let There Be Light
The Letter from Sennacherib
Consider the Lilies °
Linen and Spice
The Lord's Supper
The Miracles in John   (A poem on each Miracle)
The Maestro
The Magic of the Morning °
A Message from Manasseh
A Mile or Two
Nailprints *
The New is Better
No Room for the Savior
No Place to Stand
The Burnt Offering
Opening the Scriptures
God of Peace  
Sinai versus Pentecost
The Scoop on Prayer
What a Privelege God Gives Us
Psalms Nineteen
Speak to the Rock °
You Reap What You Sow °
This Man Receives Sinners
Redemption
We Remember   
A Call to Repentance (The 9/11 Tragedy) 
The Rose of Sharon
Insights
Entering God's Rest
He Satisfies the Longing Soul
Seated in the Heavenlies
Shechem and the Terebinth Trees
Sheep Without a Shepherd
Sin
The Son of God who Loved Me
Sons of God
Sprinkled with the Blood of Christ
Stephen
Sympathy
The Trial of the Ages  
Our New Song  
Just a Step From Heaven*
Thees and Thous  
Reach Out and Touch Someone  
Take Up Your Bed and Walk
Luke's Five "What Shall I Dos"  
Worship  
The Writing on the Wall  
When You're Passing Through the Waters

My First Poem  (I hope I'm getting better)

Christma
s Poems:
Christmas Inn                                                          
Christmas Relevance
Christmas Saga
Christmas Questions
The Kinetics of Christmas

The Gift on the Tree
The Gift on the Tree (Decorative)
I Can't Believe I Did It!
I Believe the Christmas Story
Merry Christmas, Everybody
Merry X-mas
Merry Christmyth
The Promise of Christmas
The Wonder Of Christmas
The Wonder Of Christmas (Decorative)
Christmas Joy

 
Poems and/or Texts on Photographs: (Low resolution ± 250 kb J-peg files for faster downloading for your enjoyment)
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Awesome God with Sunflowers
Chicory with Chicory Blossoms
Chosen with a Coneflower Blossom
Clothed (Mat 6:30/Isa 61:10 on a Wild Geranium)
Consider the Lilies with Lily Blossom
Deut 23:37 0n Mt St Helens

Seed head Illuminated by Setting Sun (II Cor. 4:6)
The Magic of the Morning on Spectacular Sunrise
My Affliction with wild ground flowers
My Rock
(Ps. 31:3) on Photo of Fisher Towers
Ps 36:5&6 on Mt Hood
The Third Garden with a Coneflower
Ps 90:12 0n Mt Rainier
Ps 101:2&8 0n Indian Paintbrush
Through the Waters with a Wild Violet
Transparency on a silhouetted Wild Geranium
A Sacred Aspiration on a Spire in the Sunset
Speak to the Rock on Rock Mountains, Zion N.P.
You Reap What You Sow with Milkweed Pods
Bottle in the Ditch (Gag)

Photographs:
(Presented at too low a resolution for making good copies in order to expedite downloading for viewing)
Roadside Coneflower/Delavan, Illinois
Yellow Coneflower/Green Valley, Ilinois
Roadside Daisies/Delavan, Illinois
Wild Lilly/Delavan, Illinois
Prickly Pear Cactus/Green Valley, Illinois
Chicory Blossom/Emden, Illinois
CILCO Stacks/Pekin, IL
Columbine/Colorado
Geometric Perfection in a Weed
Maroon Bell Mountains/Colorado
The Patriarchs/Zion National Park, /Utah
Red Mountain/Colorado
Rocky Mountain Peaks/Colorado
Garden of the Gods/Southern Illinois
Mt. Moroni--Zion National Park/Utah
Balanced Rock, Arches National Park/Utah
Delicate Arch at Dusk/Utah
Double Arch-Arches National Park/Utah
Onondaga Cave/Missouri
White Admiral Butterfly/Bear Lake, Colorado
Carillon/Springfield, Illinois


Music:
(Sheet Music requires opening Adobe Acrobat before downloading)                                      (Children's Songs are in Italics)
Chosen ---------------- Play midi file  
Superlative God ------- Play midi file  
Be Careful ------------ Play midi file  
My Song -------------- Play midi file
Consider Him ----------Play midi file  
Nail prints --------------Play midi file  
Heart song -------------Play midi file  
Redeem the Time ----- Play midi file  
If We Deny Him   ------------------  Play midi file  
Half a Step from Heaven  ----------- Play midi file  
Bible Jingle ---------------(Sing to Jingle Bells)
The Chicken Song
 
Christian Fiction:
A Keg of Trouble (109 page Christian "Novel"--209 KB)                            
Just Like Me (12 page Christmas short story)
Staircase to Heaven (70 page historical Christian "Western")
God Can Change Anyone (Western Short Story)
Endurance (Western Short Story)                                                                  
The Hangin' at Golgotha (Western Short Story)
Prayer (Western Short Story)                                                                        
Solitude (Western Short Story)
Spunk (Western Short Story)
For Better or for Worse (Western Short Story)
The Mountain Lily (Western Short Story)
 
 Secular Poems:
Country Doctor
Chicory ^
The Lottery Dream
Seasons
My Therapist
Alternative Medicine  
The Paradise
The Magic of the Morning  ^
Lonesome Biker's Ballad
The Gristly End of the Drive
Just Say No to HMOs  
Eleminopy
Empty Bottle in the Ditch
Wee Woolly Worms
Redneck Valentine Party
 
Scriptural Topics:
The Adornment of the Church
     A brief meditation on the "Jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and garments" in Genesis 24:53 and Exodus 3:22 & 12:35.
Grave Clothes
    Meditations on the difference between the resurrections of the Lord and Lazarus.  (Lazarus was raised in his grave clothes).
A Brief Outline of Biblical Prophecy
    A brief derivation of the basic premillennial prophetic scheme from the Scriptures.
The Book of Esther as Prophecy
    The remarkable similarity between the Book of Esther and post-rapture "Tribulation" prophecy. (Use above Brief Outline... for documentation).
It Was All There From The Beginning
    A suggestion that the Book of Genesis is organized as a sequential sketch of God's prophetic plan "from the beginning.".
God's Dealings with Israel
    A scriptural understanding of God's dealings with the nation of Israel helps put prophecy in its proper perspective.
Typical Teaching or Temper Tantrum
     An objection to the trend away from the typical teaching of the Scriptures
 
Links:
       www.Holy-Word.org  (KEYS TO BIBLE PROPHECY)--A supurb book on Biblical Prophecy
 
Feedback:
    Your comments and suggestions are genuinely appreciated.  Please send them to poetique@sbcglobal.net .

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