Best Wesley Poems

A lady who once touched my mind 
in ways I could not decorously describe,
because she did so from afar
through her thoughts and words that shined like stars.

She wrote of love and hate and war
of mysterious mermaids and opening doors,  
to moonlight magic and midnight...

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Duck Eggs
Granville Wesley Clarke

May 14, 1921, ====July 19, 2011

The late Cracker or Perry

A golden heart stop beating at sunset July 19, 2011



Today my memory is a large duck egg

Yes, that large duck egg, you got from the  

Chicken coop, so that I could have...

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Smoke bellowed out the top
Of the trawler’s ships
As the merciless hunters loaded
Their harpoons with exploding tips

“There she blows,” a sailor shouted 
It was a female whale that surfaced and spouted
The engines roared in hot pursuit
The Captain aiming ready to shoot
He shoots, it explodes, making a...

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For one Lass of Wesley name...

'Twas Amazing this she said...
Of mindplay... thus so she'll say.
Yet tenacity was indeed her game...
This lass of Wesley fame.

As sail'd she did... down SeaWolf's sodden track...
T'ward those rhythms of our mind...
Thus so oft she'd say... her very-own right back...
True wonder...

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I am terrified I will die, Wesley said. It is raining.
Rain does not usually kill people, I replied.
But lightning can, and thunder is scary.
Lightning has never hit me, I replied.
It will probably get me, he said. His teeth were shaking.
He had been raised by a...

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Marvellously musical, 
     dazzlingly creative,   
          meditative sage.

We found explanation,
          imagination, 
     revelation, 
collaboration.

Within weeks work expanded
...

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I stretch my hands

as a thousand tongues

with
      the angels  sing
                             ...

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Susannah Wesley’s Apron


      No pilgrimage to Israel;
      No cloistered cell;
      No holy retreat.
      Not with ten tumbling children
      rumbling through...

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I
Why not love God, rather than people, too: the love of Creatures is the way to The Creator

II 
Wesley's hymns include: "Heavenly Adam, Life Divine,/change my nature into Thine,"/ : Risen Jesus is The Perfect Adam....

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“My chains fell off, my heart was free
I rose, went forth, and followed thee" 
-Charles Wesley (Amazing grace)


Divine light beckons towards thee,
though darkness blinds, wind howls a cry,
I hear no voice but you call me,
Christ, pray be my strength, be my guide!

Tredge my way anew...

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