wordsout by godfrey rust

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Includes all works by Godfrey Rust on the wordsout site.

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A brief history of God

A child is born

A Christmas commentary (sequence of 6)

A Laodicean estate agent writes

A modern wife

A shilling a day (for Mollie Clay)

Aberdaron

About time

Absalom

accomplices (from Words from the cross)

Act One

Adam

Adore your door

Advice on standardization

All the stops

An Anglo-American Dream (for Joel Rust and Laura       

     Fontanills)

An exponent of the Prosperity Gospel replies to the 
     Beatitudes
 

And can it be (for the Rev Tessa Rust)

Angelico (from Postcards from Florence)

animal (from Words from the cross)

Apocalypso

Appendix out (for Jon, Ros and Chris Wheeler)

Arithmetic

Ascended

At Grasmere

At Mawgan Porth

Babel

Baby crying

Balloon man

Beirut

Ben Franklin

Bernhard Langer approaches Sarajevo

Big man Steve (for Steve Taylor)

birth (from Prayers of hope)

Body count (for Graham Rust)

Body odour

Breaking the chains

Brief encounter

Bring on the dancing vicar

Carina takes it all (for John and Carina Persson)

Carol (for Carol Vigurs)

Carrick

Choosing a wife

Church is a verb

Climbing to Everest(for Geoff Longden)

Come on in, the sofa’s lovely

Come, Immanuel

Communiqué

Convert

Crabs

Creed

Dancing (from A Christmas commentary)

Dark Rider collects the newspaper

Dear son

Detached

Disciple

Donatello (from Postcards from Florence)

Dream

Drunkard

Duomo (from Postcards from Florence)

Economics

Epilogue to A Christmas commentary

Eternity

Eulogies (open-ended sequence)

Eve

Fancy that

First lesson

Five candles

Fixed

flight (from Prayers of hope)

Fly with the Eagles

Fly with the Eagles (2013 version)

Forget-me-nots (for Bob Rust)

Four truths

From Poetry to Art, a punrequited love poem

From where she lies

Gabriel's revelation

Galileo and the four moons of Jupiter

Gary (The fastest hoover in the West)(for Gary Fenton)

Glasnost, 1993

Harvest

Has anybody here seen Thomas?

heaven (sequence of 4)

heaven in within you (from heaven)

Herod's last request

Higgs boson

Homage au professor (poems for Colin Duckworth)

Homage to Bonnie Scotland

Homage to Matt Read 

Home improvements

Hope Cove Diary

How meeting Geoff Shattock changed my life completely

I never shall go back

In Foyle's bookshop

In his hands

Incarnate  

Invocation

Joan's Birthday Picnic (for Joan Hills)

Joseph and the shepherds

Judas calls Room Service

Just As She Is (for Helen MacIntosh)

Keys

kingdom of heaven (from heaven)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury (for Mark Bratton)

Lament of the Parish Weekend Administrator (for 

     Mark Rand)

legacy (from Words from the cross)

Light of the world

Limericks for two ill-Eagles

Lines written in honour of John and Deborah Chapman

Lines written in praise of Donald W. McRobbie

Lines written in praise of Ellen Breton
Lines written in praise of Geoffrey Shattock 

Lines written in praise of Michael and Kate Coulson

Liz's walk (for Liz Reynolds)

Love reaches out

magi (from Prayers of hope)

Magi (sequence of 4)

Magpies

Maps

Mary

Mary Lazarus' Birthday Calypso

masterpiece (from Words from the cross)

Maureen

Maybe

Men of Ealing (for Gill Dallow)

Miracles

Mischief

Modus operandi (from A Christmas commentary)

Monster

Mr Gallup reports

My life with Tom Lehrer

Nanda's calypso

Nappy Christmas

Natural

new heaven new earth (from heaven)

News just in

No rest for the wicked

Normandy

Not The Basic Method (for Andrew Cornes)

Notes for a biography

Nuclear family

Numbers game

Nursery Haiku

Ode to Joy (for Joy Atkins)

Oh, hell

Only wood

Osama   

Out of Eden

Paddington's payback (for Abigail Brown)

Paul’s First Fax to the Thessalonians

Parish Weekend Limericks

Peace

Perception

Phantom

Philosophy

Pleasure

Poem for Christmas Eve

Poems for BEAT (series)

Postcards from Florence (sequence of 5)

Postmodern

Postscript

Prayers of hope (sequence of 4)

Precautions

Probability

Prologue to A Christmas commentary

Promises

Questions (for John Duckworth)

Reaching

Remembrance (for Michael Adams)

Revised version

Ride on

Riots by Reebok, Blood by Benetton

Roger Simpson's Calypso

Roneo and Juliet

Runner

Santa Croce (from Postcards from Florence)

Sarah's Farewell Songs (for Sarah Hobbs)

Saved in Japan
Savonarola (from Postcards from Florence)

September 11, 2001 (complete version)

September 11, 2001 (short version)

September 11, 2001 (tenth anniversary version) 

shepherds (from Prayers of hope)

Showbiz

Signs

Skin

son (from Words from the cross)
Song at the start of a century

Sounds of Stanley (for Stan Dakin and others)

Squiggles

St Mellitus' Dance (for John Hereward)

Stanley Dakin's Broken Hearts Club Band (for            Stan and Judith Dakin)

Strawberry Lodge

Sunflowers

Synod

Teddy Bears

The annunciation (from The last straw)

The appeal

The astronomers

The ballad of Flatfoot Dave

The Ballad of John and Anne Duck (for John and 
     Anne Duckworth)

The Bewespeak Calypso

The Breton saints

The comfort of the rain

The coming of Age

The counselled husband calypso

The cure

The dangers of theology

The Devil's Tinderbox

The driving seat

The epiphany (from Magi)

The fall (from The last straw)

The Fat Controller Calypso (for Graham Churchill)

The flight into Egypt (from The last straw)

The Flying Professor

The fourth king's gift (from A Christmas commentary)

The gifts (from Magi)

The (good)will of the people

The housewife's evening prayer

The idol

The journey (from Magi)

The journey of the magi (cont.)

The last straw (sequence of 8)

The last judgment of Amy Winehouse

The last temptation of Richard Dawkins

The LinkUp calypso

The magi (from The last straw)

The magi at the empty manger

The man who got on at Ealing

The Naming of Professors

The nativity (from The last straw)

The optimist explains

The Pilgrim Hall calypso

The place where socks go

The poem’s cv

The professor at eighty

The professor at work

The professor departed

The professor gets plastered

The professor meets his match

The promise (from The last straw)

The realist unsuccessfully analyses an

     abstract painting

The sailing of the ark

The sceptical shepherd

The Secret Diary of Ian Fishwick, Aged 43 3/4

The seekers (from Magi)

The shepherds (from The last straw)

The Sound of Dallow (for Gill Dallow)

The Trinity monologue

The wonderful thing about Bavvers (for John 

     Bavington)

The word (from The last straw)

The word’s out

They had no credit cards

thief (from Words from the cross)

Thoroughly Modern Sally (for Sally Hitchiner)

Told you so

treasure in heaven (from heaven)

Trialogue

Truce with the Furies

True Brit (the ballad of Andrew Cornes)

Two down

Vengeance

Visitor

Vocation

wager (from Words from the cross)

Waiting for the Professor (for Colin Duckworth)

Welcome Reverend Pete (for Peter Mackenzie)

Welcome to the real world

What kind of Messiah? (from A Christmas commentary)

Where there's a Will (for Will Donaldson)

Wingco, RIP (for Tom Bradley)

Words from the cross (sequence of 7)

You can't be too careful