Sonnet

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy.
For thou shalt judge the people righteously.
We need never about our faith be coy.
Nor we ever tried a path over piously.

Psalm 67 is the prayer that we say every day.
Beautiful in its soaring rhetoric.
It ushers in the new parliamentary day.
And is more inspiring than the usual rhetoric.

I opened it by chance today.
It brought back memories, sitting alone in our village church.
In this much quieter place our fears in its verse we can lay.
And help us in our life’s search.

As we say, God be merciful upon us and bless us.
And cause his face to shine upon us.

Haiku

God be merciful
And bless us and cause his face
To shine upon us