|
This
alphabetic listing includes all poems and other pieces written by Godfrey Rust on the WordsOut site. Poems by others in the collection Poems I'd like to have written are not included.
|
31.12.99
A
brief history of God
A child is
born
A Laodicean estate agent writes
A modern wife
A shilling a day (for Mollie
Clay)
Aberdaron
About time
Absalom
accomplices
Act One
Adam
Adore your
door
Advice
on standardization
All the
stops
An exponent of the
Prosperity Gospel replies to the Beatitudes
And can it
be (for
the Rev Tessa Rust)
Angelico
animal
Apocalypso
Appendix out (for Jon, Ros and Chris Wheeler)
Arithmetic
Ascended
At Grasmere
At Mawgan
Porth
Babel
Baby crying
Beirut
Ben Franklin
Bernhard Langer approaches Sarajevo
birth
(from Prayers of hope)
Body count
Body odour
Breaking
the chains
Brief
encounter
Bring
on the dancing vicar
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
Dark Rider collects the newspaper
Dear son
Disciple
Donatello
Dream
Drunkard
Duomo
Economics
Eternity
Eve
Fancy that
First lesson
Five candles
Fixed
flight
(from Prayers of hope)
Four truths
From
where she lies
Galileo and the four moons of Jupiter
Gary (The fastest hoover in the West) (for Gary
Fenton)
Homage to Bonnie Scotland
Gironde
Glasnost, 1993
Harvest
Has
anybody here seen Thomas?
Heaven (sequence of
4)
Heaven
in within you
Herod's
last request
Higgs boson
Homage
au Professor (poems for Colin Duckworth)
Homage
to Matt Read
Home
improvements
Hope Cove Diary
I
never shall go back
In Foyle's bookshop
In his hands
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
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury (for Mark
Bratton)
Lament of the Parish Weekend Administrator (for Mark Rand)
legacy
Light of
the world
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
Love
reaches out
Magi
magi
(from Prayers of hope)
Magi (sequence
of 4)
Maps
Mary
Mary Lazarus' Birthday Calypso
masterpiece
Maureen
Men of Ealing (for Gill
Dallow)
Miracles
Mischief
Monster
Mr Gallup
reports
My life with Tom Lehrer
Nappy
Christmas
New heaven,
new earth
No
rest for the wicked
Normandy
Notes
for a biography
Nuclear
family
Nursery Haiku
Ode to Joy (for Joy Atkins)
Oh, hell
Only wood
Osama
Out of Eden
Paul’s First Fax to the Thessalonians
Parish
Weekend Limericks
Peace
Phantom
Philosophy
Pleasure
Poem
for Christmas Eve
Postcards
from Florence (sequence
of 5)
Postmodern
Postscript
Prayers of
hope
Precautions
Probability
Promises
Questions
Reaching
Remembrance (for Michael
Adams, 2009)
Revised version
Ride on
Riots by Reebok, Blood by Benetton
Roneo and
Juliet
Runner
Santa Croce
Sarah's Farewell Songs (for Sarah
Hobbs)
Saved in
Japan
Savonarola
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
Song at the start of a century
Sounds of
Stanley (for Stan Dakin and others)
Squiggles
St Mellitus'
Dance (for
John Hereward)
Strawberry
Lodge
Synod
Teddy Bears
The
Annunciation
The appeal
The astronomers
The
Ballad of John and Anne Duck (for
John and Anne Duckworth)
The
comfort of the rain
The cure
The
dangers of theology
The
Devil's Tinderbox
The driving
seat
The epiphany
The fall
The
Fat Controller Calypso (for Graham Churchill)
The
flight into Egypt
The
Flying Professor
The gifts
The
housewife's evening prayer
The journey
The
journey of the Magi (cont.)
The
last straw (sequence of 8)
The Magi
The
man who got on at Ealing
The
Naming of Professors
The nativity
The
optimist explains
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 sailing
of the ark
The Secret Diary of Ian Fishwick, Aged 43 3/4
The shepherds
The Sound of
Dallow (for
Gill Dallow)
The
Trinity monologue
The wonderful
thing about Bavvers (for John Bavington)
The word
The word’s out
They
had no credit cards
thief
Told you so
Treasures
in heaven
Trialogue
Truce
with the Furies
Two down
Unto
us a child is born
Vengeance
Visitor
Vocation
wager
Welcome
Reverend Pete (for
Peter Mackenzie)
Welcome
to the real world
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
|