WordsOut poems by Godfrey Rust  | home    


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