Poetry and Worship
There are a couple of very stimulating posts on poetry and worship at Gathering and Scattered and Dancing Scarecrow. And I appreciated this incisive quote from the latter, 'Too much modern worship is prosaic. The majority of modern worship songs are as "dumbed down", repetitive and unimaginative as a Stock Aitken & Waterman, Hit Factory pop record. Worship, if it is to reflect divinity, must strive for the poetic glories, whether they be Bob Dylan or Beethoven, Duffy or Shakespeare.'
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A few years ago, our organist also gave me a photocopy of a worship song called "Jesus." The words were "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, (line ending),Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. It was Copyright 1984, I think. More a mantra than a poem?
[PS first coment was just this one with a typo!]