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Geoffrey Horsefall
 

When Jim Stansfield became ill Geoff stepped in
He’d played our organ several times before
He knew our services and the post seemed open

To a regular member of the choir.

Over the years this his contribution

Became far more distinguished and special.

He’d lighten up the solomn Communion

With “Happy Birthday” tunes for one and all.

Sad to say, our choir has now fizzled out

No more anthems and no more vocal leads.

For some that’s what each Sunday was about

To each and everyone their special needs.

Geoff’s lost chord quest finds him searching for peace:

This trembling silence which may never cease.

 
 

In Conclusion
 

During most Services on Sunday mornings
Our youngest members spend their time upstairs.
They glean the essense of our lower learnings

Made while wading through hymns, sermons and prayers.

After communion’s done and people blessed,

Children and teachers explain their upper room.

Our failures and successes all confessed

Resurrected new from old fashioned tomb

Holy Spirit flocks round our minds as birds

Through images or playing Christian games

Wisdom imerges from these youngsters’ words

Like those of Jesus Christ heard by St James

“There is no entry into God’s Kingdom

Except throuugh the place these children come from”.

 
 

Nitty Nora
 

Sheila Hirst is our stalwart Churchwarden
Thirty years she was called “Nitty Nora”;
Serving the world as a District Nurse then,

Still known today by most folk who saw her.

Staccato phrases from her new abode

Just down the 646 in Mytholmroyd

Serve old folks’ souls in a different way;

Wafer and wine cure many an aching void.

Events need careful organisation;.

New folk need noticing and welcoming;

Troubles shared and joys need celebration,

Sorrows comforted, and birthdays informed.

Little things in life seem more important

When the Christian caring is heaven sent.

 
 
 

 

To Bach and Bark

Would Bach use wooden words just to construct

Instruments for this double concerto?

Would not such sentences merely disrupt

Notes flowing through violin strings and bow?

Fine counterpoint may be destroyed by them,

Interjecting shallow imperfections:

Flaw his precious melodic sonic gem,

In spite of the best poetic intentions.

Do these images need extra texture?

Will words improve the composition?

Are trees leaved with verbal diarrhoea?

Does rhyme and rhythm improve the vision?

As sounds vibrate in perfect harmony,

Unspoken words complete integrity.

 

  

 
 
 
God’s Haiku

“Burning Bush? That’s odd!

No! Go cover it with snow!

Dead-like Me”, said God

 

 

Richard

Every member of our congregation

Has to have their image portrayed by Richard.

It has now become an obligation,

For those who dare to stay on afterward.

His tripod will ensure that nothing’s blurred;

The flash gives everyone a harsh black rim.

In Richard’s snaps occurs that thousandth word,

Spoken out loud, but only heard by him.

His emotive motive is heaven sent;

Just trying to capture his essential;

So this image returns the complement,

For Richard’s temperament is beautiful.

His Album always remains undefiled:

None get in except as a little child.

Wing Mirror

Winging South/West to Capel Curig

The new view is backward through the mirror

Sometimes things seem far too small or much to big

To fit the frame of where we are – or were.

Most things are either blurred or blur elsewhere

Motion prevents clear image retention

Precise definition cannot occur

Once the local space and time have passed on

The dream continues moving right outside

The car on reaching this destination.

Maybe we see the invisible hide

Radiation beyond normal vision.

Today I ‘see through the glass darkly’

As empty space comes ‘face to face’ with me.

 
 
 

Having a quiet drink at the White Swan,

Well in t’garden at the back by Bill’s tree

When all of a sudden our quiet’s gone

As guns fire off across t’road quite loudly.

What’s it all for, this re-created war?

Why’s our packhorse bridge invaded so?

It’s what the hudreds of folks’ cameras saw,

Whilst capturing three hudred years ago.

Our Local History Society

Of Hebden Bridge arranged for this event

As the brave Pickets lost initially

But won as t’war was up the Buttress sent.

We never trust what our eyes have not seen

Sometimes our minds prefer what might have been

 

 

John Tolley

 

He joins us every year from Canada

For four whole months from Aoril to August.

Every week to comes to where we gather

In St James creating future from past.

It seems now a decade John’s been with us;

He used to return to Sowerby Bridge,

To Bolton Brow and to church at King Cross;

To forsake us no would seem sacrelidge.

Before each service and afterwards too,

He lights his pipe beside the artichoke;

Home’s not a place but much more what you do,

Where yearerdays can all go up in smoke.

Life is not about where you are but who:

It’s never where you’re from but who are you?

 

 Battle for The Bridge

Entries for The IAC Geoffrey Round International AV Competition

 

IAC Geoffrey Round International

The IAC Geoffrey Round International Audio Visual Competition
held  in Capel Curig, North Wales
on the 20th & 21st March 2010.
Closing date for entries was 22nd February 2010.
The venue is in the heart of the beautiful mountainous region
of the Snowdonia National Park
For full details, entry forms etc. please see
 Results
 
1st Place – The Quiet One by Keith Brown (UK)
 
 2nd Place  The Last Great Steam Show on Earth by Colin Balls (UK) 

3rd Place   Migrant Mother by Howard Bagshaw (UK)

…….

Best First Time Entrant – Lola, le petit Prince et Moi

by Christian & Danièle Brion (FRA)

…….

PAGB Honorable Mentions

(in no particular order)

Paris l’A?ente by Ricardo Zarate (FRA)

Little Domestic Quarrels by Jean Paul Petit (FRA)

A Chrismas Carol by Jill Bunting (UK)

Blackburn Diva by Sheila Davies (UK)

And Never Cackled by Richard Brown & Clive Atkins (UK)

5 bis rue de Vernevil by Christian Hendrickx & Andre Teyck (BEL)

…….

Judges Special Mentions

(in no particular order)

About Us by Henk Tulp (NL)

Mysts of Avalon by Eddie Spence (UK)

Land of the Thunder Dragon by Malcolm Imhoff (UK)

Eternity by Peter Coles (UK)

Finding Neverland byJohn Rowell (UK)

One Helluva Trip by Keith Scott (UK)