Betty Spence, Poet Laureate for Hugh's News Afterglow:
If you've ever lost your song, you can imagine how the exiles felt. There are times when we who enjoy praising God by singing and playing instruments lose our voice and our touch. God still gives a song in the night.
"Song of the Weeping Willow"
Let Spirit-wind blow through the willow tree
and strum the harp that sorrow laid aside.
Restore, O Lord, the song, you gave to me.
Let Spirit-wind blow through the willow tree
and loose the joyous tongues of ecstasy
to sing God's praise no matter what betide.
Let Spirit-wind blow through the willow tree
and strum the harp that sorrow laid aside.
[Editor's Comment: Betty Spence earned a B. A. degree in 1978 from the University of South Alabama as a mature student. During post-graduate studies at USA she studied poetry with Dr. Sue B. Walker, Alabama Poet Laureate emeritus. Spence has had over 100 poems in secular and religious publications. Her poetry books include Reading Sentences, a chapbook of Pen Pal Poetry written with Bettye K. Wray, and Pinned-on Wings (Timberline Press (2004). ]
If you've ever lost your song, you can imagine how the exiles felt. There are times when we who enjoy praising God by singing and playing instruments lose our voice and our touch. God still gives a song in the night.
"Song of the Weeping Willow"
Let Spirit-wind blow through the willow tree
and strum the harp that sorrow laid aside.
Restore, O Lord, the song, you gave to me.
Let Spirit-wind blow through the willow tree
and loose the joyous tongues of ecstasy
to sing God's praise no matter what betide.
Let Spirit-wind blow through the willow tree
and strum the harp that sorrow laid aside.
[Editor's Comment: Betty Spence earned a B. A. degree in 1978 from the University of South Alabama as a mature student. During post-graduate studies at USA she studied poetry with Dr. Sue B. Walker, Alabama Poet Laureate emeritus. Spence has had over 100 poems in secular and religious publications. Her poetry books include Reading Sentences, a chapbook of Pen Pal Poetry written with Bettye K. Wray, and Pinned-on Wings (Timberline Press (2004). ]