It's Christmas day - Roland L. Gayle

I just woke up and it’s Christmas Day

Christ is born, Hip, Hip Hooray!

The bliss of Heaven - Anonymous

The bliss of Heaven,

I will worship you a thousandfold,

Revered fruit of a mature tree,

Long awaited by your people,

Protection of spiritual strength,

Heed my call.

Giddy-up, bull - Anonymous

Giddy-up, bull, little bull,

Little bull from the little pen.

You come down from the stars - Alfonso Maria de' Liguori

You come down from the stars

Oh, King of Heavens,

And You come in a cave in the cold, in the frost.

Oh, my Divine Baby

I see you trembling here,

Oh, Blessed God

Ah, how much it costs You, your loving me.

Longing (Garod) - Hagop Norashkharian

The years have passed and still pass…

Yet you seem to me only

Illusive and a far dream,

Like invincible mountain.

More than Anyone Else - Vagif Bayatly Oner

I can neither be the strongest man in the world,

Nor do I want to be.

I don't want anyone to be afraid of me.

Day by day, God’s gracious love surrounds me - Lina Sandell

Day by day, God’s gracious love surrounds me

As a balm to soothe my troubled heart.

Countless cares and worries that confound me

Fade away or quietly depart,

For His heart is kind beyond all measure,

And He comforts us as He knows best.

Know'st Thou The Way - Theodor Kjerulf

O littel bird! know'st thou the way

Which is unknown to me?

How swift thou flewest at break of day,

With heart all full of glee!

Flying Kites - Cicely Fox Smith

"It was them there flyin' kites of 'ers done it," said he,

"Runnin' down the Tropics a sight she was to see,

A pictur' to see with 'er sails both large and small,

An' 'er pretty skysails atop of 'em all."

No Pain Like Our Pain - Rabbi Tamara Cohen

Dear God, help us look,

look closer so that we may see

our children in their children,

their children in our own. 

If I must die - Refaat Alareer

If I must die,

you must live

to tell my story

Who is Innocent? - Yahia Lababidi

If one were hard of heart

they might ask

is any Israeli innocent

Sleeping Porter (Nidrit Bhariya) - Laxmi Prasad Devkota

On his back a fifty-pound load,

his spine bent double,

six miles sheer in the winter snows;

naked bones;

with two rupees of life in his body

to challenge the mountain.

from: My Silent Confidant - Søren Kierkegaard

Where am I? 

What does it mean to say: the world?

What is the meaning of that word? 

Who tricked me into this whole thing and leaves me standing here?

The Colour of Life - Ssu-K’ung T’u

Would that we might for ever stay

The rainbow glories of the world,

The blue of the unfathomed sea,

The rare azalea late unfurled,

Poem of Your Oblivion - Aída Cartagena Portalatín

The soul in a mansion of snow,

The Beira Malaria - Thomas Craig

When you rise to greet old Phœbus with a booming in your head,

    And your temples throb and threaten straight to burst;

When your tongue feels like a doormat and your eyelids feel like lead,

    And your throat is dry and parched with burning thirst;

        When your eyeballs shun the light;

        And the sunshine seems a blight,

You may moan your luck, and wish you'd ne'er been weaned,

The Liberal says - Morris Winchevsky

The Liberal says, Jack must help him 

Because he is his friend. 

The Conservative says: My heart 

Opens to Jack today.