Johnny Cake Country Celebrates 31 years! “Johnny Cake Country” by Verna Penn Moll celebrates thirty-one (31) years of publication with a book signing party for a second revised edition. The first edition of Johnny-Cake Country published in 1990, travelled to libraries, institutions and homes around the world, including the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Africa and Caribbean. […]
FUNINTUN’S CHRISTMAS
Funintun BookFunintun Book Funintun’s Christmas ‘FUNINTUN’S CHRISTMAS’ by Verna Penn Moll, is the book of the SEASON! Reviewers Say: Funintun’s Christmas embraces – our Virgin Islands traditional and cultural Chrismas customs the thoughts and actions which shaped the Virgin Islands character Funintun’s Christmas introduces – various historical themes; a sense of unity and belonging, of […]
Poetic Prayers: Where Cultures Meet
Poetic Prayers: Where Cultures Meet. Verna Ernestine Penn Moll. Road Town, Virgin Islands: Virgin Islands Millennium Committee, 1999. ‘Poetic Prayers: Where Cultures Meet,’ was inspired when the author Verna Ernestine Penn Moll attended a spiritual retreat (sponsored by the St. Michael Church, Colchester, England, at Ringsfield in…., UK), which explored the spirituality of early Christian […]
Catharsis, come now
Catharsis, Come now Catharsis, come now to rid This burden of storm: Dark skies with heavy clouds Break in torrents upon my head. Catharsis, come! Come be with me, to talk, Or let your presence Be balm, soothing the pain Of things only the spirit groans. Catharsis, come! Ye songs of ancient rhyme And […]
The Silence Of Gethsemane
The Silence Of Gethsemane ‘Twas the silence Of the garden That heard the agony Of conflict and struggle Waging battle With light and darkness. It was settled In the bitter cup Of suffering Ere the silence Heard the agony In dark Gethsemane. From the moment of acceptance The cross loomed ahead In gory ugliness, Wilful […]
Love is Forever
Love is Forever For St Valentine’s Day Love is forever! enduring as the sun; Love’s not emotion on run nor sours by the hour, Love’s a creative power. Love is forever! Though often somersaulting like erupting volcano; ‘Til flames touch the skies praying that love never dies. Love catches the ray of evening’s setting sun […]
Before the Cross of Calvary
For the Lenten Season Before the Cross of Calvary Before the cross of Calvary, Jesus went to Gethsemane For solitude, prayer, and rest; When His agony took the test Jesus prayed in Gethsemane; Three times He prayed, for you and me! From joyous supper with his friends He descended to dreaded ends […]
Amazing Spring
Amazing Spring Spring comes with its lengthening days Enticing the earth to receive And share rain with seedling’s sprout! We stand amazed as buds unfold And young of animals leap out. We fall in love with love again, Agree to every noble thing, Take in beauty earth unfurls And bathe ourselves with cleansing vows In […]
Scattered Yet Together, Sung By Kristin Frazer (6 verses)
Buy a PDF Score Singer : Kristin Frazer Scattered Yet Together is sung here by accomplished musician and Virgin Islander, Kristin Frazer who began her singing career at an early age. She has appeared on CD recordings with multiple Virgin Island gospel artists and has also displayed her vocal talents through live performances as a […]
Lead Us Father Gently
Buy the PDF Score Lead Us Father Gently : Lyrics Lead us, Father, gently lead us From all empty pride; Save us, Lord, from sole ambition, Let us follow Your direction. Lead us, Father, gently lead us From a mere foothill Of our predestined vocation, According to Your precious will. Lead us, Father, gently lead […]