Love of God Am I

I’m love, expressing the Creator’s heart
For God is love, and love is the greatest 
Magnifying miracle-mercy moves 
Toward prayer’s length; upward service strength 
Defying Venus and Aphrodite’s might. 

Wondrous sight is it to cite my marvels
With my grace-light and care, I light and care
Helping well thru my compassionate mercy
My patience is like eternal hope…
Yet in my reign forever; death, I’ll smite.

Verily, I’m God’s most supreme kindness
Causing Christ to carry cross of Calv’ry 
Leaving His throne of glory in Heaven 
To reach down to Adam’s world that’s condemned
Granting salvation… life everlasting.

My precious loss is hatred’s advantage
Yet its grand schemer can never prevail  
For he’s a conquered foe back in Eden. 
Do you share God’s love? Is charity* yours? 
Be not faithless; trust the Lord to have me.

*1Peter 5:14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus.

September 11, 2018

Poetic Devices employed in this poem are:
Lines 1.Personification; 2.Metaphor; 3.Alliteration; 
4.Internal rhyme; 5.Truism with Hyperbole; 
6.Homophones; 7.Homographs; 8.Tautology; 
9.Simile; 10.Hyperbaton; 11.Superlative; 
12.Consonance; 13.Paradox; 14.Synecdoche; 
15.Euphony;16.Oxymoron; 17.Metonymy; 
18.Allusion; 19. Rhetorical questions; 20. Litotes.

2nd place, "A LITANY OF POETIC DEVICES" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier; judged on 9/13/2018.

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