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Amittai Poems - Poems about Amittai


Premium Member Son of Amittai - 1 of 2
...commissioning and attempted escape “Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go And tell them of their great impending woe; Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.” But Jonah ran;......

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Categories: amittai, bible, fish,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Son of Amittai - 2 of 2
...(continued from 'Son of Amattai - 1 of 2') in the belly of the fish Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God, Deep from the belly of leviathan. “I cried out to you, Lord, in my......

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Categories: amittai, bible, fish,
Form: Tail-rhyme



Threefold Darkness
...Threefold darkness ! A mystery by which creation Received light that frees mankind From stronghold of darkness It started with the son of Amittai Who needed three dark nights in a fish Deep i......

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Categories: amittai, christian, easter, heaven, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Hope Hangs On a Cross
... Beads of scarlet salvation did flow down from Calvary that dark day Pilate light justice was on total eclipse display At the Golgotha place A skull view twas the Crucifix......

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Categories: amittai, faith, religious, truth, uplifting,
Form: Epic
Spooks Who Boo Spoke
... I’m the latest ghostly tale of a Dead Sea non-person A son of a slave seed; I Diaspora bled from wooden callousness, inside a cadaver pale white whale — born half-dead on arrival Bo......

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Categories: amittai, allegory, identity, truth, visionary,
Form: Narrative



Jonah Son of Amittai
...Jonah Son of Amittai Jonah should go to Nineveh one day, But to Tarshish is where he ran away, And off to Joppa he raced and went, Without ever having God's consent. Paid required amount and......

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Categories: amittai, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet

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