Best Altar Poems

ABANDONED AT THE ALTAR


You cast me aside
Like an unloved old rag doll
You no longer wanted me.
Jilted as your bride
Your betrayal took its toll
Where is my apology?

No explanation
Has been uttered by your lips - 
I was waiting at the church!
Humiliation
As my life is torn to strips...

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In the stillness of the night, it’s you and me.
I read and weep and pray and pant for Thee.
I humbly bow and fall upon your mercies
And recognize the graces you have shown me.

Sweet and deep the drink I find in you,
Restoring and replenishing my soul.
Cherished...

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I sat on the bench and the tears began to flow
Knowing that was only one place I needed to go
But for some strange reason my feet wouldn't walk
And at the same time my mouth couldn't talk
I desperately wanted to get to that place
But I was...

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I see your face,
a keen imprint in the fog of my longing.
The world dissolved into dissonance,
hard edges sharpened by the heat of you.

I reach for you,
not with hands,
but with the kind of inferno
that licks at the walls of the soul.

Love me—just enough
to stop the senselessness—
to...

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When war jets go screaming by,
bombed-out homes morph into tombs.
And as fire ignites the sky,
scared souls cringe in basement rooms.

As loved ones pray for lost souls,
broken hearts shatter like glass.
And anger's smoldering coals
are fanned by the cost of gas.

Retracing steps prophets trod;
only leads to their...

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Altar call

In the name, blood, wounds and death of Jesus on the cross,
And by his resurrection on the third day,
Jesus, the first born from death,
The only warrior with power that conquered death,
Altar call of all children to the light,
The children of the whole world,
Don’t be...

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Sermon of the bee,
Pollinating daily praise: 
Preaching on a rose....

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"Left At The Altar"


Groom heat
Cold feet

Kill fear
Drank beer

Drunk fell
Deep well


3/9/2016...

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The Altar
(From The Old New Home FWB Church)
Written: By Tom Wright
5/14/2006

It was at this dated altar that first I knelt
Being a mere babe in Christ at the time
I’ve attempted to recapture the feelings I felt
When much younger and yet in my prime

To some it is...

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A. W. Nutter

The lump grew larger in my throat
As I stared down the darkened path
The safety of home seemed remote
Was I going to feel the elders wrath

Two steps away from hell on earth
Tempted to flee into the unknown
Echoing screams haunted my birth
Emitting from the altar...

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Don't alter from the altar
But if she does, try to halt her...

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"Drip, drip" said the mildew-stained stone cellar walls of St. Peter's cathedral,
Where a goblet of wine dripped into a priest dressed in robes violet and medieval.

Down into the crypts beneath the church's alter he had brought a boy,
To serve him blood of christ and play...

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To Jules Verne


A man feeling drowse at the top of the mountain, fell asleep.

He dreamed dreams
  emanating from floods of seas.
 In remote droughts,
 he gave his fruit of smoke
on a simple altar.

Curd quartz opened
 solidifying thousands of stamens,
they glowed
like the warm reflection of...

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with folded hands
before the altar---
opening up...

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