Best Awed Poems

I stand in awe and contemplate nature's beauty
Deep within I feel a very real sense of duty
Awe that I can marvel at a butterfly's flight
Then from my heart be able of butterflies write

I contemplate how plants can sustain survival
Especially when it is such a dry...

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range of beauty rests 
                                        up...

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Awed by the amazing Lord and God* Almighty

Blessed am I with His beautiful gift of eternal life-bounty

Committed to Him of grateful faith-love's certainty

Delighted in His service He deserves midst my duty

Earnest as He upholds me around His endearment's entirety

Fulfilled by His faithfulness smiting faithlessness' futility

Granted...

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I
When trouble comes
Guilt is behind
With Regret Ready and able
(No time for pun on Cain or Abel)
But don't give up on God
Or even the vilest offender
As the hymnist sang, if s/he truly believes
Pardon from God one truly receives
If you must ---
Give up on the accusers, not...

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reverential awe
prudent faith-filled perspective 
fathoming God’s mind*

1Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

January 29, 2020
Honorable Mention, "Senryu on Mind" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Jenish Somadas; judged on 2/3/2020....

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I
Awed by God
Awe is good
For Holy God
Don't be scared
You'll be heard

II
Awed by God
My prayers flawed
Devotions without verses
Or His Words
Biblical living waters
Go before God
Fearlessly; reverentially awed

III
GREATEST IDEA YET
IF HUMANLY CREATED
A HEAVENLY FATHER
JESUS'S EARTHLY MOTHER
HE USED "ABBA"
INTIMACY INDICATED THEREBY
if only humans
Will go, quietly
To talk intimately
With the Universe
Though...

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At the steering wheel,
I am inanely awed
by how my car greedily gulps down
into its hood that interminable stretch
of gray highway snaking out as a huge,
obsidian conveyor belt
from the edge of the earth
where the rim of the opalescent sky
at daybreak 

begins.


In the same oafish wonder,
I see...

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"The world is charged with the grandeur of God."

                         Quote by _ Gerald Manley Hopkins
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God awed me last night
My spirit took flight at the sight
A shooting star prepared for me
Flew out across the sea

The sea of the sky, it did fly
Seemed so close; so close to my eye
I felt that I could reach out
And touch; its white light in...

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"Be happy in a moment and live in a breath . . "

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A solitary man meets God
Beneath the moon on frozen sod.
Rock walls caress that quiet place.
Amid the snow and open space –
There, God can speak to heart of man.
Share great truths and give commands.
Each man who waits for Christ’s return,
Within his soul shall soon discern.
There is...

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She had a quirky jazziness that could not be denied.
We wanted to be with her, to watch her, maybe to be her.
None of us would admit it, but our wide eyes and open mouths did....

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sunlight was made for your eyes
glints of golds
hints of greens
touch of brown and violet
i fall into them, wanting more
the sun draws out your magic
i feel humbled and awed to know you
and delighted that you are mine to raise...

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Sometimes, a first draft of a poem leaves me awed.
It is as if it came as gift from God.
But then when I start to revise
and look at it with more studious eyes,
I see all the places were it's irredeemably flawed,
and I lose all the joy...

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Let's visit our sacred space,
Pray for blessings of grace,
Pray for an encounter with the Lord,
If it all come true, we'd all be awed,
Personal encounters with grace,
Hidden, but not far away, in our sacred space....

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