Best Backslider Poems
Below are the all-time best Backslider poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of backslider poems written by PoetrySoup members
BacksliderSin took away your Holy Spirit
Sin took away my Will
Sin took away my Praying
Sin took away my Fasting
Sin took away my Tithing
But Sin could not...
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Categories:
backslider, africa, allah, arabic, bible,
Form:
Free verse
The BacksliderThe backslider stepped into the chapel like an angel,
Outwardly, he is full of piety,
Inwardly, he is only a pity.
True bliss left him, even purity and...
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Categories:
backslider, abuse, addiction, adventure, anger,
Form:
Light Verse
Backslider6 foot 7 makes self sufficient
Drums pavement clink clanking walking barefoot
On Puddles of thought dried to subsistence
Carelessly focusing on how not to look
Indecisive ones...
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Categories:
backslider, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Backslider
The Backslider
By: Tom Wright
2/17/99
Do you follow a path
encumbered with weeds?
have they seemingly appeared
from your planted seeds?
Are the tracks you once followed
now faint and dim?
Becoming tracks...
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Categories:
backslider, god, sin,
Form:
Lyric
Squeaky the (Poor) Church MouseSqueaky and his buddies resided somewhere deep within the church's organ.
That elusive rodent was the bane of the pastor, The Reverend Doctor Morgan!
The reverend almost...
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Categories:
backslider, funnyprayer,
Form:
Rhyme
The Greatest Thing This Side of HeavenTHE GREATEST THING THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN
The greatest thing this side of heaven is not all the flowers that grow,
Though they be so fragrant and...
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Categories:
backslider, gospel, heaven, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
A Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a Sin Is a SinYou have to confess, I know you won't believe this;
Most preachers/teachers preach and say;
It was Eve whom cast and cause the "original SIN ";
But...
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Categories:
backslider, dark, depression, encouraging, forgiveness,
Form:
Ballad
My God, Thank You For Satisfying MeJune 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 14
Key Verse – Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a...
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Categories:
backslider, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Opinionated- and Its Eyes--Opinionated- And It’s Eyes---
I awoke and flung my mind soul in the heaven
What could there be more purely seven?
'It's that lordship,' I muttered;
And am I...
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Categories:
backslider, analogy, anxiety, assonance, emotions,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Categories:
backslider, celebration, character, christian, god,
Form:
Lyric
Very MuchOften I stand and I think about time;
Sometimes I sit here and I wonder why;
Why, is there so much hatred and lying;
Why, are there so...
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Categories:
backslider, appreciation, celebration, dedication, faith,
Form:
Blank verse
The FireThe dread been telling you
And you hypnotized by high fashion society
And you backslider calling yourself celebrity
The dread been telling you
Dread things to come coming now
A...
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Categories:
backslider, allegoryfire, fire,
Form:
Verse
Who I AmYou wont find me with my bible sitting in the first row
You’ll sometimes find me lifting my hands just to put on a show
I...
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Categories:
backslider, confusion, happiness, life, life,
Form:
I do not know?
I Am Birth I'Ve Been Born Again-I was a Backslider hell ridden
Now I am born again been forgiven
O saved that I am, no longer a slave to my sins
Free that I...
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Categories:
backslider, analogy, appreciation, endurance, forgiveness,
Form:
Lyric
Lord God, You Are My Walk Director and GuideAugust 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Hosea 11-14
Key Verse – Hosea 11:10 They shall walk after the LORD…
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY...
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Categories:
backslider, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Rhyme