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Best Chosen People Poems

Below are the all-time best Chosen People poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chosen people poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Boats of Shame
Bring your guns
Bring your boats
Boats filled with ghosts
Boats weighted with chains
Chains that will one day break
Chains that will carry
Carry us to Zion
Carry our pain
Pain born...

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Categories: chosen people, abuse, baptism, courage, slavery,
Form: Blitz



Crazy Folk
It's never explained
why she and her son were spared
in the raid on their homestead
It drove her insane
and her boy became a mute
She sent him off...

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Categories: chosen people, adventure, crazy, native american,
Form: Choka
I Am Sure Because Jesus Said So
Someone asked me this question:
How sure are you that you'll go to heaven?
I said I believe in the Word of the Son,
Eternal life to all...

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Categories: chosen people, heaven, jesus, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Better One Died
??Malachi? ?4:5?-?6? ?NIV??
[5] “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. [6] He will...

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Categories: chosen people, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Gift of Tolerance
Please hear us I pray....

Tolerance, this word is not used in the bible
The closest I can find is to be non judgemental
To accept those that...

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Categories: chosen people, prayer,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Sin and God Within
Heaven forbid, He who many claim to be
the son of God made no such claim, God forbid.
He was taught and learned the ways of sin...

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Categories: chosen people, allusion, faith, forgiveness, sin,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Seeker
THE SEEKER

A weaving’s blending is spun within the soil of the discontent,
Legends are the roots of cultures, stories woven within the 
Fabrics of societies, but...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chosen people, betrayal, conflict, dedication, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jerusalem, the Jugular - Part One
You can't imagine what its like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' promise to Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor, wasting...

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Categories: chosen people, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Evil Has Many Faces
Why do you come now?
Why do you besiege me 
with your fowl unholy presents?
You are the Prince of Darkness,
the keeper of tormented souls,
you are Satan...

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Categories: chosen people, bible, evil, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Haiku: Physics: Colored Perceptions
blue planet water
blue sky just scattered sunbeams
dusk's red, unbent light


Brian Johnston
July 28,2014

Poet's Notes: 
Isn't it great? Three wonders of nature explained in 17 words. It...

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Categories: chosen people, nature, planet, perspective,
Form: Haiku
More Than South Africa Poem Contest: Miracles
You ask, Do I believe in miracles? Have I seen healing outside the Bible?
Is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit accessible –
To me and you,...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chosen people, abuse, discrimination, education, evil,
Form: Free verse
Days of Feasting and Gladness
MAKE THEM DAYS OF FEASTING AND GLADNESS - Book of Esther 9:22

Today we celebrate,
History comes alive.
Purim arrives this month,
All people shall thrive.

Feasting and gladness,
The order...

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Categories: chosen people, bible, celebration, faith, holiday,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Old Maid Games
I recall a card game
probably extending back past the 1950s
called Old Maid.

There was also Authors
and a few other choices
less popular with me.
But Old Maid sticks...

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Categories: chosen people, earth, gender, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Tribal Gypsies
His voice is as a still whisper, a hushed sigh 
Rippling through the evergreen mountain pines,
A spiritual being calls in native tongue, come unto
Me, my...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chosen people, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
A Black Thought
One day I just want to mean something

If I could be something I will dream nothing

Pharaohs wore gold so I suppose I’ll keep stunting

I’m trying...

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Categories: chosen people, black african american, change,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things