Best Christlike Poems
Crosses
Christlike creatures carry crosses bravely borne
from fetters forged by blessed consecrations.
Wicked winds tear at flesh that’s whipped and worn
as vanquished persons hold on to their convictions.
A twisted world is turning towards the darkness
embracing envy, enmity and shame.
The holy sword is noted for its sharpness
as it cuts the callous with a fiery flame.
Christlike creatures carry crosses bravely borne
in days when demons dare to raise a hype of hell.
Yet, an angel protects them from the scorn
as they glance down on some sorry son that fell.
God will be victor in the wake of time.
There is a cross brand new for some to own,
a quick deliverance from hands that are unkind
to arms of welcome and a world called home.
3/30/18
On the train that I rode today,
into town I was on my way.
You never know what you will see,
out the window were clouds of gray.
An old man came on with one knee,
he hobbled over ~ sat by me.
By God's loving wonderful grace,
I softly said a pray to thee.
An old lady with a sad face,
filled with hurt and pain sat in place.
All her pearly white teeth were gone,
leaving just a wide open space.
She could have been up near the dawn,
she really slept on the lawn.
I wondered what her life was like,
so tired she gave a big ~ big yawn.
Next a kid with a minibike,
the kid looked like a hunger strike.
God's loving grace has been on me,
so that my life could be christlike.
Date Written:5/11/2022
2 place
Rubaiyat Contest Contest Judged: 6/13/2022
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet
~~Note~~A true story from a train ride on 5/1/2022.
Any of these could have been me.
By God's loving wonderful grace,
I was able to watch and then pray.
Life as we know it makes no sense if we have no choice
So what is the alternative and do we have a voice ?
The world is spinning out of control with violence and death all around
And the Republican presidential candidate is a racist media hogging clown
Everything is off kilter and while I sit and contemplate
What is my alternative and what will be my fate?
How do I sing songs of joy when chaos is on the rise?
How do I survive a Babylonian society and keep my eyes on God's prize?
In the midst of perversity and immoral behavior
My only alternative is to stay connected to Jesus my Savior
When I see a white man kill nine African Americans in a church
And after arrested given a bullet proof vest
Yet when an ex-military black man kills five white cops
He's blown up I feel such unrest
Over the injustice and the inequality that is occurring every day
Over 123 black men killed this year what more is there to say
What is the alternative? What is it that we need to do?
What is the alternative? As a nation we need to seek truth
I don't condone Mr. Johnson's behavior
but I understand where he's coming from
Too many young unarmed black brothers
Killed by white police guns
So what is the alternative?
What as a nation do we realize?
That racism is alive and well and killing blacks is on the rise
What is the alternative?
How do we bring about true change?
It's time for white Americans to stop acting like we're deranged
We are Americans too my people have been here over 400 years
Yes we were once slaves but let me make this clear
We are no longer your property
We are no longer your chattel
Stop killing and slaughtering my people
Like they're mindless cattle
So what is the alternative?
It's time we all develop a true relationship with God
And hopefully be infused with a Christlike love
And true compassion in out hearts
THAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE
So many human beings say this and say that,but never keep it real.
Why is there so much defacation coming out of your mouth, when you profess to
be Christlike? Oh my mistake! You are just revealing what's coming out of your mouth, that actually lives in ther hidden depths of your decaying heart. What a travesty.
Never mine,cause I truly understand why you are incapable of keeping it real. Nevertheless, I will pray that one day The Lord will deliever you from your fraudulent existence.
Religion taught us to follow, taught us to act without questions
Taught us to hide our sorrows and pretend, giving the world false impressions
Day by day pleasing man and forgetting the one who was nailed for our transgressions
Creating a series of perfect assumptions and secretly denying the effects of sin's implications
Slowly distorting communication with him and following the world's jurisdictions
forgetting so soon the reason behind worldy demacation and heavenly adoration
Religion... a sad altercation from an initial christlike emulation..
Religion...an apparent deviation from the mind of Gods restoration
Losing my religion is a perfect indication of a new Godly invitation
I Agree to losing my religion as a form of heaven's reclamation.......
Suffering is to be found in every phase of life
Will be evident in the life of anyone who follows Father Christ
It is not a punishment or penalty
But an ordinary part of earthly existence
Patient suffering can be a shock absorber
That helps us over the potholes
Rough places of life without becoming all shaken up
When we accept suffering without constantly complaining
We weaken their negative impact
Wheather physical,
Mental
Emotional huts
The better we endure the cross
The more Father Christlike we become
Accepting sufferings means
Not running towards it but through it
Father Christ speaks of a mother
Forgetting her labor pains once child is born
Some saintly people have welcomed suffering
As a way of imitating Father Christ
Proving their love for Him
Savior has said we will save our souls
Through patient endurance.
Thanks Father Christ for Your suffering to save us
May 11, 2014
Christ commands
comforts
My meekness magnified
Glorification glitters
gracefully
chipepo lwele
In this political correctness mad world
believers of Christ need to stand to be true
for their Lord and all, He was and is
promote His gospel prayerfully we must do
Keep a watch on our own godliness
showing our life to be holy and Christlike
that we're living in Christ a true reality
uphold God's standard going forward to strike
All profaneness and opposition to God
must be opposed with strong spiritual might
Christian values once held in high esteem
now rejected by followers of the night
Believers need a loud wake-up call
too many don't want to rock the boat
need to realise that we're on Titanic
it's sinking, need to keep it afloat
Christ-likeness speaking out
in the holy spirit's divine power
holding forth God's holy truth
in Christ's name for this hour
We're in the midst of trump times and
We need to understand
That that individual in the White House
Is not a righteous man
He's all about division, discord
And disarray
And when a domestic terror act occurred
He did not have much to say
White nationalists staged a rally to keep
A confederate statue in place
No regard and no respect for any other
Ethnicity nor any other race
A group of anti- protesters were in a
Peaceful march as well
Until a nationalist in a car mowed them down
Causing utter hell
We're in trump times the country's
Moral barometer has done a reverse
We're in trump times trust and believe
It can only get worse
Threats against the North Koreans
Who are launching potential weapons to kill
Instead of using diplomacy
Trump wants to assert his will
On the precipice of what could
Possibly become world war 3
What should we do?
What are our spiritual strategies?
One, we would do well to accept
The invitation from Christ our Savior
To worship, witness and walk
With a Christlike behavior
We need God to remind us
That we are not alone
And never ever forget that its He
Who sits on the throne
God is in charge He's still in control
Hopefully He'll work on presidents
Trump and Kim Jong Un souls
Two, we need gather together in
Remembrance of He
Jesus the Christ who died
To give us the victory
To eat of the bread and drink of the wine
Remnants of His body and blood
To examine our own hearts
And acknowledge His unconditional love
To stay in touch with reality
To remember our past and our pain
Of the slavery that is still on American
A badge of shame
Let us never forget
what has come to pass
Let us never forget Jesus
and the love for us He has
For when we remember we reestablish
All truths and how they came to be
And no tweet will erase nor change
The true reality
Trump talks about fake news
But free press will prevail
As only free press stops a nation from
Becoming a dictatorship from hell
Spiritual strategies for trump times
We need to realize
We need to stay united
And keep our eyes on the prize
Let us never forget the blood
That was shredded and the sacrifice
Let us never forget that for our sins
Jesus gave His life
Let us look past skin color
And ignore race
Let us remember God
Who gave us His infinite
Mercy and Grace
No amount of thought
Could negate
Suffering in the mind
Of Francis Phoenix.
That much he had always believed,
That humanity is a sad, lost
And suffering race.
Sometimes he felt it so strongly
That the worship of a Saviour seemed
To be the only sane act on earth,
And then it passed.
It was not increasing callousness,
But an increase in the number of moments
He felt quite intoxicated with compassion
That had soured Frank's outlook.
During those moments, he wept
For all those he'd ever been cruel to.
He could be so hard on people,
So terribly hard.
To whom could he ask forgiveness?
It was his sensitivity
That bred those moments of Christlike love,
When he cared so little for himself,
For his body, even for his soul
When it was the soul of his father,
The soul of his mother,
The souls of his friends and relatives
And everyone he'd ever known
That he cared about.
That was truth, that was reality,
That was the purpose of all human life,
That love, that benevolence,
That absolute forgiveness.
Otherworldly love is painful,
But it is the only true freedom known to Man.
Too much thought eventually produces the conviction
That nothing is worth doing.
Thought is a destructive disease of the soul.
(Both "The Destructive Disease of the Soul" and "The Compensatory Man Par Excellence" possess as their starting points a novel written at an estimate around 1987. I believe most of it was destroyed some six years thereafter.)
At first I wasn't sure what I was listening to, if anything at all
but as I moved a little closer, sure enough she was singing
The Christmas branches hummed and the tinsel drummed
and the figurines beneath the tree gave sighs of sweet relief
At first I wasn't keen on a bauble that could sing a Xmas song
I had failed to read the fine print ,yes the box had clearly stated
"no batteries required" so I figured she was just a bauble
like the other ones I tucked away each year, oh but she was not
Every time the spruce was lit she'd light up like a Christmas tree
and with her acapella voice she'd sing me my favorite song;
"Oh Silent Night" was pure delight to hear with Christlike cheer
each time my bauble-een sang up, it was a living Holy dream
At first I wasn't sure I wanted a bauble that was so socialistic
but as she sang my worries disappeared as I turned idealistic
she brought me such joy and taught me how to be altruistic
in a world so mundane she was an exceptional bauble- Mystic
So it was no surprise that at the end of the season I kept her
safe in my trinket box, where the rest of the year waited
for the uplift of Christmas again. He is my Lord and my Savior
he made the music and bauble, made me creative and free
Today I am glad I own such a bauble, I listen without squabble
and thank God for creating her and I thank God that she's able.
November 6, 2018
I once was a sinner;
But now I'm saved by Your grace
And my desire is to please You-
For in You lies my total strength.
Lord, let me be Your Instrument.
I know I have fallen short of Your glory
Through thoughts, words.and deeds
But cleanse me daily, deep within
From every unrighteous act of sin
And with Your Spirit
Lead me Lord-
Let me be Your Instrument.
When troubles come and I'm about to fall
Help me to listen and hear Your call
To higher heights and deeper depths
With purer thoughts to spiritual wealth
To a mark of a higher calling in You.
Use me Lord, to do Your will
Let Your Love be the permanent seal'
To bind me forever to the cause
To stand for the Truth
No matter the cost
That my life might be an example
Of a Christlike life, filled with Your strength
Lord, Let me be Your Instrument.
When others fail, and from You, turn their face
Because of disbelief of Your grace
Their eyes being blinded in discontent
Give to me that "more -than-conquerors strength
Take my hand; let me stand
Boldly in Your Word and not to flinch.
Father-
I hope you know that I see you.
Without permission, my mind's
been sketching you all day.
At once I see you hover,
a whisper away,
a roughed-up scramble of
cartoonist's strokes I couldn't
begin to fill in.
Your unsteady hand is mine.
You assemble your limbs in Jesus Christlike form
and emit your premonition of loneliness,
your prayer.
Father?
Who
are you?
Am I your misplaced mirror, are you
a mirror for my prayers?
Father, your mirror is jagged enough
to invite these weary veins to bleed.
Prayer, your portrait is far too bleak
to adorn the walls of my mind.
For those of us who wait
In steadfast faith sedate
For second coming of Christ
That we too see the light
Shifting towards ethereal
Beholding Gods miracle
This time
The chime
Will be felt
As bliss svelte
Ignition within
Grazing our skin
That we too be
Christlike, as He
21-May-2021
Within sleepy sheep folds
of retributive divine justice
postponed til kingdom comes
and diva queens go
to hell where we sinfully belong
like all unfaithful *******
refusing to shuck and jive
custody of 20/20 eyes
and to disconnect bicameral ears,
Discovering within these quiet unexamined folds
remains an uncreative fundamental tension
between evangelical healing justice
and bad faith zealotry,
Between good news of God's universal EarthLove
and dark colonizing missionary zeal
to overpower alien health and happiness,
compassion and gratitude for global regenerate nature
spiritual nondualism.
Zealotry of StraightWhiteMale scriptural reconstructions
in Western roots fed by colonization memories
of overpowering violence.
Evangelical multicultural good news
roots are living watered
by creolizing necessities,
communal simplicity,
non-elite sufficiency
found in multiculturing non-violent domestic herstories,
communication circles ecofeminist
compassioned philosophies
of ecologically green resonant theology,
restorative win/win EarthJustice,
permacultural health-system therapies.
Zealotry is born of punishing bad faith
in colonizing memories.
Evangelism is born of healing good faith
in polycultural creolizing visions.
Zealotry is extrinsically LeftBrain dominant
and anti-Christlike.
Evangelism is intrinsically RightBrain prominent
and EarthCreation healing.
Which version of Christianity
do you find supported
by Republican StraightWhiteMale TrumpCards?
How might this compare unfavorably
to GreenDemocrat ecofeminist compassion therapy
if you are more of a Gospel Health-Crusading Evangelical?