Best Church Service Poems

Maud, the meek poverty stricken seventy year old matriarch
 of the people spoke proudly as the relief shown on her face. 
“Two weeks ago I...

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Upon the freshly fallen snow
Outside a church a horse and buggy
Waits for the owner to arrive
They are going for a ride
To a farm that has...

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YOU ARE GOD and I HAVE TO BELIEVE


My dear Father God above the heavens high
ever loving and ever faithful in loving me
even though, I am...

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My Mother-In-Law has passed 
    so she is no longer here.
Mixed feelings I have 
    but a little less...

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Good earth styles
Fine ample grass;
A fine raiment


Sun and rain speak
Splurge fond refrain;
Rainbows echo


Dawn flings 
Shadows drowned;
Awake to birdsong


Man-made park
Forest architecture;
In the city


Journey here
Begin within;
Greet the...

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It’s an old-fashioned
Bell - a silver-tingling, it’s a-ringing
The choir’s singing
Their wrists a-swinging, up and down

It’s an old-fashioned
Carriage ride, abiding on the crunchy snow
Fresh and new
Flakes...

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What Do People Go to Church For?

In our church’s efforts to be contemporary...
Many things are brought into the sanctuary.

Many seem eager to “bring in the...

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Made a batch of cornbread Saturday morning.

Mixed the cornbread with clams and nuts to make stuffing.

Surrounded and filled the turkey with onions and stuffing;

Having done...

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Jesus: 
I stand at the door of the New Year, longing to come in
to inner sanctum of your heart that I may live within

Me:
Do not...

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THE PASSION OF CHRIST
A Confrontational Poem by Atsu Adaletey

The Passion 
Of Christ 
Is a Mission
With Thirst

The Passion
Of Christ
Is a Vision
With a firm Decision

The passion of...

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Incredible! Where could little girl of her age be going under this cold weather at this hour barefootedly and bareheadedly?What could have sent a poor...

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I am a master of the Arts University of Only One.
If you having problems my words can solve them.
My voice can direct others, better yet...

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we think that we know what true worship is really all about
it's more than getting your praise on to jump up and shout
God gets excited...

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Sprawled on my soft leather sofa
One Sunday after church service
Reading Okara’s “Spirit of the Wind”
And my infant son is sleeping nearby:
He would never leave me...

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WAKE UP CALL

Our Navy boom box -
“Reveille Reveille ladies! It’s time to wake up!”
Never laid under covers,
took too long to make the bed.

Talk about a...

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