Best Convicting Poems

"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injected lines,
their soiled lives
ploughed and...

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October 17 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 8-9

Key Verse – Acts 8:10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to...

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....Whom strenghtens me.................................
My Father knows that this child's life has been strewn
Littered about with sorrows, sins and darkness ? Still these eyes
Behold his infant innocent;...

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props for our Pastor to honor him for his anointing
to give him encouragement in his Godly appointing
to be a bride to the church is a...

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My God, You are so good* to me…
Despite my sinfulness and selfishness
You gave Yourself to me with Your loving kindness
To save me from hell and...

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(One poet's vision of what being indwelled by Christ's heart might look like)        

What makes me feel loved...

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I roam whine ding down an endless road vexed . Near truth but far from its effects in this mess where men's minds relaxed wasted...

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Write a poem of love? 
 Aye, aye, aye.  
 (Sigh) 
 I'll try.... 
 It's like trying to recall a violent crime. 

...

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Everyone has the freedom of choice 
Everyone has an expressiveness to save their own voice
Who are you who am I to judge this choice 
You...

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This guy Jude is the real thing
giving himself to serve the king
sending his word of mercy and peace
with God's perfect love he does bring

But brings...

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I Need to Pray for Others!

Someone came to me,
 wanting some prayer.
He was filled with trouble and despair.

When I reached out to him to
 began...

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Many times when I would here a song, I would get an almost joyful longing, but I could never pinpoint the moment in my past...

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My brother came to me,
 desperate for prayer!
Filled with hopelessness and despair!

 I reached out to him to
 begin to pray…
But I couldn’t find any...

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My mind        

My mind is a prison
Overpopulated with remorse
Incarcerated by images of sin
My mind refuses rehabilitation
It cowers in...

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This quest arose for Jeanne d'Arc,
   A peasant girl engrossed in prayer.
   When voices deep inside her head,
   Spoke...

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