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Best Crucifixion Poems

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Premium Member Crucifixion
Our sins, sweet Jesus,

Forged nails to crucify you
 
Became


Yet 


Your divine blood, 

Away washed, all humanity’s

Shame!





© Demetrios Trifiatis
      11 MARCH...

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Categories: crucifixion, forgiveness, jesus, love,
Form: Epigram



Premium Member The Crucifixion of Sarah Palin
Upon Sarah Palin,
The media is wailing,
While economy is failing,
A woman will do,
For fault to pursue,

But as governor in her state,
Things are looking great,
Alas,,,,,ka,,,,,ha,
We make our...

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Categories: crucifixion, inspirational, love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crucifixion, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Gold Fever
Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have...

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Categories: crucifixion, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
Seven Kingdoms
			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and...

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Categories: crucifixion, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Of Silent Screaming Pregnancies
OF SILENT SCREAMING PREGNANCIES…

Creative silence 
Unlike the silence
Of death
Is life giving:-

In creative silence
The heart beats;
Blood flows;
Breathing abounds.

In the silence of mind
Sage words scream out
Divine wisdom...

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Categories: crucifixion, allegory, analogy, birth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Reborn On Calvary
In the darkness of day,
we, the tear baptismal ones 
were reborn

In the shadow of Calvary,
we, the gospel seed
was crucifixion conceived — 
A bereaved delivery

On that...

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Categories: crucifixion, birth, religious, symbolism, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member At Gethsemene
Today is Good Friday. Jesus, the Nazarene, who robbed no one, cheated no one, who loved all, healed the sick and performed only acts of...

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Categories: crucifixion, angst, betrayal, cry, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen
“The Remaining”

PROLOGUE:  “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”


"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just...

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Categories: crucifixion, angel, daughter, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Way of the Cross
Our Jesus is condemned to die
        Oh, Savior, now from Earth- you part.
You do not sigh, nor do...

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Categories: crucifixion, christian, death, easter, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Scorpion
Collaboration: James Swartz, LadyLabyrinth





"Scorpion"




Lack of water leads to lack of life
exposed beneath the Sun like blood
from the tip of a Scorpion’s tail

Corporal attitudes aligned in...

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Categories: crucifixion, desire, imagery, life, lust,
Form: Free verse
50 Fallen Stars
50 Fallen Stars
There's a plague of insanity among us
Is it blind ignorance or just the blatantly ignorant?
A whole new land of despair and those with...

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Categories: crucifixion, allusion, america, anger, art,
Form: Verse
Prince of This World
Prince of this world,
you've meddled in the affairs of mankind
since the beginning
From the time of the Egyptian pharaohs,
whose gigantic pyramidal tombs
had been built primarily by...

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Categories: crucifixion, spiritual, truth, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Ransom Paid
My Lord, what more need I ask of you?
For you have left your throne of light
Came to this place of shadows
Wherein lies treachary
And sin rules...

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Categories: crucifixion, life, love
Form: Nonet
Premium Member "evil Twin"
"Spiritual Narrative"

After life began,  appeared “Evil Twin” mind’s obvious sin
‘Evil’  naught of nothing, using the power of love’s “something”
Giving rise to evil self,...

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Categories: crucifixion, allegory, inspirational, lovegod, tree,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs