Best Devotional Poems
Oh God, ,
Our Lord
Great King,
We sing.
Eyes raise
Give grace
You lead,
We plead.
Steer life,
From Strife.
Help reap,
Joys deep.
Give bread.
Love spread.
Calm us,
In fears.
Save us,
From tears.
Our need,
Do heed.
We bide.
Abide.
April.25. 2023
~ Placed Sixth~
Brian Strand Premiere. No.1211. Poetry Contest
Bringer of day,
Lord of Fire
Help cleanse my ways
O noble Sire!
Cathedral of limbs,
Prayers from a leaden pew:
The butterfly prays.
Farewell to this day's gifted light,
Welcome now to starshine bright!
The wheel turns on as Earth spins about;
We ask for Harmony within, without.
Training in a classical sense
means looking at life through an
infinite hallway lined with the
statuesque but long not remembered
at least for vision or presence
but more likely only legend whether
by grace or by downfall
A hallway endlessly in need of revolution
yet never conscious that the movement
burgeons from within and underneath
and often in the least moral of places or
attitudes
This tutelage regarded as a ticket to
opine using tradition blindly as a substitute
for enlightenment and with little hope of
rotation For the religious mind-space craves
its settled location and scorns interruption
of the foolishly transcendent
Therefore to bed with the schooling whose
origin of mass itself beckons questioning for
the philosopher though no original retort is
to be found from the body that answers less
than completely
I have loved Thee with two loves -
a selfish love and a love that is worthy of Thee.
As for the love which is selfish,
Therein I occupy myself with Thee,
to the exclusion of all others.
But in the love which is worthy of Thee,
Thou dost raise the veil that I may see Thee.
Yet is the praise not mine in this or that,
But the praise is to Thee in both that and this.
By Rabia al Basri (A classic Sufi poet)
This day is done and rest I must,
Let us lie the night together
Secure in Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.
Thy portrait filled the horizon
with tears falling in crimson.
Frailed, blurred and so wasted
the feelings like busted bones.
Surge of idle adoration
hallocinating the numb viens
spreading all over.
Drunk on changing years
i smiled with all fireworks,
then the voice of music
became the song illumated.
Strength poured to this corporeal
by unveiled charcoal eyes,
the jasmine scent, the lasting daffodils,
the soft lips, the fresh breathe,
i became her newest captive;
Too much for life to crawl
and live turning empty tides
to the stars.
The darken untruth a sudden
gives its death scroll.
Traces of smile turn into
flooded evil shrine,
outmost joy became war of time.
Decades sigh fast and as expected;
Flowers found wild and decayed,
Blossoms glew and expelled.
O' charcoal eyes,
thy smile afloats in naked streams
waiting for fresh bond
as if decades a lie;
only thee cure the dread.
The poet's voice now plays
and flute reigns its melody
in devotional fire.
Erased my sin’s face
Answered in my place
Saved me by Love's grace
Took on my sin’s waste
Enlightened of truth's taste
Rise up and made haste
Let me tour you in a dream of reigning thunder of my strengths.
Crawling in the remnants of our lively summer years.
Courses of roadside no more right or heartache left
For our tomorrow will be the history of lovers on earth.
For within my touch you could find your heavenly rest.
No pain or faints before my glorious care and caress.
Within you I find my faith of leading the subtle smile,
You'd always pictured on my joyful spirited corporeal.
In your aura of rocking lightning when I first see you,
Would be the gospel of living in my planet and flesh.
I'm glad of having you my dear, the princess of Persia
More radiant than the mistresses of the wise Solomon.
Within this melting sand I'll draw your unique image
In this desert dates I'll let your dreams be at rest
Within this dry humid airy wind I'll jump across your hug
The thing that I really missing so so much living far at reach.
For the future is in my brain, let the pain be the gain.
For the future is in my heart let me wish that sourthern band.
For your the most annointed girl of all my girls and lovers,
Stay always at your unimagenary total lunar smile.
Light of the East, shine into me
Illuminate my mind this day.
Let my thoughts be bright and clear.
I Honor you and seek your Blessing,
Hail and Welcome!
Fire of the South, burn within me
Lend me your heat and energy
To bring my best to this new day.
I Honor you and seek your Blessing,
Hail and Welcome!
Waters of the West, wash over me
Cool my passions, purify my desires
That I may meet this new day
Clean in spirit and intent.
I Honor you and seek your Blessing,
Hail and Welcome!
Earth of the North, rest firm beneath me
Grant me the strengths I may need this day
Let me be balanced and sure of stride.
I Honor you and seek your Blessing,
Hail and Welcome!
Spirit binding all together
Protect me from ill fate or weather.
As it is Above, so may it be Below
As off to face this day I go.
Hail and Welcome!
Western heaven
Twenty four hours: His
Sunset moonrise
Dear Lord and Lady:
I thank Thee for the gifts of life;
I thank Thee for the gifts of death.
May I be ever mindful
Of the souls who share
My coursing blood, my freshening breath.
If, when the hours of night have closed upon your head,
you feel silent and alone
Remember me.
Because , I would cross mountains ,
run through fire and rain
give up all that i owned ,
just to have you love me as much as i love you.
May you keep your spurs a jinglin’—
May you cross the flooded ford—
May you ride the range forever
Next the horse that seats our Lord.