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Best Ecclesiastes Poems


Ecclesiastes 9:9-12
Wise Solomon called it vanity
that men should strive to gain
more earthly possessions than wisdom
even tho it brings strife and pain.

For we know not what time we are given
tho we be snared in an evil time.
So live joyfully with whom thou lovest
that true joy your heart...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, history, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ecclesiastes 2:17
I have a good friend who has some problems with his head.
Jesus, I heard him wish that he was already dead.
You say up in heaven, after all this we'll be fine,
But how many friends have you, and why do you need mine?

I have a good...

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© Bo Vigoren  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ecclesiastes, death, death of a
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ecclesiastes Chapter 3
To all who have been faithful, and also those who’ve sinned,
everything is meaningless, it’s like chasing the wind!
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun;
seeing what I had achieved from all my hands had done.
My work became grievous, so much that...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, religiontime, time,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Ecclesiastes 11:4
Do not wait for favorable conditions
to sow your seeds of life.
For the perfect time will never come
in this world of turmoil and strife....

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Categories: ecclesiastes, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Always the Same -Ecclesiastes 1: 4
The cycles of life goes on and on
every twenty-four hours round it goes
generations pass both old and young
the winds of change forever it flows

But in all these changing scenes of life
the earth is forever always to be forever
this is God's great creation on display
showing the...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, earth, life, world,
Form: Rhyme
Ecclesiastes 12:7
From dust we come, unto dust we return
at the end of this thing called life.
When our spirit shall return to God
an we step into eternity's light....

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Categories: ecclesiastes, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Man's Duty To God - Ecclesiastes 12: 13
'Let us hear' seems so simple to do
but how often is our eardrums so dull
as if not concerned whether we do hear
better be sure before God calls for a cull

God always looks for a conclusion
He brings out the facts before our eyes
making us consider the...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, bible, god, men,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Vanity of Wisdom -Ecclesiastes 1: 18
The writer of this old testament book
Solomon the son of David so great
God gave him a choice of His gift
he chose wisdom a choice first rate

He trained his heart to be wise
be able to be knowledgeable true
so never to be caught out at all
many would...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, bible, vanity, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Ecclesiastes 9:11 (New International Version)
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Ecclesiastes 9:11 (New International Version) 
 11 I have seen something else under the sun: 
       The race is not to the swift 
       or...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, education, imagination, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Ecclesiastes
Words of wisdom everybody sees 
comes from the Book of Ecclesiastes. 
They were written by wise men in the court of Solomon the King. 
Under heaven, there is a time and place for everything....

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Categories: ecclesiastes, philosophy, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Everything In Its Time - Ecclesiastes 3: 1,2
Life has it’s many seasons
every purpose in it’s right time
wherever we are there’s a plan
whether in life’s dotage or it’s prime

There’s a time to come forth
into life to take the first breath
but also when you breath your last
that marks your time of death

In all of...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, bible, birth, death, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Understanding Ecclesiastes 3:1 To 3:8
The continuous clock of Heaven
moves in silence
as we travel the trials and tribulations of life
Could that we notice when we concern ourselves
with the trivial small things that matter not to God
Each season comes, Each season passes
we grow older each time through its passing
Happiness is fleeting,...

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Categories: ecclesiastes, bible, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
A Synopsis of the Book of Ecclesiastes
30 sayings from the bible
1)      Generations come and generations go, yet the world remain the same
2)      Sun rises and goes back to repeat the same pattern all over the same; again day after day
3) ...

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© Chui Munga  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ecclesiastes, africa, america, butterfly, creation,
Form: Free verse
You Inspire Me
I
Waiting ...
Not on the LORD
But on a phone call
So, I turn to poetry
Led by Jesus & His Word
"All is vanity"

II
I know there's nothing new
Something Solomon knew
Wrote about in "Ecclesiastes"
All is vanity, under the sun
I seek heat under His Son
But the dead world will beckon
If not...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ecclesiastes, bible, jesus, jewish, judgement,
Form: Free verse
The Swap
Flip flop,  
Tick tock,  
Time goes.

Stealing,  
Swapping,  
He or she knows. 

Your place,  
Your space,  
They desire.

Backstabber,  
Doppelganger,  
For hire....

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Categories: ecclesiastes, destiny, mental illness, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry