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Best Good Friday Poems

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Premium Member Good Friday
GOOD FRIDAY

We all call it Good Friday
It was really good for the sinner
Death won round one
But on Sunday, we crown the winner


	Kyle Giddens
	Pastor, Olivet Baptist...

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Categories: christian, good friday,
Form: Rhyme



Good Friday
on good friday
Our Saviour died
so with God we can be reconsiled
he died to take our burden and pain
he came to set thr captives free
he died...

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Categories: good friday, encouraging, faith, god, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Days Prior
Friday, three days prior;
The Son was scourged and bleeding.
Sunday, when He rose again-
A spotless Lamb proceeded.

Friday, three days prior;
The Son had cried: “forsaken?”
Sunday, when He...

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© Tom Valles  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: good friday, christian, easter, god, good
Form: Rhyme
Hallelujah, What a Savior
On that fateful day He went away,
His disciples hid, full of fear and dismay.
His family gazed through tear filled eyes,
At the man non believers had...

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Categories: good friday, celebration, christian, easter, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Meaning of Easter
jesus died and jerusalem went black
the wind howled and the sky thundered loudly
people ran in fear as the earth moaned
but the beloved stayed
jesus was buried...

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Categories: death, easter, good friday,
Form: Ekphrasis



Why Hides the Sun His Face As In Defeat
LXXVIII 
Why hides the sun his face as in defeat?
The day is done and this ninth hour had come
As sorrows flood with tears that grace...

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Categories: good friday, death, forgiveness, god, good
Form: Sonnet
Better Days
''Better Days"

Better days indeed!
Its been long since a smile appeared 
upon my grumpy face.
The rain refused to fall,
It  was now a dry heart like...

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Categories: good friday, blessing, care, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dad
‘MY DAD’

It was on 'Good Friday'1973,

The doctor delivered his verdict, he said 'he has the big c',

He stood there expressionless, not a flicker crossed his...

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© Pat Dring  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: good friday, anniversary, family, love, good
Form: Rhyme
If You'Re a Witness Shout Out
Give God all the credit and all of the praise
For all that He's done for you during your hectic days
And if you're a witness to...

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Categories: good friday, easter, faith, golf, jesus,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Snowfall
SNOWFALL
I love the fall’s snow white
Fancy some flakes in my dwellings
Flung the door open wide
Run to pick them with my siblings

The Good Friday is best
To...

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Categories: good friday, adventure, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Quatrain
25
Look at me, I’m a 25 year trendy maker!
I feature a brand new me, at present!
Look at me, and Read through my transition,
I wear George...

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Categories: good friday, birth, birthday, class, creation,
Form: Personification
My Monster
My Monster

Every week on Good Friday I get restless
Palpitations rise for my week end disasters
A monster boldly barges into my silent abode
Depriving me of my...

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Categories: good friday, art, child, color, nursery
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Famous Last Lines
Despair Erased (Poem entered in contest before)

The cloudy day omens a dreary week
As we count down to Easter, next Sunday.
After Lent message, we're too sad...

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Categories: easter, good friday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Agony In the Garden
To: All who believe in the cross.

After supper, in the garden, Jesus agonized over 
His destiny. Mark, says He petitioned the Father
asking Him to 'take...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: good friday, religion, pain, easter, good
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I Was There the Day Jesus Died
I was there the day Jesus was crucified upon the cross
I saw his blood fall covering the ground all around his feet
I heard him cry...

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Categories: christian, easter, good friday,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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