Best Jonah Poems

At the computer sits Dickie McDuff
Searching a password that isn't too tough
    With a cocky demeanor
    He types in 'mywiener'
And the computer says "Not long enough!"...

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To preach to Ninevah was not his wish - 
So sailing west, the prophet disobeyed. 
When God appointed wind and storm and fish 
To punish, teach, and save him, Jonah prayed:
"I called out to the Lord in my distress, 
I cried for help from deep...

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You are not wrong
So please don’t feel blue
But people, belittle 
They’ll manipulate you

You are not wrong 
Just because you’re unique
But people will judge
As they love to speak

You are not wrong
If you don’t fit the mold
Forget what they say
They’re naive and bold

You are not wrong
For just...

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Jonah found himself in a most dreadful fix

   He nearly had an encounter with the River Styx

      He was freed by the whale's timely regurgitation

         Thus easing its bellyache and...

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He carries his troubles wherever he goes
The curse he conceals too easily shows
They shrink back in fear as the black tumor grows
He carries his troubles wherever he goes

He carries his troubles wherever he goes
He refused to re-pay the debt that he owes
Throw him to the...

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The tail upon the broken glass
          darkness surrounds a haunted soul
    An eclipse rents the stolen mans home
           trauma engulfs the woodpile homes
...

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Daniel Joshua and Jonah
            (children's song music & lyrics by Joan Donnelly 1991)
Verse 1
 Now Daniel was thrown to the Lions but he was in God's care
 Daniel prayed to God three times a...

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When a Spirit leaves their dwelling time, wonders about finding no rest..
So they say within another day I shall return unto this whence we departed ?
Gathering seven others worse than themselves and the gesture there thus becomes
More evil as most assuredly it once was ?...

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He is sworn in holding a branch
Cut from the tree of life and a vine
That's sacred he swears to protect
His people the tree and the vine
He swears by the sacred abode

Shortly afterwards he gets the vision
Go to Nineveh Jonah and warn them
He departs not to...

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Three days and three nights in a fish
Is more sushi than one might wish
But God had a plan
That needed a man
To analeyes how fish tails swish...

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The sonorous voice of God woke Jonah from his siesta one fine day,
Saying, "Arise! Get ye to Nineveh and I'll brook no delay!
I've volunteered you to go there and preach in that wicked town,
The people are very unruly - they need a good dressing down!"

"No...

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After Jonah got out of the whale, he went to the city of Nineveh and warned the Ninevites.
He told them that God was going to destroy them because they weren't doing what was right.
God was going to destroy them in forty days because of the...

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And Allah establishes the Truth by His words
No matter how much it is disliked by the transgressors!...

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The land is soaked with blood
The sand is soaked with tears
Oh
How many barrels of blood must be spilled
to know that so many souls are gone?
How many basins of tears does it take
to have more than enough tears?
.
I am the voice of the little child
crying in...

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God has already prepared a big sea fish;
So, throw Jonah overboard.
You will make promises to this God
After you throw Jonah overboard.
The wild squall will finally be calmed
When you throw Jonah overboard.
Pray to God for what you're about to do
And throw Jonah overboard.

You won't be able...

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