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Best Magdalene Poems

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Mary Magdalene
One summer eve in Galilee
I stood before my open door;
to me it seemed just one more night--
like all the others gone before.
Someone would come and,...

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Categories: magdalene, christian, devotion, easter, faith,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: magdalene, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: magdalene, blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Easter Means To Me
I followed you from Galilee
To that sad day on Calvary
     Of love You spoke
     New hope You...

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Categories: magdalene, faith, holidayheart, easter, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

Winter solitude  would be gone.

The avalanche of differences melts into nothingness.

Through the same...

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Categories: magdalene, jesus, true love,
Form: Free verse



The Deposition
The Deposition

The love God gives remains unbound.
Jesus of Nazareth came down. 
Everlasting, His love abounds.
 
Deliverer and Redeemer: crucified, He died. 
Eternal sacrifice, His perfect...

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Categories: magdalene, faithlove, , cute,
Form: Acrostic
The Island
My island slept for years in the care
Of Tainos, Caribs and Arawak
Their canoes on the sea breast bare
Dreaming of milk from manioc
The swamps unscarred, trees...

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Categories: magdalene, places
Form: Verse
Premium Member Black Molasses
"Black Molasses"



Black Molasses 
holds to ransom 
footprints 
sucked into 
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like molten glucose 
shot into the veins
of Mother Earth...

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Categories: magdalene, death, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All In a Day At the Louvre
Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square inch...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magdalene, art, paris, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Godly Women - 2
Some are mothers, reflections of love
Poured out on children who abide in hope
Remembering that Mary, the mother of Jesus,
Gave us all a sense of the...

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Categories: magdalene, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Unmerited Favor
My name is Miriam, the prophetess
I have spent my whole lifetime in slavery 
Moses my brother was saved from the river 
and grew up in...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magdalene, bible, god,
Form: Lyric
Jesus
On the day your eyes open
                   ...

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Categories: magdalene, inspirational, life, love, religion,
Form: Free verse
Magdalen
one last glearyeyed look
towards the clouded-sky,
and the legs trapped beneath her shook
loose the one thought she'd always denied.
she would watch his hand sweep
& cradle her...

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Categories: magdalene, allegory, art, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member That He Must Rise From the Dead -John 20: 9
On the Easter morning at the tomb
when Mary Magdalene went to see
the stone had been rolled away
who would she tell? Who would agree?
 
To the...

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Categories: magdalene, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2



Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my...

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Categories: magdalene, imagery, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs