Best Manger Poems

Machinating the manger scene

The little shepherd sat at night
and kept his sheep within his sight
he gazed up at the starry night
and saw one star was shining bright
onto a solitary manger site
inside a candle gave its light
two images appeared in sight
and in a straw crib was...

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Manger Shadow

A shadow lurks behind the manger bed
 Swaddled by indifference,
  Creeping behind
 Lowing cows 
And 
Bleating sheep,
Power without power raising up a hoary head
 While in vanity dim shades attempt to weave
  A gloomy thread into the scent
   	 Of...

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"Though passing through sad and sombre times, let us be gladdened by the joy and peace Xmas brings"- by Poet

She felt the kicks, this time more intense
A mother’s primal instinct told her thus;
‘Can travel no further, need a place 
To rest and ease your birth...

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    The Missing Manger

The snow was whirling as they
passed the Church.
The boy, only six, asked his
mother,
"Where is the manger?"

How could she tell him what had
passed?
That the world decided Jesus was
a useless human being, alas!

The government decided it so!
That man who died on Calvary,
so very long ago,...

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I Bethlehem a King came forth,
   His name was Jesus Christ and Lord.
Born in a stable where animals fed
   No royal bed for His wee head.
The manger where the Christ Child lay
   was filled with fresh sweet smelling hay.
He...

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Two brand new manger scenes were donated to our local church,
One went on the minister’s desk the other took the organ as its perch.

The idea was to provide a scene that was both merciful and mild.
But when the organist came to practice on Tuesday night...

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Beneath the twilight soars bright shooting stars,   * 
r a d i a n t  hues in cosmic fantasy-                  *    * ...

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to faithful compassion the Lord is no stranger,
      when He birthed truth and love in a manger.
 

December 20, 2016...

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Brightening the manger scene is the awesome Christmas story…
Midst technology-apps, it is illumined with varied light’s iridescence
Enlivening the glorious, blissful and jovial prevalence
Of God’s love reaching down to humanity with great victory.

Quickening to life the nativity characters is computer-driven wisdom…
Animated Joseph and Mary converse with...

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I dreamed once a future
with Mary and her long claws
suspended from a dragon body
captive and held by force field
hidden beneath a big cowled robe
saddened by a stainless steel trough
and a baby tended by robots.
Joesph busily scanned nametags
from angels misting purifiers.
The drummer boy stood by self-playing
digital...

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I, was slowly passing all open farms on rail;
The chugging kept me hugging, the little one so pale,
Her cough was loud, her cold was still a mess,while in my quest did tried my 
best to hide the pain, that held her chest;
Alone, a man was...

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john john the story telling mouse
sat high on a toadstool house
telling the story as it was told to him
and at the children he did grin.
he started to tell the story of peter mouse
and how story telling came about.
this was the story as it was told...

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out in the pasture sits a church
homemade by brothers hands and filled with dirt

given to Mother so it stops her hurt
decorated each Christmas for what's its worth

as Mother lays down the cotton skirt
out comes the angels the manger and baby Jesus without a shirt

next comes...

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Snowing tonight….incandescent, luminescent,
Silvery snow, whispering divine dreams.. 
Air misty, breeze calm, serene! Do I see the 
Brilliant Star, which directed the wise men
To a stable on an evening of starry twilight ...

When the three wise magi spotted the
Brightest star in the east, their surprise,
And their...

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a narrative with the rhyme of Twas the Night Before Christmas)

Twas the night before Christmas, the manger's convinced,
it stands ready to cradle a Savior and Prince.
The no vacancy sign caused men's wonder and doubt,
manger's role is a pivot. God's working it out!

As we gawk, looking...

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