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Best Psalm Poems

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Premium Member Psalm
In changing of the seasons that go on

unceasingly, from winter until fall;

in each day's path from day until the dawn -

I see so much, yet...

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Categories: psalm, creation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My Thoughts On Psalm 23
Beside the still waters he leadeth me
Shepherd of my wandering soul
I do not want for anything, you see,
My shepherd has made me whole.

I have walked...

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Categories: psalm, religious, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In the Psalm of Your Hand
I am unable to earn your Salvation Lord. 
Still you have blessed me, who is undeserving.
As a testament to your loving kindness,
my actions are my...

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Categories: psalm, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: psalm, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member O April
O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life 
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered 
from the grasping earthen frost -...

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Categories: psalm, appreciation, april, beauty, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Am Not Brave
How brave the amaryllis is
emerging naked from the soil,
an umber golden spear to pierce
the heresy of August air.

I am not brave like pilgrim bulbs,
though planted...

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Categories: psalm, color, flower, metaphor, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Lullaby My Lustrous Twilight
Golden-flecked bliss   
of enraptured blown-kiss   
stardust bestrewn   

beguiling skies   
bespangled sequin eyes   
shimmer in swoon...

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Categories: psalm, angel, dream, heaven, night,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: psalm, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Because I Live
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
  Is our destined end or way;
  But to act, that each to-morrow
  Find us farther than today.”
A...

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Categories: psalm, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Light and the Veil
The Lord is my salvation and my light,
the stronghold of my life, whom shall I fear?
Protecting when the foe attacks by night;
the prayers of his...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: psalm, faith, god, light,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Choir of Nature
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness therein, the world and they that dwell therein”
A Psalm of David…

Solitary, I stand upon these ever changing...

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Categories: psalm, faith, happiness, nature, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Shoreline
Watching sunrise, shoreline's ablaze
Love letter sent from Thee
I sing a psalm, an Easter palm
And start my day with glee.

Watching sunset, shoreline's agleam
A note Thou sent...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: psalm, beauty, god, sea, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
The Preacher Man
His narrow eyes, misguided lies
Misguide his narrow plan,
To cleanse the world from demons, he
Was called The Preacher Man.

“I see no proof, I hear no truth!
Your...

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Categories: psalm, peoplechildren,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prayer For the Bahamas
With broken hearts we turn to You
Our tears cannot help those in need
To countless souls we bid adieu
And hope You listen as we plead

Bahamians need...

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Categories: psalm, faith, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Sees the Courageous At Work
Strangers are attacking me; 
ruthless men seek my life—
men without regard for God.  Selah

Psalm 54:3

GOD SEES THE COURAGEOUS AT WORK

Wild-eyed disregard for God —
The...

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Categories: psalm, abortion, christian, dark, murder,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things