Built Poems - Poems about Built

Their blood was the poison that would kill them Their presence blinding That's why they hate them They come too close and try to touch them But they didn't know that we are the sun That trying to block out the sun Would become their biggest problem Actions have consequences And we were their karma The one thing they...

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Inspired by the USPS "19th Amendment: Women vote" forever stamp (2020) They stamped her face– like that could contain her fire. Purple, white, and gold– not colors, but warning, wrapped around a marching soul. She didn't walk, she moved like thunder– every step cracking silence, every breath remembering the women who weren't allowed to speak. They called her too loud. Too much. Too wild. But she was...

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A green gust dancing amidst the leaves of ferns In the obscure dawn, the birds are all restive. Had we all been a swarm of unleashed birds For sure we would have built a Mediterranean sea __________________ 25 June 2025 ...

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We did not carve the Sphinx — We birthed it. Not stone, But stillness. Not art, But ascension. It was no monument to pride, But a vehicle of souls, Where kings walked in silence And queens soared in stars, Riding the breath of eternity To the edge of the unknowable. In its darkened chamber, Where light was not needed, We entered the womb of cosmos And fed on the black...

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They say grief comes in waves, but mine is a tide that never learned to leave. It rests beneath my skin like a secret bruise— blue, purple, black where it used to bloom red. I carry silence like a language no one taught me how to unlearn. You told me I was too much, too loud, too sharp, too everything to be loved like something fragile. So I...

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You, who hide behind cold walls built of silence and stone, You, who sit at desks like sentinels of unseen worlds, I just want you to know that I see through your masks, through your porcelain smiles, For my eyes penetrate the invisible cracks of your perfect appearances. Behind closed doors and dusty windows, I feel your hearts beating, Like...

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Once on a day of ice and cold I set out to build my home a throne Dead cold pricked my skin And reminded me of its breath I sat upon a polished rock of guilt But that too wanted me dead Through more nights and days then I could count I built the best seat in man Not gold it was made...

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In order for something to be born Something must die This is how nature lives, the world This is how all life is built You can't leave and stay at the same time It is important to cross the threshold Hang the lock Be able to turn away From things that no longer benefit you Then the world will...

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Was my home built above the endless abyss, Why do I feel beneath my steps the corpses of ancestors whispering in silence, Like invisible strings tightening around my neck, reminding me, Mocking the memory that I am merely an echo of them, a speck of dust. The place I cherished as a sanctuary was just a cemetery of regrets, Why...

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Conclusion of: The House that Eli, the deceased priest of the Lord, built. 1 Samuel 7:17 continued And he built an alter there for the LORD. Commentary: The two separate series are very interconnected. With part one involving the prophet Isaiah's and other servants of the LORD--answering his call into his divine service according to his divine...

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Samuel subdues the Philistines at MIzpah 1 Samuel 7:2-16 It was a long time,twenty years that the ark remained at Kiriath Jearim, and all of the people of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD. And Samuel said to the whole house of Israel,"If you are returning to the LORD with all of your hearts, then ride...

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1 Samuel 6:9-21 continued But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand us that it happened to us by chance." So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves. They placed the ark of the LORD on the...

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1 Samuel 5:8- part seven God's judgment upon the Philistines and Dagon, their false god, for their oppression of Israel continued. So they moved the ark of the God of Israel. But after they had moved it, the LORD's hand was against that city, throwing it into great panic. He afflicted the people of that city,...

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The Death of Ei 1 Samuel 4:18-21 part two (God's judgment on the House of Eli) fell backward off his chair by the side of the gate. His neck was broken, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He lead Israel forty years. His daughter -in-law, the wife of...

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The Philistines Capture the Ark 1 Samuel 4:2-11 continued the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield. When the soldiers returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked,"Why did the LORD bring defeat on us today before the Philistines?" Let us bring the ark of the LORD's coven- ant from Shiloh,...

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