Crosses Poems | Examples

SOUTHERN CROSSES I

Electric Line's sway, 
spider webs of industry 
along a rocky lane under 
a hot southern sun, cicada…
cry high, into the crystal blue sky 
We are a ghost nation 
of Man’s hypocrisy
crossing shadows under a hard
noonday sky.

The empty road under the leaning 
Electric crosses of civilization 
Shadows fall, carving silhouettes into
Upon hitting noonday ground 
Humanity lost all reason 
Along a rocky, dusty road 
As day bleeds into a hot
Southern night
Crickets cry high

As the moon rides the 
White galleons of cloudscapes
As star falls in infernal southern sky
Frogs sing the song of endless rain 
As electric crosses lean
Under the halogen of streetlights 

Crosses stand, lean to and fro
Like graves of the day
Souls drift and sway
As a nation is lost along the way
Bought and sold
While electric crosses align
A forgotten road
Of a Nowhere nation, undone…
Watching all fold…!

Driving Wheels, Crosses On The Side Of The Road

Crosses on the side of the road;
Belief in passengers goes by —
Where wrecked light within flowers grow,
Crosses on the side of the road
That besides the glass window hold,
A memory's attest to time —
Crosses on the side of the road,
Belief in passengers goes by —

Love Crosses the Borders

Love is born in our hearts
Our hearts make it grow
It matures within us unconditionally

Unconditionally, it grows among people
People from here and there
There is no limit for true love

True love has no explanation
Explanation makes it grow in us
Develops for someone on a foreign land

Love remains the core of our existence
Existence God put in humans
Humans across the borders

Borders separating people 
People break barriers due to love
Love is boundaryless, colorless and ageless
And ageless develops another love in older humans
Humans of wisdom and natural affection

Poem by N. Mugisho

burning bridges and crosses

kitchens and closets
burning bridges and crosses ~
kneel and know your place


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What crosses the line

What crossed the line with you
Was it something said or a thing to do
Did you suffer it in silence made
And wonder at the next escapade

Is it a memory held deep down
That surfaces like a buoy in ocean bound
To bob and ring its bell
Knowing it is part of your private hell

So what will you do about such a thing
Do you let it intrude once you hear its ring
Or sink it down to founder and drown
Not letting it breath or bob around. 

© Paul Warren Poetry

The Three Crosses

The middle cross, 'redemption' declares, 
God's love revealed through Jesus Christ's death, 
His body broken, sin's brunt, He bears;
One thief by His side, 'rejection' shows, 
Mocked Christ's deity, offered no pray'rs, 
Gave up his only chance at heaven;
The other one totally despairs, 
Fears God ere taking his final breath, 
'Reception' of Christ - paradise heirs. 


Form: Magic 9
Rhyme scheme: abacadaba

Weeds and Such

I
I travel alone, sometimes with Wendolene
But shorter trips done alone if I feel bored
I talk to weeds. Some bear brilliant buds, beings

II
Little rocks jump up and converse, too -
Take me home, paint a cross, for children
Call it your little rock ministry

III
Across the miles, weeds & rocks console me
They nurture what's hurt, need another touch
Not always human, but more sensitive?

Improvised, Noughts and Crosses

"Improvised, Noughts and Crosses" 

points strung 
pearls lacking
wisdom scattered
poetically, 
of no large matter
rolling lost across a floor
stuck in the cracks
hidden in strange corners,
what do points matter;
when connected
unbroken, 
the creative heart
improvised united,
becomes beautiful 
more pure,
of some composed 
great importance,
love like magic,
lifts the room
vibrating higher
by score

the lost pearls.
points wedged 
in strange corners,
hear the sound

lifted, they
understand,
it all 

improvised,
vibrating higher 
by score

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)




“Ben Folds & The Contemporary Youth Orchestra”
https://youtu.be/xMs3XoRM1LM

"Ben Folds and Contemporary Youth Orchestra Improvised Piece"
https://youtu.be/36MLAWaigM0

“One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces”/Ben Folds Five
https://youtu.be/SrWSkQMWlAY

Crosses

Signposts for a highway
Heavenly bound?
Or just markers, letting on
The dead are found?

Three Crosses

One cross 
Left side 
Silent bore the shame of cursed 
Guilt, with scant remorse and no 
Small scoff 
Unfearful of 
Dying breath. 

Middle rood 
Central one 
Focus of the centuries distant yon 
Condemned to die for all, Godson 
Giving weak 
Lost souls 
Eternal life. 

One cross 
Right side 
Afraid to pay earned shameful debt 
Seeks absolution for crimes of theft 
Pleads now 
For saving 
Unmerited grace.


Written January 2, 2021
For Joseph May's Trinet Contest

No Hands No Feet Worm Crosses Street-

I have no feet nor legs yet I walk the streets?  I AM A WORM!


8/29/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©

Chicken Feet Crosses Street While Eating Candy--

If chickens have feet,
Why run across the street?
Do chickens have teeth?
And can they eat candy?
What do they put in chicken feed anyway?



8/31/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©

Rugged Crosses

For me,
but not for my kids,
it was The Old Rugged Cross
teaching my ego/eco-logic crossed
to believe adults could deprive their Earthly minds
of sacred co-passionate investment
and yet thrive uniformly healthy bodies
of equitable wealthy,
yet sacrificially lonely,
dignity.

Not until I uncovered
The Blessings of the Earth and Sky (K. Patton, J.S. Bach)
did I think to wonder win/win why
Earth and sky, crossed and yet recovered
more resilient Earthly bodies together, than apart,
with skyward polyphonic minds soaring
not uniform aspiring
prey avoiding predators
yet unity inspiring Earth's communal co-relationships.

How ever did we get this strange left-brain nightmare,
wealthy bodies
can be severed,
crossed out
away from mental passion for health,
co-responsive
interdependent webs
of Earth and Sky
secular and sacred,
liberating science and liberal multi-enculturing arts, 
integrity's double-crossed communion
of Earth's original healthing wealthy purpose.

Crosses

Many religions utilize, the symbol of the cross;
Christians symbol of the Quaternary;
Early Christianity ringed it; when fell, the ring was lost.
Modern Christianity worships the Trinity.

Pagan symbol, adopted by Roman Catholicism;
to lure Pagans away from Paganity.
Intended to eliminate the Christian/Pagan schism;
Christians believed they were saving humanity.

Ancient Egyptians, had the Ankh; symbol of eternal life; 
it’s ring’s at the top; it’s said to be male and female.
Pharaohs worshipping the Aten carried it to the afterlife;
Tutt’s Dad, Akhenaten, worshiped Ra; Ra was a male.

Cross’s Origin, Ancient Chaldea; 
original symbol for Tau. 



Notes: The Cross originated in Ancient Chaldea .aka. Babylon where, it resembled the symbol for the Tao; the crossbar was, lowered by the Roman Catholics and adopted as their symbol.  Jesus was, actually nailed to an upright pole. 
http://www.albatrus.org/english/religions/pagan/origin_of_cross.htm 

Aten was the disk representing the Sun, in Ancient Egypt.  It was representative of the Monotheistic Religion of Akhenaten; King Tutt’s Father.  The disk was the symbol for the Sun God Ra.

Tough Losses, Rough Crosses

Harden not your heart when humble pie lands on your plate
Rubbing your pride in the mud
Nudging your memory, reminding you it ain’t too late to debate
Whether crushing with a thud

Kills, steals or heals
Your longing pride
That feels
Too big to deride the ride

Into peacock attitudes
Built and overblown over the years
To delude yourself you’ve soared to such lofty latitudes
You can’t roll back the years to join volunteers

Who willingly accept the loss
Suffered in soccer
Where World Cup match outcomes toss
Out Spain, France, Argentina, Spain, or Brazil with no rancor

To entertain
Today or tomorrow
To ascertain, maintain or retain
Sanity, dignity, humanity in your bone marrow.

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