Jonah Poems - Poems about Jonah

Repent America, for your 7 great abominations. Like Ancient Nineveh, you have also shed innocent blood, you adulterous and ungrateful drunkards. You have forsaken God for another. Your Apathy is telling and your...Read the rest...

Jonah, praying in the great fish, with putrid slime on red eyelids, has the sudden faith of near death - sings on the beach, fish-vomit in his beard. Whale-songs drift, doubts echo, luring a pod to sand spits where waves throw up ...Read the rest...

Man o' mine, bravest o’ sailors, singing sea shanties with death, he wades through icy glaciers, o’ the frostiest breath. Cling to vein and steady this vessel, doldrum this destine my love, Jonah, thy mustn't wrestle, with the goddess above. If waves...Read the rest...

Through the front Mr. Jonah was swallowed. In the sea monster’s belly he wallowed. In the muck and the gas unhygienic, alas, was the back door expulsion that followed....Read the rest...

You are not wrong So please don’t feel blue But people, belittle They’ll manipulate you You are not wrong Just because you’re unique But people will judge As they love to speak You are not wrong If you don’t fit the mold Forget...Read the rest...

Jonah was rashly curious And it became injurious: Unannounced slap and hard kick And it earned him wounds to lick... A crude one on his tummy And an adult yelled "Mummy!" The song in his ears "leave now Or else you're...Read the rest...

commissioning and attempted escape “Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go And tell them of their great impending woe; Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.” But Jonah ran; he traveled down to Joppa. (Wait, Jonah who? Oh, Amittai’s...Read the rest...

(continued from 'Son of Amattai - 1 of 2') in the belly of the fish Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God, Deep from the belly of leviathan. “I cried out to you, Lord, in my distress, For I...Read the rest...

"Signal! Raise the alarm bells, For rebels sink below the swells! Watchmen! Let the rebels know, Sin creates the Undertow." Against the Enemy's death throes, The Justifier, winnows! "I will shakedown your whole world, And sin and shame will be hurled!" Just then...Read the rest...

There once lived a man named Jonah, whom God asked to go to Nineveh. Warn the people of my judgment, was God’s specific commandment. Jonah resented being sent not wanting his foes to repent. but wishing the annihilation, of that vile and...Read the rest...

Three days and three nights in a fish Is more sushi than one might wish But God had a plan That needed a man To analeyes how fish tails swish...Read the rest...

Lying flat on our backs Parallel to the sky Both completely relaxed Lying flat on our backs Naming clouds that go by Just sweet Jonah and I Lying flat on our backs Parallel to the sky...Read the rest...

To preach to Ninevah was not his wish - So sailing west, the prophet disobeyed. When God appointed wind and storm and fish To punish, teach, and save him, Jonah prayed: "I called out to the...Read the rest...

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims! Nahum 3:1 NIV FORGETTING JONAH Nineveh suffers. turn your back...don’t feel sorry. how the mighty cry in their evil-wicked ways. mercy long, not forever… 11/8/2019...Read the rest...

Too often, I find, you’ve fallen behind Brightly, you shine, at end of the line More passion than most Intensely you boast Embrace your design, in a world, unkind...Read the rest...