Long Barabbas Poems

East west north or south which way should I go?
East West north or south, I just want to sing and shout
We have just had a nice little shower,
To cool down the boiling temperature, 
but it...

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Whispering Angel: Strength of the Babes


		Blubbering baby, newborn to this Earth 
		Tell me why you wail and blubber at birth?
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Could you be afraid of this Earthly Circus?
Well, don’t be afraid and don’t be nervous.
I shall...

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DIARY OF A CRIMINAL

Dear Diary, something happened that’s hard to be believed:
Today I faced a sentence; instead I was reprieved.
They’d brought me to the platform for all the crowd to see,
And as I looked, I...

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Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they gave Him up for 30 pieces silver reward?
Oh what horror, oh what shame;
They even placed upon Him a very special name.
King of the...

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He was the Lamb that had to be slaughtered 
during the Passover and without Calvary, there wouldn't have been any salvation;
nothing would have forgiven our unpardonable sin!
Christ, as Isaiah prophesied, came when Jerusalem
was in dire...

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Some watching my ease
Of execution of the self
The latent anxiety unteased
Writes me off in simplicity.
Some denuding me of honor's wealth
Wait in turmoil 
For a scab to fall and unveil its pus
And if I do not...

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He was with God before the world came to be,
and He created with Him our breath-taking Universe;
His name was Jesus,the Redeemer of the Human Race:
and to change and save us was His destiny...

He preached in...

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YOU CAN GIVE YOUR BEST

Today’s stench in today’s society
Today’s filth in today’s leaders
Today’s corruption in today’s nation
Are the ill-results of yesterday’s ill-attention
	
Fathers, Mothers, Guardians and Teachers
Invest in today’s kids your fishes 
From the seas of...

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Whispering Angel: Strength of the Babes

		Blubbering baby, newborn to this Earth 
		Tell me why you wail and blubber at birth?

Could you be afraid of this Earthly Circus?
Well, don’t be afraid and don’t be nervous.
I shall...

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Hey there, whatcha lookin' at?
Yeh, you in the shadows, pretending like you're reading something.
That's right, YOU!  You DO recognize me eh?  Barabbas!
The meanest man in all Jerusalem!
Ya heard of me --right?
Remember the big...

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I was born in a world ruled by emperors and organized power.
I was Armed with a spirit of combat and weapons of warfare.
Resistance to the death led me to be captured and imprisoned.

There was one,...

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Judas Iscariot would later feel great pity.
The sad state Jesus was in he was able to see.
The thirty pieces of silver received as a fee,
would be thrown in the temple, considered “blood money‘.
This made...

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Two sandaled feet
Beginning a pace
That will grant salvation
To the whole human race

One foot, placed on hard sand ground
Being followed by disciples milling around
Believers clustered with Jesus, enthralled 
Like leaves of a tree that had refused...

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At the end of Mercy Street
lies a forgotten wharf.
A single row boat is 
moss covered.
The battered vessel is 
moored and unwanted
like leprosy -
conducive to an invisible cancer.

Two splintered oars imitate antennae -
receiving distress signals
from no...

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I nudged my way through the crowd,
I heard men and women shout aloud.
“Jesus!”

I stretched my neck as I stood on my tiptoes.
Another shout arose.
“Who will you choose? 
Barabbas, or Jesus, king of the Jews?”
Barabbas’s name...

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When the mind's disease is hate
it flows through the veins unchecked
I'm just a voice of reason in the midst of darkness
striking a match 
a light for minds seeking refuge from a storm
and lift a crying...

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Good Friday be with you all
A once in a year Friday
Christ has been crucified 
Every year for two thousand years
He doesn’t complain at all
Today is a day to fast for believers
Jesus sacrificed his flesh for...

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It was up to the people really,  
Because they had questioned paying their taxes, 
And we had given them the criminality system, 
Which could never be wrong, 
It was right for all. 

Jesus had not...

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I heard a shout from the crowd
Set the guilty free
To this day I still think about
Why him and not me

I'd heard the man was innocent
That he'd done nothing wrong
As he said underneath his breath
Forgive them,...

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A cradle filled with hay 
Our newborn Jesus lay
Born of the Virgin Mary
Sin of man to carry

From the cradle, Mary knew
What Jesus must go through
A world lost and undone
A Savior, He would become

A world who...

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……………….OH! My, my - :)
……...…Here’s One Sunny Smiley-
…….In these times as we need to be 
….How can you be grim intense grumpy
.I mean look at any grinning monkey Oops-
In good spirit; I do not mean...

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The creed of the gang
Blood in, blood out.

Identity
Attention
Insecurity
Acceptance
Significance
All gifted at the place of blood.

Slash a face
Forget any grace
Stab an enemy
A day in infamy
At the gang’s entrance
A deceiving sentence.

Only way out
Prove you can fight
Kick some butt
Spill...

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Bride of Christ we will defend
We are here for Him to send
For the souls that need to mend
This unholy deception, it must end

The violated they saw fit to scare
Were told their stories not to share
Although...

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The Just for the Unjust

BIBLE MEDITATION:
"For Christ also died for sins once for all, the Just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God ..." 1 Peter 3:18

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
A Roman soldier walked...

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He was crucified by the Romans with the sharpest nails
by the will of an angry mob;
did anyone hear Jesus's sob?
Pilate refused to find him guilty and washed his hands.


Betrayed by Peter, hated by rebellious Barabbas;...

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