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Where has all the illuminating light fled
Is as if I have long ago been dead
I have awakened to blinding...
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Categories:
prayer, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Sonnet
RosieRosie rosily
Reciting her rosary
Dolefully hopeful...
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Categories:
christian, god, jesus, prayer,
Form: Haiku
AND I ADMIT That IT IS TRUEAND I ADMIT That IT IS TRUE
And I admit that it is true,
Christ told believers preach.
God's Kingdom's, form of government,
over earth ... this truth teach.
God chose Christ, as earth's ruling King,
His miracles here do.
Gone...
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Categories:
prayer, change, earth, environment, planet,
Form: Rhyme
WILD FIRES
Jolted out of my sleep state,
weary eyed, it’s 4 am.
It takes a minute to clear the haze;
I’m waking to the scent of distant fires.
Recalling the news of yesterday,
slowly, reality starts to set in.
We’re not in...
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Categories:
prayer, fire, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
I DeclareI Declare,
If you were to ask
Ask of me
To tell you of Elohim
And show Him to thee
Then I would speak
For hours not few
Declaring in my words
My Elohim to you
Righteous is He
An Elohiom of...
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Categories:
prayer, bible, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Damn my eyesSpilling myself with an ink-soaked feather
pages cocooned by mahogany leather,
eroded and weathered
“Damn my eyes”
“My deeds unjustified”
Perusing prose to anesthetize my pain
my windowpane dripping with drops of autumn rain
feigning contentment for a fleeting moment in vain
“Gouge...
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Categories:
allah, god, jesus, prayer,
Form: Free verse
In Memoriam Quietly Always CloseIn Memoriam Quietly Always Close
Are they whispers, then, settling
So gently upon that slightest breeze wending
Over the granite crosses and statues of cradling angels,
Which stand in...
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Categories:
prayer, grave, heaven, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Shattered moral compassI uncover my blackened face
My frail hands trembling
As I fervently seek the remedy
I have nothing except morsels of supplication
And a thousand restless nights to my name...
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Categories:
prayer, allah, christian, god, islamic,
Form: Free verse
DRY LAND MAN SUPPLICATION
Categories:
prayer, allusion, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Glory Set Me FreeAs far as Eyes could see
I never thought I could come back to thee
You untraveled my twisted yarn and year knots so patiently
Knitted my soul back together
And
In all your Glory, you recreated out of me...
A...
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Categories:
prayer, bible, color, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
HARSH STORM wujue
Harsh storm / great flood blows
Crashed hill / drenched field flows
Blocked light / dark town prays
Faith cheered / peace* brings glows
*John 16:33 These things I (Jesus Christ) have spoken unto you, that in me ye...
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Categories:
prayer, analogy, christian, faith, god,
Form: Jueju
Friend PrayerI sleep well because of you. This thing inside me that you do. I wrote these words, so now too late to rewind, recall or obfuscate.
It's early and as I debate just what I should...
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Categories:
friendship, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
MY PRAYER
Merciful, generous,loving Father,
May you carry my feet farther;
And lift my life to heights higher;
And make my days brighter.
I don't know how to pray like I should,
So I cry more often than I would.
But tonight,I bring...
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Categories:
christian, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
I PRAY AND SPEAK LIFE ABUNDANCE --crI pray and speak
to you well
in all areas of your life
I pray and speak
supernatural encouragement
I ask Our Father
to divinely keep,
you safe
Sleep be blessed in your rest
I PRAY AND...
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Categories:
prayer, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, how
Form: Light Verse
An entreatyI have lost my way because my heart does sway,
so please do show me the truth in slow motion,
that I may see my true Self, as clear as day,
by being, so becoming, the vast ocean,
blissful...
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Categories:
prayer,
Form: Ottava rima
Specific Types of Prayer Poems
Read wonderful prayer poetry on the following sub-topics:
beautiful, birthday, breakfast, family, for the sick, friends, funeral, goodnight, healing, him, kindness, life, loss, power of, strength, students, to god,
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Definition | What is Prayer in Poetry?
Poems Related to Prayer
invocation, service, appeal, worship, plea, rogation, communion, request, begging, litany, orison, application, supplication, entreaty, petition, pleading, suit, benediction, grace, devotion, imprecation, imploration, answer adoration, beseeching, imploring, request for help,