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Sackcloth Poems - Poems about Sackcloth

Premium MemberSleeping In His Meadows

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He sleeps in the meadows
                       on a pillow made of flowers 
Arc-Angel voices are heard 
              from afar 
A gentle wind 
                  blows softly 
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Categories: sackcloth, analogy, jesus,
Form: Epitaph

Premium MemberCross references of Daniel 12:11-13 part four Q and A

...V 11 Daniel 9:27  The he (the Anti-christ) shall confirm a covenant with many for
one week: (Israel and other countries for seven years.) Rev. 11:2,3 "But leave out
the court (of the temple of Jeru...
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Categories: sackcloth, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose



Premium MemberINVICTUS

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 *Inspired By Nelson Mandela

 Out of the Pitts of Darkness, In the Absence Of Light
 where even the faintest smile Glistens, In Spite
 there I give thanks to the Higher Power Abode
 That I, h...
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Categories: sackcloth, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem

...How dark the night, when the end came
and love vanished in a voiceless turbulent moment
when eyes pulled away, leaving a vacuum
as pain and sorrow blackened the skin of my heart

Allowing tears ...
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Categories: sackcloth, lost love,
Form: Free verse

The White Jasmine Lord

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         I

  first flowers open, seasons begin ! : 
  bloom before doom 
  as always

Rajasthani breeze sweet and scentful 
fanning out to the sunset :
a caress ! across the ripeness of ap...
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Categories: sackcloth, allegory, beauty,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWhere The Gale Force Rips

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 When the storms come raging, a Tug Of War of Winds
 Pressed into the Abyss with a Broken Ship,
 Against the Tide where The Gale Force Rips
 Mapless you sail Adrift,
 Tossed about by the Curren...
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Categories: sackcloth, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Black Mass Wedding

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    Self's colors-change in the modes of wanting, 
as a chameleon in the daylight, 
as the seasons fade to black, hunting season
where loyalty is clothed in sackcloth, 
used as a knapsack w...
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Categories: sackcloth, art,
Form: Rhyme

Paenitentia

...We can mortify our flesh,
wear our sign of confession,
perform our penance,
bear portions of scratchy sackcloth
so rough, so abrasive, against our bare backs.

Our sideboard now bears such a tr...
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Categories: sackcloth, anger, riddle,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Book of Revelation's Seal Judgement's Part Two Continued

...When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the alter the souls of those 
who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony that 
they had maintained. Than they called out in a loud vo...
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Categories: sackcloth, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Being a Christian Nudist

...I'm a christian Nudist,
I believe that the only way to find true pleasure as a christian,
Is to give up all worldly belongings, live as a Nudist, 
And worship God in the skin you were born in.

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Categories: sackcloth, africa, angel, art, bible,
Form: Classicism

Premium MemberReason To Cry

...On the Jewish calendar, Tisha b'Av is the saddest day
    We don't even smile, say 'Hi' or 'Good morning'
  For when those who spied out the Land spoke untruly
    The Lord gave the Jewish People ...
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Categories: sackcloth, history, jewish, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRepent

...repent
with sackcloth and ashes
turn back
to prayer in schools
skeleton phalanges off our youth...
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Categories: sackcloth, child abuse,
Form: Tanka

Plighting Our Troth Or Trothing Our Plight

...We plight our troth for little but froth 
To be whelmed in plight, ashes and sackcloth
The phrase is plain but blind we remain 
It is hard to enjoy a stone broth!...
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Categories: sackcloth, divorce, wedding, wisdom,
Form: Rubai

Lamentations

...Sackcloth and ashes
blood and steel clashes 

carbon dust burnt at last 
digging the umber crust

sackcloth and ashes lie 
as time passes into the future 

it is written on the walls, 
some...
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Categories: sackcloth, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Man of Worth

...What is it that makes a “man of worth”?
Can it even be measured?
Put into words?

Is it the breadth of his shoulders?
The strength of his arms?
His physical charms?

Is it the expanse of his ...
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Categories: sackcloth, beauty, for him, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

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