Short Altar Poems

Short Altar Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Altar by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Altar by length and keyword.


Premium Member Beelzebub


I've been out hunting souls.
I need to fill so many holes.
Sleep upon God's holy altar
I will promise to not falter.
Form: Rhyme


Demeter

At the altar of the seasons knelt
She says a prayer each year
For to make the cold snow melt
And let spring time re-appear
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member In My Room

As I walked in the room 

I met 

3 Catholic Bibles 

3 Catechisms (Summary of the bible) 

2 Lamps 

1 Altar 

A bed
Form: List

One Liners Three

Father and Mother build love's altar for a family with God as the center of their lives.



One Liners Three Contest
8 Dec 2015
© Noel Onat  Create an image from this poem.

Faith

Lay your sorrows down
Upon my healing altar,
Walk with me a while
And I’ll tell you of your worth,
So much more than you believe.
Form: Tanka


PARADOX LIMERICK

Mum had a chat with her daughter
And she urgently besought her
Not to be bedding
Before the wedding
Or she’d be late at the altar
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Clerihew Rubens

The famous Peter Paul Rubens
saw life through many a lens
Painter,diplomat scholar&also in business
so Altar pieces painted with largesse
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member The Sacrifice

A relationship's happiness, requires the sacrifice of egos, on the altar of love!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     11 February 2016
Form: Monoku

Thirst

Give a glass of water 
To those beyond the altar
Quenching their thirst
Listening to their curse
Giving them a voice
And freedom of choice.

Premium Member Tamas

The untended plant
withers away, leaf by leaf ~
a time of indifference.

Why do we falter,
poised at the divine altar,
blaming it on gravity?
Form: Sedoka

Slaughtered Innocents

slaughtered innocents
lambs on an evil altar
sacrificed to hate
carnage outrages the gods
spilt blood spells out remember

For Carolyn's 9-11 contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Stick Around For the Fireworks

Portents of the storms to come
       Ascends the altar drunk on rum

     Forgets his two-word line, 'I do'
       Says instead, 'Do I know you?'
Form: Couplet

Altar Nuts

The wedding was scheduled for three
But the groom took off for a pee
How the bride's bra strap
Got caught on my lap
Remains a complete mystery . . . .
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Gratitude

My soul an ever-burning fire on the altar of gratitude, offering Thee my Lord thanksgivings!







(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
      18 October 2016
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Testimony

They
hung him
on a tree-
this day set me
free

Crucifixion by  Mathew Grunewald Isenheim Altar piece
http://www.bible-archaeology.info/crucifixion.htm
Form: Bio

My Prayer

Down on my knees,
at the altar I fall,
hoping one day You will
answer them all.
Praying for him and
praying for her,asking you Lord
their heart do stir.
Form:

Premium Member Sacrifice Vi

Unless 

We sacrifice our ego on the altar of devotion, 

Love in our hearts can never blossom!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      20 June 2021
Form: Epigram

Flirting With the Words

Every word feels ecstatic
       when a poet court them
       with much resoect and affection
       before lead them in glory
       to the altar of poetry

The Proclamation of Fidelity

Wasting huge amounts of energy
not for the proclamation of fidelity
is to discard the vowes made on that altar...
when the sincere and amorous didn't look far.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Recipe for a Hero

Take a person, an ideal, and then stir.
Place on an altar, ready to anoint.
Be careful when you do - ideals can blur.  
Making heroes from men can disappoint.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Football is Religion

   Football's my neighborhood's religion
     its altar, the couch near the kitchen

   Worshiping the big-screen television
     every home in the subdivision
Form: Couplet

Premium Member A Beautiful Marrying Daugther-

Beautiful Darling, Being led by to the Altar Escorted by her honored, Father
4/13/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©

Pim -Dad

Dear Dad
The foods that I left
In the altar that I wish
You reborn to another life
With my prayer to Buddha
To you my fullest love
You live in my mind forever and always
© Natasa To  Create an image from this poem.
dad

Premium Member Courage

Courage,

Beloved child of love, 

Help me overcome fear

As to sacrifice my ego

On the altar of

Devotion!




© Demetrios Trifiatis
     9 January 2013
Form: Ode

Premium Member hit my knees

hit my knees couldn’t float hand swatted away should I have crawled my way to the altar ledge God smiles lifts me up brushes me off blesses me
god

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