Death Supper Poems

Just giving thanks 
Unto what God has done through Christ
The pure unleavened bread
With no yeast from the pharisies
The true word that gives life
Given as the...

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I sit at my family’s empty table
Life’s feast is almost gravely gone
I am the final guest left in this familial fable
All within my bloodline have...

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Peaceful Reading

I was writing. 
There was a beginning, 
a middle and an end. 
It was not happy or sad, 
but it was exciting, 
and interesting......

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Gethsemane in Every Breath
by Michael R. Burch
 
Did heaven ever seem so far? 
Remember?we are as You were, 

but all our lives, from birth to...

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Throughout the ages myriad eyes meet in convergent gaze,
drawn to Him who stilled the storm,
who, even now, in face of death, shows calm serenity.
What men...

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The future, like the wind, I cannot see
yet God has said my days He has ordained
my final breath remains a mystery
through veil of death, a...

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The Last Supper of Hope

Grief has exhausted itself
And pain has abandoned the heart;
Emptiness now lives where joy
Once called home.

Our streets have become cisterns
Of blood—death quenching...

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Old sam's last supper
The old jailer came around to Sam that night.
He asked Sam what he wanted for supper.
Old Sam said with a smile on...

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You said you were making chicken salad but you made crab salad instead.
You tricked me into eating shellfish and in a few minutes I'll be...

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All are sitting at the table eating, 
talking, laughing, Reminiscing, crying
but trying to make the best of it.
They listen, and hear a distant call.
Why must...

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The snake showed it to Eve.
Special, secret fruit
Adam persuaded to eat
Good and evil known
fig leaves cover us
meal of first
Sin!


from genesis 3:6...

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Pass the sauce 
show me the wine
Eden ahead
beyond this place of time

The plate is empty
No taste to placate
Serving only a small tab
A small piece of...

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