Get Your Premium Membership

Take Up Poems - Poems about Take Up


Take up thine armour
No principality shall stand, for God is ruler of this land. Lord help us root for all that's right, as we wrestle, each day and night. Humble thyself before the Lord, lay down your weapons at thy door. Put on the whole armour of God, stand firm in Christ, against all odds. Buckle thy belt upon thy waist, it shall be truth, that you...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, courage, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Eye Doctor Said I Should Take Up Boxing
Ocular hypertension and A couple of jabs here I read the letters on the chart and Threw in the towel But she was adamant The connotations Pay-per-view Las Vegas Ears bitten Jubba-jubba-jib-jab and A bathroom meteorologist I got the receptionist In a headlock I didn't kill Davey Moore But I made another appointment and Promised her the next time I was in I would be the...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse



Take Up a Book
Huck Finn East of Eden The Age of Chivalry Tibetan Book of the Dead Finis...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, books,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member You Have To Take Up Smoking
Father gave his son the talk before he attended prom. He gave him a severe lecture actually, many warnings. About how people get carried away, and they get pregnant. The boy was horrified, he had not even kissed his girl. This was 1967, of course, when morals were alive and well. Father said “and one last thing, son….you have to...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Take Up the Torch- Contest
Our world is darkened by hate. Each one of us can be a light in the midst of darkness. By spreading love instead of hate. Or peace instead of chaos. Or joy in the midst of much sorrow. Or doing things that unify and not divide. Or saying kind words instead of hateful insults. By doing this one will be letting their light shine, In the...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



A Hundred to Take Up the Stairs
I may not live for a hundred years, But a hundred of my poems will be there to allay your fears, And soften your tears, Enough to give voice to these hundred musings, As I make my way upstairs, To have my poems Checked out by past Masters, Who once stirred our souls, And won our hearts, With poems that allayed our...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, addiction, anniversary, beauty, blessing,
Form: Romanticism
Come Take Up Your Cross
As I sat within the Crowd Watching a play Jesus Resurrection I saw on the faces of many As tears came to my eyes Little girl next to me cried As my heart sank deeep inside As a man.. Who portrayed Jesus Was sold for some coins They whipped and beat him Tis ever so horrid They then took Nails driven in both His Hands and...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, inspirational, loveheart, heart, jesus,
Form: I do not know?
Take Up the Cross and Follow Me
I cry to Thee sweet Jesus for my burden is too great Take this cross away from me for I cannot bear the weight. My child the road to calvary I trod on painful and burning soles I bore the cross upon a back and fell beneath its load. I lay my life down my child so that you might live I left...

Continue reading...
Categories: take up, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things