Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

Christmas

02.12.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Santa in last years white beard smells
Coloured lights hang
Twinkles and patterns of
Community art,
Mall packed shopping
Endless Snoopy melodies,
Behind the retail assistant smiles
voids and hopes,
A time of year
emotions under the microscope,
Extremes magnified,
Hope and loss
gathered friends, holes of loneliness
Life and death
Stuffed stretched stomach,
credit card strangle.

And we live this commercial crazy time,
In the trapped moments,
Yet hoping for freedom fun released,

We are
Part of eternities entwined story
A birth, a baby, an adult, a forever love,
a God's plan.

Poem Tags
#baby, #child, #christian, #christmas, #cross, #hope, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #santa, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos, #xmas
Prompt
Christmas intertwines pain, hope and a baby.

Tags: christmas, xmas, hope, jesus, love

Can I?

30.09.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Can I
Have someone
see deep?
me,
The hidden real
The faked real?

Chameleon - thousand shades
Camouflage dirt
Concealing pain
Capable indifference
Covering smiles
Cracked mirror.

Mindside
I silent inner scream,
Sacrificed life
for inner dark uncomfortable.
Hidden life
in the midst of many.

Where can I trust?
Where can I belong?
Where can I sing?
Where can I be?

Prompt
Where can we turn? Who can we trust? What do we try to hide?
Poem Tags
#chameleon, #christian, #fake, #identity, #life, #poems, #poetry, #seeker, #spokenword,

Can I explores identity through Christian poetry video

God's Love

28.07.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

God's love
The shell discovered
on the beach
Now lying on a bench,
the floor,
Waiting on a couch,
Sitting on a shelf.

You
lift curved
spirals to your ear,
Hear
the call
Deep to deep,
A pull larger
than your self.

In your heart,
a sequence starts,
Insistent whispers
Universes of power

Love
helical expanses
Stronger than your pain
Deeper than life here,
An eternity
Compels, invites
Your response.

Gods love.

Tags: love, beach, shell, power, deep

Released

22.07.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Desert suns
sear the future,
Too hot
life stands on shifting sands
Too sharp
heat binds the lungs,
Yet a coldness somehow
cloys the heart,
Where can I be that life is found?
How will I do more than survive?

A mirage shimmers
Life just seems fake.

Cracked lips
cry out ,
"Where are you God?"

In faith
seeing nothing
I stumble another step
I scrabble over
endless tops,
the next sand ridge
pours through
my sun seared encrusted fingers
and another image appears
is the real - fake
or the fake - real?

I stumble, sliding
down rivers of sand time
towards the green,
metamorphosing tree outlines,
an oasis,
a whole world's tip
like an iceberg of life
from underneath
this scorched world I am in.

How did I not know
God was in the desert?
A deep pool, cool, powerful life
Underground
There all the time
Water, bubbling, gushing
Extreme.

Through eyes half blind
I see water flowing to the surface,
singing to my soul,
Surrounding, penetrating
so real,
green life afresh.

A call
to drink deep,
to know an intimacy
of Christ in me,
A depth of love.
Refreshed.
Released.

Tags: dry, spirit, desert, water, time

We Build

08.07.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

We build
the biggest machine
ever,
Powerful
electrical magnet
super chilled technology
kilometres of
tunnelled internal space
to collide the small unseen,
To discover:
theories
new realities
changing realities,
the God particle.

Where can we turn
that your hand
is not displayed?
Where your voice
is not the power that
holds our universe together?

We are space
in space
in expanding space
Sustained
by the Living God.

#christian,#collider, #hadron, #machines, #poems, #poetry, #power, #reality, #science, #space, #spokenword, #universe, #video

Technology and Science meet the God Particle Spoken Word

Channel Surfing

17.06.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Channel surfing…
All I can eat
All mine
Yet never me,
Entertainment worlds in a button,
All the colour, life and choice,
Yet lifeless, death in pixels
Nothing that means,
No connections,
Ads and advertising
Promises and pleasures,
High definition creations
Giving blurred zero self-images
Unreal masquerades of the real.

Can I
Leave the hate
Lose the forgery and fakes
Vacate negativity
Cut the crap
from my life,
Take any truth
I hear and see
and become different?

In a world without reason
feeding lies to sensations
where lies my lifeline?

Starting Thoughts: We live in a saturated media world that is sucking more and more reality from our identity and relationships, death by a thousand pixels in many ways. Is there an answer to the rising mental health and anxiety issues in our world?
Poem Topic Tags: #death, #hate, #identity, #lies, #life, #meaning, #media, #reality, #reallife, #reasons
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Media and truth, reality and meaning, where is our lifeline Spoken Word Poetry

Clock Watching

16.06.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

In risky conversation
my words fell
into your listening ears
and I uneasily started…

Clock watching
the minutes
seconds
of day
pass
slower
Little dribbles
of leaked time
as I waited...

Nothing happened
no great drama
no loss of me
no laughter at me...

I realised
that while I have given
a part of me
never shared
It adds
to this world,
rarely subtracts...

Why was I worried?

Starting Thoughts: Sometimes, accidentally or deliberately we share something we've never told anyone before. It becomes a moment when we wonder what we have just risked, will it backfire? Will connection be broken as we share the pain, the struggle, the failure that we have been holding?
Poem Topic Tags: #body, #clock, #confess, #conversations, #friendship, #identity, #risks, #secrets, #seeker, #sharing, #time
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Sharing our secrets in a risk Spoken Word Poem

Knife Moment

16.06.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Refugee from
dark kaleidoscopes
of noise machine demands,
I can't find a place,
Firm
where I find me,
Strong where my heart
is held in something more.
Random in a random world?
Nothing beyond
No reason
No soul,
In stark thought,
Naked reality,
Just white tree bones
of scattered self
on a firestormed landscape,

I laugh
slightly mad
Yet crystal clear
It is Time to snap,
Die,
Or find life.

Starting Thoughts: There come times in our lives where we know we are on the edge of an important decision, a moment that will change our future directions, hopes and dreams. We know the choice we should make and what it means if we don't but somehow it still seems so hard to make and year paradoxically easy.
Poem Topic Tags: #choices, #death, #decisions, #identity, #life, #pain, #personality, #souls
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

We come to moments of life decision poem spoken word risky!

Tags: gossip, lips, honour, righteous, confess

Door Rotation

16.06.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

In the black wandering of my life
I found myself standing in front
of a darkened door,
seemingly random
in life's midst.

Heart scare -
a knock suddenly sounded
from the other side
which scared the heck out of me,
I had thought it was just a door
but it was more
somehow connected
entwined deep in my heart.

Someone wanted in,
was out there
had taken the time
to call by,
And I almost opened it by mistake,
Come to think of it
What right does that door
have to be there?
I closed my eyes,
wished
opened eyelids
but the door
was still there,
and the knocking repeats
echoes to my soul.

Starting Thoughts: Jesus said, "Behold I stand at the door and knock." How open are we in our lives? Do we hear but essentially screen the "call" and tell Him to go away. Was there an opportunity that we have just missed?
Poem Topic Tags: #call, #conscience, #decision, #door, #faith, #jesus, #knock, #soul
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Making a decision about the knock of Jesus on the door - Spoken Word

Tags: door, knock, soul, call, open

Call

16.06.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

The phone rings
Repeated tones
buzzing your mind's corner
It rings...
How long are you
Waiting?
What will you
do now?

You are called,
It rings...
called to be a light
called to know
love and cleansing
from Jesus.
Like Twelve Disciples
changers of the world...
You?
In school
At work
Play and sport
University and polytechnic
At home, over the fence,
Peacemakers
calling justice
Action for new life
To shattered relationships,
To those picked-on
When will you pick-up?

Only in power
from God
Holy Spirit -
we await,
pick up, risk, step
Responding
to Your call,
Jesus
Your call,
People
Your call.

Starting Thoughts: Twelve people heard a call and the world was irrevocably changed as a result. If we hear the call changes will happen around us also, one person at a time.
Poem Topic Tags: #call, #disciples, #evangelism, #holyspirit, #jesus, #light, #mission, #power, #risk, #works
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Are you hearing the call from God? Spoken Word Poem.

Signpost People

06.06.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

I stand there
staring at their
identical smiles,
Laughing back
Fashion sleek
airbrushed exteriors
latest accessories
vogue beautiful people
same face,
in-crowd music
popular up-to-date values
carbon copied styled party,
They ask me to join
rent my space
be a billboard,
But I know they're
dressed to kill,
Sightless eyes
poster gaudy
but dark
grows in their minds.

Poem Tags
#beauty, #billboard, #facades, #fashion, #identity, #poems, #poetry, #popular, #seeker, #self, #signpost, #spokenword
Prompt
Billboards full of signpost people telling us how to live life.

Signpost People Spoken Word Poem. Beauty and facades.

Tags: perfection, facades, beauty, life, self

In the Son

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

I stand
half in sun half dark
a person in pieces
life on one side, death on the other
Caught on the wire
trapped indecision,
caught in events
indifferent yet aware
caught yet sensing freedom
wanting to hope, not willing to try
ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
The light speaks, calls,
a confidence touch,
light of the world,
love bathed rays
penetrate my heart
call to my mind
I rise
hope’s smile calls.

Shattered

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Shattered,
Numb holes
In our soul's fragments,
Pain etched across
Faces, TV
Replays of scenes
In Mixed media
In minds
In conversations,
Swirling emotions
Holding pain
Sharing pain,
Questions
With no answers
Voiced into
The not knowing

Hope birthed
Neighbours knocking on doors
Student army young muscles
Shifting disaster spade by wheelbarrow,
Water shared
Meals shared
Stories shared.

Anger birthed,
Knock on darkened door
Torch flashed in face
Surprising back pack
Dark clad looter
Runs With adrenalin
Black heart into blackness

Waiting birthed,
Return text
From family,
Call to say
Loved one safe,
Water, power, food
Sleep weary
Simple day to day life
Routines desired.

Possessions hammered,
Learning stuff
Doesn't matter
Compared to life.

In dust
Crumpled buildings
Flooded houses
Liquefaction hit
Alive is celebrated
On scales
Grim to thankful
Stunned to action.

Others, randomly ok
Feel guilty spared
Unsure.

God we cry
Cry

A blink of time
In Your hands,
We trust
Now and tomorrow
To God,
Who knew shattered,
Had close family
Who understands human
Knew death
New life in resurrection power.

God we hope
Deeper into You.

Seen

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

I saw you
a shadow part
of the crowd,
You’ve come again
to hear the words,
feel friendship,
something more,
Dying at the crossroad
yet fascinated,
that God’s spirit speaks.
Your crystal moment glimpse
is of living,
but this life scares,
so you embrace
freedoms
that generate chains.
“Let the dead bury the dead!”
You see...
almost,
but camouflage and dark glasses
are your world.

Tags: crowd, decisions, meaning

Milk Spilt

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Just Born
Exciting New birth
closeness to breast,
milk sustaining,
love relationship of touch,
tender words
Feeding on the tone of voice, words,
the hugs,
Not sure how to communicate needs
Sometimes just crying, unformed sounds,
Listening to the story, seeing the pictures
through learning eyes

Maturing
Milk part of the past,
Although a glass,
Every now and then, is good.
Feeding
in the Word,
Open to questions,
Knowing full reassurance of faith,
Solid, in honest
love with God,
Given in a daily walk.

Milk Delivery
Open the door
to today’s living, your world,
backpack slung over shoulder
ready with stored milk cartoons,
Searching, lead to
another new birth.

Indestructable

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

My life has a dream,
snatches seen through grime.
hope's beginning
given love complete
helpless born
healing, challenging, friend
dark death cross
times claw suspended,
leapt to life,
defeated sin,
immortal payment
for you.

Jesus Indestructible
Lord,
power forever,
He holds
final key
eternities pathway
hope complete.

Tags: cross, death, jesus, hope, key

Justice

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Killed in a moments
inaction,
slow response to hurt inflicted.
the bully unchallenged
the weak who we pass by
the laughter of gossip...
Lighten up, get a life,
does it really make a difference?
If tomorrow you were...
Afghan... 3 year old gang- raped
in a country where women fear the daily road
OR Chinese grandmother beaten,
taken away “re-educated”
for applying for a legitimate protest card…

Do you not know what you have?
How precious justice is?
In your country, based on Christian history
A sense of justice strong.

So don’t ignore,
turn your back on the wrong
Hear the voice of the Spirit
The challenge of taking the cross
Respond to God’s love
Reach out, take action

Not frozen in the challenge’s headlights
But a hedgehog with tyre deflating prickles!

Tags: action, justice, jesus, hope, key

Extremes

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Heaven's glory
to earths pain,
love's closeness
to cross death loneliness,
Bright fullness of spirit
to greyness and questions,
Complexity surrounded
Simplicity discovered,
Wonderful paradoxes
both God and me.

In the extremes
Gods shadow of humility
touches my spirit,
my heart captivated in
a grace
encounter with God,
helping me to see
who I am.

loved
real
me.

Tags: paradoxes, love, real, identity, grace

Holes

02.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Christian |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

An absence of something
a place of nothing
lonely space
the eyes focus point
the hearts waiting beat.

Holes
the bullets trace
deaths moment
an absence of life

Holes
Hands, feet and side
Pierced innocence
Forgiveness flowed
Pure sacrifice

Holes

Tags: holes, cross, easter, meaning, sacrafice

The Passion

01.04.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

The passion
One week
in history,
Time shortens itself
Focuses
on life
Living hope,
Death
Living hope,
Celebration
Living hope,
Struggles
Living hope,
Just seven days
changing
four seasons in one week,
Ending with
Life Power over death,
Fears of worst death
shattered with Pure light,
Death destroyed by invincible
courageous love.

Easter
One week in history
A thousand years collapsed to a day,
One week holding
eternal futures for you.

Easter the fiesta!
Christ's freedom.

#celebration, #christian, #cross, #easter, #freedom, #hope, #jesus, #light, #passion, #poem, #poetry, #resurrection, #spokenword, #time, #video

The crowds line the streets to celebrate for Passion Week. Poem

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