Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

God of Echoes

22.12.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Above clouding noise
Above erasing passions
Above tides of bleak tiredness
in the midst of daily routines
In dark nights of the soul,
the God of life echoes
a call
reverberating again and again
A kick beat into my life
penetrating extreme sound
Shaking my inner soul
Creating a transparent heart
before the Creator God.

Awareness arises
I have nothing
standing
crystal-clear before Christ’s journey
crystal-clear in front of the cross
Before this love
Poured down, poured out,
overflowing, deep beyond deep
I stop, talk to God
Press pause...
Press pause...

And now in the silence
immersed between the echoes
a silence stretching eternity
into its depths,
holy love intertwines
profound closeness, meaning
questions and realities
into the space,

How can I not smile in this love?
How can I not cry in this love?
How can I not wonder in this love?
How can I not be in this love?
How can I not find peace in this love?
How can I respond in worship to this love?
My God, my King.

Starting Thoughts: In the noise and routines of life, the business, can we press pause… and rest in the silence immersed between the echoes and listen, become aware of God's love.
Poem Topic Tags: #business, #cross, #echo, #echoes, #love, #pause, #silence, #soul, #sounds, #transparent, #wonder, #worship
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silence_worship_closeness_transparency_before_God

Tags: silence, waiting, noise, love, closeness

Jared and Jessica

05.12.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Can’t help falling in love
with an eye fiesta
of variegated sea blues to green lawn
From Aqua bay to
Green shades native forest
Tui notes cascade above
white water stream,
Grey clouds lace mountain ridges
releasing showers onto
the dress up colours of wedding guests
and umbrellas fetched from cars.

Then a pause in the rainy weather
Moisture trickles joy in eyes
of the bow tie groom
as the bride glides on father’s arm
down the grassy isle,
Ceremony words
Lace the air
Weaving God’s life
Prayer and communion
Laughter with love
Friends and family in tune
with the outdoor celebration,
A stillness descends
wind pauses holding breath
and sun warms our backs
Rings with pledges and loyalty
exchanged
Jared and Jessica
Heart and song
Can’t help falling in love
with you

Starting Thoughts: A wedding of a great pair of friends. Held in one of the bays in Akaroa, Christchurch.
Poem Topic Tags: #wedding, #ceremony, #church, #friends, #love, #vows, #relationships
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

marriage and love, ceremony on Banks Peninsula

Tags: kites, grandchildren, spirit, wind, fun

Renewed

27.09.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

The mantle
has been placed
on your life,
the cloak of destiny
and revelation,
the vision of
what God has for you,
the vision of how God sees
and deeply loves you
His future dreams and hopes
Leading Your mind, will, soul
Layers to be revealed
affirming your identity.

So
Let go of the wounds
let go of the sins
embrace vulnerable,
Seek counsel
for the journey
in the disappointment, grief, fear
in the tiredness, stress and tests
Seek healing,
live a transforming
beautiful life
by taking the next step
faithful and free again.

For God
Loves you too much
to keep you small
You are now
going to grow
through process and promise
Renewed thoughts of
life and destiny intertwined
You will Stand
in your place
Declaring and decreeing
change in Christ
This is our adventure
in the kingdom...

‘He waka eke noa’
A canoe which we are all in
with no exception

Starting Thoughts: A video spoken word poem on encouraging us to step into renewal, vision and identity and letting go of those things that hinder us.
Bible Verses:
Poem Topic Tags: #adventure, #destiny, #healing, #identity, #journey, #love, #reality, #revelation, #stand, #vision, #wounds
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

No Wind Kite

16.07.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Dusk stole
across the park grass
Thinning behind winter tree branches
yellow orange striped candy colours
sunset lowering on the horizon,
still and crisp air
resting on park and playground
Friend’s children climbing rope
tetrahedron
Shouts to Dad
This is a spaceship, a mountain
a dream...

As we clambered down
hit the swing for one last time,
For the fifteenth repeat
I was asked, “Can we fly the kite?”
I glanced to the zipped backpack
Leaning against park picnic bench
With a rainbow skin and spars
poking from the top.

I pointed out the lack of wind
No moving branches
no twitch of twigs
Distracted them with flying science
about helicopters and blades
Birds and wings
Even pointed out starlings perched
dark blobs in naked branches,
And then suddenly
I realised
if the children run
dragging the kite to height - win, win
The kite will fly - sort of
- sort of fun
The boys will become more tired...

How often do we think
the wind is not there?

Run with the kite!

Starting Thoughts: Flying (or not) a kite with the grandchildren leads to thinking about how we encounter the Holy Spirit.
Poem Topic Tags: #grandchildren, #hope, #kites, #perseverance, #spirit, #window,
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Flying kites leads with my grandchildren leads to a HOly Spirit reflection

Tags: kites, grandchildren, spirit, wind, fun

Devonport Sunshine

13.07.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Sights of Devonport
Glinting waves
curling around
into bays
washing into harbour walls.

Sounds of Devonport
The brother running footsteps
from arcade mall mouth
Chased by calling sister
Child in arms starts singing
a song of life
Hundreds of children calls
From seaside playground
far enough away to reduce
to leaking balloons of fun and adventure
Two friends on coffee expedition
friendship conversation bubble
Punctuated by seagulls
indignant squawks
Car engines purring
Traffic voices
Welcomes called by shop owners
And a thousand unheard voices of history.

Starting Thoughts: A wonderful sunny day in Wellington, New Zealand. At the port, shopping in Devonport. Decided to capture some sights and sounds.
Poem Topic Tags: #ambience, #children, #city, #daily, #history, #holiday, #life, #mall, #newzealand, #voices, #wellington
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

A poem on the ambiance of Devonport in Wellington, New Zealand

Pentecost

07.06.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

One hundred and twenty
Personalities waiting
Fifty days after Easter,
could have been anywhere
in a city,
an upstairs crowd of disciples
a temple
in a room,
One hundred and twenty
Minds counted
backwards over ten long days,
a waiting cluster
of fear, praise, hope, faith, prayer
minds and hearts expanding
and contracting their emotions,
Lungs expanding
and contracting on-hold breaths,
And a second ticked by
Maybe a same moment repeated
At the end of the second
time changed
ordinary phased into extraordinary
God moved
and energy danced,
Overpowering wind roared
a sound reverberating
beyond the building
Shaking those in the room
And history repeated
The Pillar of fire
appeared in the room
Awe danced in the Retina reflections
of the disciples as they looked
the fiery column Separated
into Tongues of fire
God’s glory fire
Poured over each one
Poured inward
engulfing
each person present
filling them top to bottom,
encounters exploded within
sparked by the fire of God,
Power for a people to shine
witnesses, living testimonies
empowered
inside and out
ignited with love,
Equipped for mission,
Known by Jesus
now moving
to make Jesus known.

There is something wonderful
about the power of God
Will you go to the room?
Will you pray?
Will you dream?
Will you ask?
Will you open?

Harare mai, Wairua Tapu. (Welcome Holy Spirit)

Starting Thoughts: A video spoken word poem on Pentecost. The Disciples were in a room aware that they were waiting for something to happen, following the crucifixion, resurrection and accession of Jesus. The Holy Spirit -the Helper - was about to pay them a visit.
Bible Verses: John 12:23-24 , Acts 1: 8-11
Poem Topic Tags: #celebration, #church, #disciples, #fire, #glory, #holyspirit, #mission, #pentecost, #pillar, #tongues
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Lockdown Freedom

07.06.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Hello again old outside world - changed forever world
Goodbye unchanging, house locked inside routines
Hello bike riding, kite flying, sunshine swimming
Goodbye book reading curled up sun-soaked window seating
Hello takeaway Thai - fast food taste temptress
Goodbye homemade baking sweetness expanding waistline
Hello grandchild; toy floor explosion and smiling hugs
Goodbye everyday closeness with my wonderful wife.

Starting Thoughts: A poem in the form of Hello Goodbye for processing emotions around a theme. In this case the Covid 19 Lockdown release, from shut in to freedom?
Poem Topic Tags: #change, #covid19, #food, #freedom, #grandchild, #lockdown, #sport, #unchanging, #virus
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Know It

07.06.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Peace that flows inside out
Cascading into my heart
A Love that creates vulnerability
Sees my flawless
beyond my flaws,
A Love with the unending
persistent
effervescent flow
of heaven,
intimate Love from an
lover who creates destiny,

I am a child of God
I Know it!
I Love it!
I Live it!

What was the reason
you were made?

Starting Thoughts: The love that sees us as flawless, that goes beyond forgiving to see us reborn!
Poem Topic Tags: #child, #destiny, #identity, #intimacy, #love, #peace, #reasons
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Spoken Word Poetry on the Love that cascades from God and motivates us

Tags: love, flaws, destiny, child, identity

Lines of the Word

07.06.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Descended word born learner youth
seeker heartfelt powerful revealed celebration passion
friend healer storyteller confronter
prophet betrayed rejected love death
risen grace completed eternal

Starting Thoughts: If we could string together lines of single words to describe Jesus and his purpose on Earth, what would you add to these?
Poem Topic Tags: #christ, #history, #jesus, #life, #names, #timeline, #word, #words,
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Words to describe the timeof Jesus on Earth

Tags: love, healer, grace, risen, jesus

Life's Extremes

11.05.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Sad salt water tears
blues from a Fish tanked death,
Sunshine feet running enjoyment
flying kite swooping in windy sky,
Grumpy red thin lips
favourite takeaway shop closed,
Lazy warm sunlight Sunday
Window seat couch potato reading;
Life’s Extremes.

Starting Thoughts: A bit of fun with Bitmoji's and Feelings.
Poem Topic Tags: #anger, #bitmoji, #death, #emotions, #feelings, #kites, #reading, #tired
Posting Tags: #edchat, #schools, #teaching, #lrnchat, #TT , #GlobalEd, #edtech, #elearning, #mlearning, #edapp, #artist, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife,

LIfe Extremes Bitmoji poetry spoken words for children, kids, pupils

Tags: bitmoji, feelings, Kids, fun

Stop

10.05.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Stop
Be still
Be open
Know…

Know love
Know the One above
Know I am
Know God is God

Stop
Surrender
Rest
In Expectation…

Know Power
Know the Ancient One
Know the Mighty Voice
Know the whisper of faith

God will be God!

Starting Thoughts: Do we need to STOP, to catch a moment where our hearts and minds slow giving time for our spirits, our souls, to catch up.
Poem Topic Tags: #faith, #iam, #peace, #rest, #soul, #spirit, #surrendered
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Spoken word poem on finding stillness and knowing our amazing God

Tags: quiettime, surrender, peace, god

Fit the Dreams

05.05.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

The sly affections of
the dreams
inside my head
whispering tender thoughts
dripping poison searing
entertaining ways
of who I am or could be
soaking mind deep,
I am
floating in my reflections
disconnected to the world
wandering around signposts to hopes
carnival streets of colour confusions
false fun and cheering crowds
noise and business
montage media
playing my life,
suspended between worlds
of one moment
rosy cheeked and apple pie
next time
depression and death dealing,
feelings without reason,
yesterday’s lies
blind to what I tell them today,
yesterday’s mistakes
seemingly unforgiven again
stuck in a world
made in my head
created by me.

Will I hear the whisper in the wind?

Starting Thoughts: Mental health involves sharing, being vulnerable, being present. Knowing that we are precious and truly loved in God's eyes and that we don't need to 'perform' for or to others.
Poem Topic Tags: #death, #depression, #false, #hope, #lies, #masks, #mentalhealth, #mind, #mistakes, #psychology, #unforgiven, #wellbeing, #whisper
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Spoken Word Poetry on drepression and the thoughts in our heads

Extinction

05.05.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Multiply words
to cover your faults
to harden your mask
to smother your feelings,
maths extinction.

Starting Thoughts: Mental health involves sharing, being vulnerable, being present.
Poem Topic Tags: #caring, #feelings, #hardenup, #masks, #mentalhealth
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Mental health and feelings poem - spoken word

Beacon

27.04.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Your light shines
cutting worlds of grey
a beacon
on a rocky headland
Lifting hope
in stormy seas
a promise of warmth
a promise of home
a promise of new life
Light of the world
cutting the black fog,

Our eternal guide.

Starting Thoughts: The light of the world shines through the fog, cutting a reality into our lives and providing a way home.
Poem Topic Tags: #guide, #home, #light, #lighthouse, #reality, #storms, #world
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Spoken Word Poetry Jesus Light of the World

Slippery Hope

26.04.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Hope slippery like
Soap on a rope
dissolving
disappearing down
the sucking plug hole,
I summon hope
but it slips away into
thin darkness,
I pull Hope up
Clinging to it
and it circles
the drain again
disappearing tendrils of me
self immolation drip by drip
despair that focuses on despair
Pain that focuses on pain.

From distress depths
deep in the sewer
I look up, seeing

a descending anchor of hope
fastened to heaven's mercy seat
Strong in God’s love
Secure in the cornerstone
Fastened to the rock

This anchor
emerges through the
bleak suffocation above
Shining like a star
A beacon I can choose
A saviour I can choose,

Now within me
Hope rising
Heart burning
on the inside
I discover
Hope cannot be a feeling
it is a person,
Anticipation in the blackness
Passion igniting
as I see this person, Jesus
the sure hope
Foundation of faith
Jesus the hope of Glory
Jesus glories’ hope in us.

I stand on
the anchor
secured, home
Darkness surrounds
but somehow I’m
in a different place
Same time
Different place -
Hope full.

Starting Thoughts: How solid is hope? If our future hope relies on money or jobs or even others will we always have a trustworthy hope? Is it possible that only God can be the sustainer of hope?
Poem Topic Tags: #anchor, #darkness, #despair, #hope, #love, #foundation, #rock, #saviour, #security
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Response

24.04.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Early dawn’s golden light
seeps through Galilee hills
night's shadows washing
colour into bushes,
Lake washes
gentle to the white stoned shore,
morning embers
dance red on cloud's edges,
morning embers
glow red
in the fire
surrounded by stones,
fish cooking,
disciples relaxing,
in wonderment of
encountering Jesus.

"Peter, Come walk with me”
Jesus unlimbers
from the fire companionship
walking with Peter
across the beach
stones and sand
into a personal experience
deep and tough,
Jesus stops
looking into Peter’s eyes
lifting his hand to Peter's shoulder
asking the past into Peter’s mind

“Do you love me?”
“Do you love me?”
“Do you love me?”

and years of discipleship
three cock crows
hiding in the dark
fears of past weeks
joy of the last minutes
with Jesus lakeside;
All collapse swirling in Peter’s mind.

And in dawn’s warmth
the beach pebbles smile
and turn their faces
to the sun,
even they cry out ‘God',
and Peter’s soul
Softens, releases
the same chord
of love in his heart,
a love covering all times
a love permeating all of him
soaking passion into Peter’s mind,

“Jesus, you know I love you."

Starting Thoughts: From betrayal to love, from darkness to sunrise, from feeling a failure to becoming a rock that faith will spread and be built on. Peter responds to the question on the shore of Lake Galillee.
Poem Topic Tags: #breakfast, #disciples, #faith, #fishing, #gallilee, #lake, #love, #passion, #peter
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

The love question and response in Spoken Word form of Peter and Jesus by Lake Galilee

Tags: love, flaws, destiny, child, identity

Heartbeat Questions

11.04.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

From unnatural darkness
in the midst of loss and grief
from hell's silence came a heartbeat
light shattered dark into new belief

Born again in resurrection
Jesus simply stepped through the grave
and walked in surrounding gardens
the risen Saviour alive to save

In a whisper of salvation
Christ approached Mary near the tomb
Eyes not seeing her saviour
His words forever changed her gloom.

In the doubts of disciples meeting
In the fear and in the pain
Jesus appeared to show all
God’s kingdom would now reign.

From unnatural darkness
in a world of hurt and questions
Jesus now also asks us
can my power bring new directions?

Starting Thoughts: Simple moments in a garden against a backdrop of the powerful resurrection. Often we don't hear God's voice or recognise him in our life as we are focused on grief, pain, expectations of what God should be doing or can't do - and then He meets us!
Poem Topic Tags: #celebration, #cross, #easter, #grief, #hell, #human, #loss, #reality, #redeemed, #resurrection, #risen, #sunday, #sunrise
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Easter- Jesus risen appears to Mary, to the disciples

Between

11.04.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Standing the darkness
Caught in between
Sacrifice and victory
Living now in the unseen.

Knowing grief - brokenness
Loss and confusion
Saturday’s waiting time
Awareness of being human.

Resurrection Sunday ahead
Joy and celebration
Right now stalled life
Hope seems just illusion.

Trapped in cloying dark
Time spinning to atrophy
Entangled dusk, joyful sunrise
My place of reality.

Jesus survived the same
Three Days of hell’s extremes
Then resurrection changed the game
Death to life, He redeems!

Starting Thoughts: The time between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday seems to ebb in flow a different reality that seems closer to human life. A mix of grief and wonderment, pain and celebration, waiting and ready to move on.
Poem Topic Tags: #celebration, #cross, #easter, #goodfriday, #grief, #hell, #human, #loss, #reality, #redeemed, #resurrection, #sunday, #sunrise
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

A poem reminding of us of the important moment between Good Friday and resurrection Sunday

Awareness

02.04.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

stillness, holding in the moment
awaiting the voice of breaking dawn
feeling the breath of welcome
warm and full of a thousand hugs,
resting
in breath with breath
pausing
in the slowing of time
waiting
in the slowing of thoughts
lingering
in the smile from God
remaining, holding
in the love of grace

come and rest
untie the straps, let your burden fall
rise
and drift on the quiet breeze
with a thousand seeds
floating hopes living in eternity
knowing God's love in reality

live.

Bible Verses: 1 Kings 19: 11-13, Acts 17: 28, Psalm 27: 14, Psalm 139:7, Psalm 32: 7, Exodus 33: 14, John 1: 4, John 14:16, Ephesians 4: 6, Habakkuk 2: 20, Psalm 46: 10
Starting Thoughts: Finding a true awareness of God, being still in His presence, soaking in His love.
Poem Topic Tags: #burdens, #grace, #love, #meditation, #presence, #quiet, #quiettime, #rest, #slowing, #stillness, #time
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Awareness of the Spirit, of God and enjoying His presence. Spoken word poetry

Window Pane

30.03.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Rain travels
trickling down
window pathways
gravity pulling my thoughts
deeper into my mind,
images of media, news,
hopes and blues
drop into a dark whirlpool.

I look out further...
Beyond the pane
autumn trees
poke skyward,
each trembling leaf a
colour celebration
of life from death.

Life from death…
reminds me of Jesus
explosion of life in darkness

I feel warm inside.

Starting Thoughts: Just looking out the window on a rainy morning, covid 19 stalking the world, and Autumn painting its colours.
Poem Topic Tags: #autumn, #covid19, #cross, #death, #home, #life, #mind, #pain, #rain, #resurrection, #warmth
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Death and life in Autumn Spoken Word Poem

Tags: rain, autumn, weather, covid19, warmth

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