Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

Transparent Life

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Transparent
Life alive
Water's crystal essence
is amazing!
Our planet dot spins
in a vast dry galaxy
Yet
water the same
today
on Earth
as yesterday’s
dinosaurs drank.

As we drink,
Water so vital
to life's fabric
we wonder
the beginning... God
Vital to life's fabric
Unchangeable
Sustaining,
And then in Time’s flow...Christ
Living water
Surface walker
Thirst shaker

And then the promise...
“You
Will never thirst again.”

#christian, #creation, #life, #poems, #poetry, #promises, #spokenword, #thirst, #videos, #water

Creation celebrated in water - Christian Spoken word video

Tags: water, christ, thirst, thirst, life

Threads of Time

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Threads of time
Seconds of disaster
Eternity of pain

Then God walked
Entered the days, years
Of a planet micro spinning
In universe beyond vast ages

He loved deep
He knows you deep
His immense spirit
Calls you deep

Baby to man
Jesus Walked
He spoke
I am the Truth
I am the Way
I am the Life

Threads of time
Seconds of hope
Eternity of joy
Extreme Forever.

#christian, #future, #jesus, #life, #poem, #poetry, #time, #truth, #way #spokenword

Tags: truth, time, life, jesus, way

Trying to Say

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

A haunting realness
trapped in me,
mind encapsulated,
A shell curled
buried on the beach,
life hidden
lonely,
crashing waves around
non-person in a crowd
quietness in the rage
gems in the mud.

I could speak,
there's something there,
a hidden seed thought
a truth
a reality,
I open my lips
and say something else...

Lying words on
dreams of
inner truth.

Prompt
How hard is it to speak the truth? We want to speak the reality, instead we tell the lie.
Poem Tags
#buried, #christian, #dreams, #identity, #lies, #lying, #poems, #poetry, #seeds, #seeker, #speak, #spokenword, #truth,

The lies we tell when we want to tell truth.

Tags: lies, truth, lips, mind, lying

Waiting Seed

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

I lie in the world
winter paused
Snow fell
cold chill
covered me.

Waiting for the Son
to return.

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Bible Verses
Isaiah 40:31b
See also: Psalm 27:14
Prompt
How frozen, how stopped, how are we just waiting..
Poem Tags
#christian, #waiting, #dreams, #life, #memories, #snow, #poem, #poetry, #reallife, #seeker, #spokenword, #cold, #life, #identity,

Covered in snow - waiting for God Spoken-Word

Tags: waiting, jesus, reallife, cold

Anticipation

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Christmas
Anticipation,
Beginning of hope...
Drowned in the voices,
ad confused noise
Sarcasm screams
and steals,
Killing the thinking
curious
questions lost.

No different today
to the first time,
Cold power feeling threatened,
iron fist desperately speaking
commands of death,
Babies killed,
A fearful human king
trying to kill the true king.

Doubters emerged,
frozen religious thinking
denying the king
His claims on their life,
Liars advertising
Their version of truth 101.

Jesus,
Human frailty embraced
as a baby,
He stands
perfect in time
Alive after death,
He saves
Hopeless and hopeful
Anyone who comes.

Maybe that's why
Jesus said, "Come as a child."
Before those mind manipulations,
before games acted
before playmaking,
Just come as you are,
who you are
No matter where
you are from,
Where you sit.

The birth of hope
Alive after sacrifice
Love extreme
loves you
embraces you
knows you
sees you.

Poem Tags
#baby, #child, #christian, #christmas, #cross, #hope, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #santa, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos, #xmas
Prompt
Christmas combines death of the innocents with a baby in a manger. How will you complete your Christmas?

Anticipation of Christmas Poetry Spoken Word Video

Tags: christmas, gifts, hope, jesus, love

Winter Friendship

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Eyes pulled through
partially opaque
gravity defying
droplets on glass,
to wind bent trees
slashed by fingers
of penetrating rain,
Darkness fogs
the window
that resolutely
shuts off the wintery blast,
battle sounds of
rattled metal roof rain.

Inside
time suspends,
lights dimmed to
unwind level,
music tiptoes softly
from the playlist,
heat pump gurgles
drifting new heat
into the chattering,
relaxing gathering,
one pair couch facing,
leaning towards
talking intently
a third drops cautiously near
sitting on the floor
and is accepted
with body angle changes,
men’s group standing
shoulder conversation circle
sharing laughter,
another on the window seat
temporarily withdrawn
mobile text conversation
pulling her between
the unseen and seen
the away and the now,
nibble creators
bustle in bright kitchen
chattering preparations.

Friends gathered,
a mix of memories
coalescing into the moment,
a chameleon atmosphere of
moods, talk, thoughts
intermingle, rise and fall.

I stretch my
satisfied cat soul,
in lazy camaraderie warmth.

Tags: winter, friendship, rain, clouds, party

Seagull

10.01.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Pupils |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Freedom symbol
soaring wings

Annoying in duckpond
snatching bread from ducks

Hammerdrill screech
killing positive thought

Jaunty red beak
Clean white dress feathers

Filth grubber
mounded refuse tip

Flocks wheeling
strength in numbers

Beady eye drama
Watching opportunity

Bird
Human

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The Point

20.12.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

What was the point?
Cute lambs and shepherds
twinkling stars,
Presents and smiles,
straw and happy baby,
Smiling parents.
Underneath...
A king desperate for power
Fear of a baby
death of innocents
Fleeing parents,
A Christmas beginning.

Today,
Families gathering
presents exchanged
Hugs and togetherness
Celebration,
Underneath...
Crowded rushed malls
Sweating Santa,
Myriad sales
Glitter commercials,
Stress and loneliness
Clarity of pain and anger,
Countries war-torn
Worn and lost.

Underneath...
Anchored in and beyond time
God's love...
Sent in risk
Sent to bring back,
Sent to speak,
To live full; laugh, struggle,
To go carrying the cross
Carrying our pain, sin, death
For the joy
set before him,
Darkness and sameness
Triumph of evil.

Underneath... The Point

Resurrection power
Death and sin defeated,
Love conquered
Final victory,
Reborn again
Lives eternally changed.

Christmas complete.

Poem Tags
#baby, #child, #christian, #christmas, #cross, #hope, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #santa, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos, #xmas
Prompt
Christmas combines death of the innocents with a baby in a manger. Where are you in the mix of families, xmas, loneliness, love?

Chrisitna Poetry Spoken Word Videos Christmas

Tags: christmas, gifts, hope, jesus, love

Ever Love

30.08.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Every moment
Every step,
Closer than your heart beat
a You shadow
twinned to your soul,
A knowledge deeper
than you know yourself,
From the same creator spirit
that formed galaxies and atoms,
A love celebration
that laughed, danced,
sang the song spinning
stars, universes into space,
From that tender power,
a God spark,
puzzle piece,
A fire
waiting alive in you.
In every spirit molecule of your whole
a call to your soul, Spirit deep,
to close relationship,
A call to home -
to pain,
to questions
to freedom
to change
to purpose
to adventure...

In Christ's ever love
You will never
be the same.

Tags: spirit, god, love, mystery, soul

Be Truth

09.08.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Truth moved
into the neighbourhood
Sent to relate,
A mission
In fragmented, scattered lives
In the uncaring, indifferent.

Opening
New beginnings,
Restoration of lives
to God
to others,
Doing from being
centered in Christ,
Followers deepened in faith.

Sharing love, hope, questions,
laughter, pain, dreams.

There is so much more,
Reach for it.
Be the truth.

Starting Thoughts: How do we keep our love on and make a choice to connect with neighbours? In a world retreating from community and relationships we can be radical, show radical to others around us.
Poem Topic Tags: #community, #connected, #evangelism, #honour, #local, #love, #mission, #neighbourhood, #reallife, #sharing, #truth
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

We connectto to others on our community to restore and bring deeper relationships poem spoken word.

Rose Coloured

27.07.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Memories’ eye
opens kaleidoscope colours
labelled friend, gorgeous woman.

A colour burst
surrounded by intertwined roses
radiating grace, closeness
my love
my Rose.

Yellow diamonds spiral
iris widening past moments of
humour, the so positive lady
with hard edges
of amazing toughness, perseverance.

Blue circles
the eyes pool depth
I journey with,
Enjoy looking into,
enjoy skipping stones
of reaction over.

Eyes now framed, bigger,
in rimmed glasses
for our mutual reading,
iPad screens,
comfortable couch silence
together independence.
I watch you
laugh, scroll, like and comment
and just enjoy the social you.

Rose,
Colour mixes of
passion, faith, directness and quick smiles
Words in Wisdom’s season
Amazing Mother
Incredible daughter
Beautiful wife.

You are my;
time spanning kaleidoscope poem
memories eye
hearts embrace.

Starting Thoughts:
A poem for the lady I have journeyed with over many years. White is made of many colours, just as Rose has many amazing attributes, gifts, skills and strengths. She has a wonderful personality - great growing old with her. Posted for 60th anniversary.
Poem Topic Tags: celebration, colours, family, friend, friendship, heart, love, marriage, personal, seeker, time, wife
Posting Tags: #artist, #christ, #christian, #church, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Heart Search

26.07.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Centered in the heart
of all,
Desires for love,
Of purpose.

Where are the solutions?
in a world of answers
saturation media
social connections
Somehow fragility exists.

More questions grow.

Why the desire:
to search?
to speak?
to hold?
to cause pain?
to withdraw?

Why the driven:
looking beyond,
seeking different,
the now,
the present,
the past.

Somewhere simple
we are drawn to
another rhythm.

Starter Thoughts: Why do we seek, ask questions? Why bother thinking or trying not to think about God?
Poetry Topic Tags: #answers, #christian, #love, #media, #pain, #poems, #poetry, #purpose, #questions, #seeker, #spokenword, #videos

Why do we search and desire more. Spoken word Christian poem

Human Nature

19.07.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Human nature
Scars and beauty,
Seeping decay
Shadows across Earth's face
Living to rescue one moment
Suicide bomb hate the next.

Life suffers:
In death, luxury, instant world,
focus on the me,
Fear, Pain
I am right!

But there was a suffering
A history eternity moment
Connecting
Earth to life,
Us to pure love
Us to the judge,
to hope
to freedom.
Us to God.
A faith to live for,
Beyond the Earth
Beyond an expanding universe
Beyond everyday, today and tomorrow.

Live this life
Love the rescue
of your soul.

Finding the Spark

12.07.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

At the core,
We know
sustaining our perfect
me skin
is impossible.

Building moments
Painting the flesh,
Self saturated, we try.
Hostile to outside
life and freedom,
We paint ourselves
into corners,
Pain traps.
Shattered meaning.

In being only self,
We lose self.

"But I am good,"
we cry from the corner,
Just echoes
of darkness
call back
"What is good
good, good, anyway?"
Ashes to ashes,
Dust.
In a lost world
Could there be more?

It seems there...
in a child's hug,
care of a friend,
in stars, mountain tops,
a bud drawing life
in Spring's new kiss.

Threads of a reality.

In a lost world
Could there be more?

Someone who knows me
sees me,
sees through me,
and yet loves me
holds me,
is prepared to die for me,

God sparks.

Poem Tags
#christian, #god, #good, #lost, #pain, #perfection, #poems, #poetry, #reallife, #seeker, #self, #spokenword
Prompt
How do we paint ourselves into so many self corners? Hidden pains.

Finding the Spark, finding meaning. Spoken Word Poem

Tags: perfection, facades, beauty, life, self

Run the Road

07.07.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Walking up the Road
Leaving behind,
Threading out the darkness,
Ghost chains,
Footsteps away
from
a life of drowning in
unintended consequences,
Shit stuff,
Not so unintended consequences.

Obeying a call,
To change
Embrace the light,
To accept a Saviour,
Calm, hope and fear
centered in me now
as I journey
finding the Way.

A Father's heartbeat
Rhythm of the road,
Love's call,
Forgiveness' flow
Freedom's laughter
His welcome hug.

Choosing again
In purpose
I. Walk.
I. Run.

Check out the story of the Prodigal Son.

My Spirit

06.06.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

My spirit
Extol
Ever praise
The One
Highest above,
You are
The Great I Am,
Beyond time,
Jesus
Adored Lord,
Worthy
Complete
Wholeness and Truth,
I worship You
In the hardness of the cross
In the love of the cross
In the joy of the cross
In the power of the cross
In the moment of the cross.
Here and now

I worship you
Here and now.

Starting Thoughts: The Cross is a display of the character and personality of God, a God willing to love in both the hard and gentle, in sacrifice and power.
Poem Topic Tags: #cross, #holyspirit, #iam, #joyful, #love, #power, #praise, #spirit, #timeless, #worship
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Spoken word poem worshipping the God of the cross - of love

Now Future

06.06.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

What will last forever
in eternity, infinity
locked to perpetuity
the now future
of the kingdom come?
Faith - confidence reality
in the seen unseen
Hope - the today joy
of tomorrow's promises
Love - the greatest
gift of purpose, freedom,
sacrifice.

Starting Thoughts: What really lasts in a seemingly temporary world, temporary life? Is it all random or is there more? Why do we search and look for love?
Bible Verses: “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT
Poem Topic Tags: #faith, #freedom, #future, #hope, #infinity, #kingdom, #love,
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

What will last in our world? Is infinity a real thing but personal?

Tags: faith, love, eternity, infinity, hope

Moon

05.06.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Inside
steel girders
Comfortable chairs
Walls safe
Thick concrete
Reinforcing a sameness,
Step to a window
Press nose to cold
See the night,
Moonlight reflections
Of the Son
Lift my soul,
One rock
That spins in space
Crying out,
Dark in itself,
Catching the light
Reverberates
Life of the universe.

Tags: light, jesus, cross, life, birth

Again Rain

04.06.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Again
Soggy leaves
Firefly of colour
Torn travellers
Now tiredly water stuck
to wet tarmac
Stranded
just outside my door
Again
rain on window
skeleton gaps leaf
plastered unmoving
death fighting gravity,
Glass
cold to my nose
as I look close,
Lucky me…
twice warm inside.

Prompt
Poetry: Watching the rain window from inside... heat pump on?

Tags: autumn, leaves, seasons, rain, window

Soul Window

25.05.2015 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Beginning
Snow white we were,
Innocent,
Free.

Beginning déjà vu
the poisoned Apple,
One small moment
In time,
A decision,
Earth's history changes,
Death increases,
Pain intensifies.
The very stones,
Core of earth
wait and groan.

Timeless
Another door opens
Alternate reality,
Hope
Is gifted, birthed, lives, laughs,
Walks with, learns with,
Shows a love
Immense, Free
Giving choice,
Promise in life's lacerations
Hope for dispossessed
Complete forgiveness.
Beautiful.

Jesus
our soul's window
to God's heart,

Open
to the kiss
of the prince.

Tags: cost, love, snow, jesus, sin

Matrix Moments

Media Moments: Question, reflect, connect

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Transparent Life

Threads of Time

Trying to Say

Waiting Seed

Anticipation

Winter Friendship

Seagull

The Point

Ever Love

Be Truth

Rose Coloured

Heart Search

Human Nature

Finding the Spark

Run the Road

My Spirit

Now Future

Moon

Again Rain

Soul Window