Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

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

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

Future Threads

23.02.2014 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Unknown futures
stretch threads
Wandering questions
through my mind,
What next?

We want and hope
for so much,
Yet feel self shortchanged
Overlooked, tired.

And in it all
A search for love, meaning
Purpose, fun,
Not the random, empty.

Thousands of years of history
shout a story
to me today,
a story of twelve
a story of millions
a story of the One.

What would happen
If I give the unknown
to a known God?

Prompt
The future stretches out in front of you... where is it going, how connected are we to the possibilities for ourselves?
Poem Tags
#christian, #futures, #history, #hope, #hopes, #jesus, #meaning, #possibilities, #poetry, #poem, #questions, #seeker, #spokenword, #story, #threads, #tiredness

Questions in the future, poems spoken word

Tags: futures, questions, unknown, hope, trust

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

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

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