Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

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
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Poetry Resource for teachers in schools for writing with children - hello goodbay poem

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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Death and life in Autumn Spoken Word Poem

Tags: rain, autumn, weather, covid19, warmth

In Charge of the World

20.03.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

If I were in charge of the world
fitness would be eating ice cream
guns would melt away
and global warming would be global just right.

If I were in charge of the world
old age would mean thirty year old bodies
young age would have more common sense
and middle age would eat more ice cream.

If I were in charge of the world
politicians would turn green if they lie
everyone would stop to enjoy beautiful moments
and digital devices would stop when overused.

If I were in charge of the world
Almond chocolate would be a fruit
A hug would last for twenty seconds
And a person who sometimes left the toilet seat up
Who liked to bike and spend time with his grandson
Who sometimes buys too many gadgets
Would still be in charge of the world.

Starting Thoughts: How would us being in charge of the world make it a different and better place? Can you place some humour into this form of poetry as well? What will make your version of this poem unique?
Poem Topic Tags: #ageing, #children, #gadgets, #global, #icecream, #leadership, #moments-in-time
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In Charge of the World Poetry writing for children

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Two Eyes

14.03.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

How can we see
with two eyes?

Two eyes that
look across a nation
look into a womb
Look at the same moments
Look at the same realities.

One sees unborn life
a miracle moment
a boy or girl
anticipated child
already part of a family
Talked about, scans adored,
arms, legs, mind, heart
so formed
it could be born now and live,
a baby.
Secretly cherished in anticipation,
now past a time
where parents accept the hope
of full term
seen as a life to protect,
Shared with ripples of separation
To Family, grandparents,
close friends, social media
A joy hope treasured
Heart held.
A Second eye
sees pain
labeled a foetus
distance from emotions
through a medical term
No easy answer
to this unborn complication
always a situation
persuading full termination
   the mind stress
   the so wrong rape
   the women’s rights body
all true
inconvenient reality
convenient reality?

A blinded world that has
Lost sight of love
for a mother
for motherhood
for a death row baby.
Are we not as strong
as our care for weak
as our care for the voiceless?

How can we see
with both eyes?

Starting Thoughts: Abortion is a contentious issue no matter what side you are on. The question is - are we really willing to look at and empathise with the pain on both sides, are we really willing to decide what constitutes life for both mother and baby?
Poem Topic Tags: #abortion, #babies, #baby, #death, #eyes, #foetus, #life, #love, #parenthood, #parenting, #parents, #pregnancy, #termination, #womb
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Abortion, love and respect for life Spoken Word Poem

Tags: love, abortion, termination, womb, baby

Once for All

12.03.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Histories appointed time
Witnesses in groups
scattered around the hill,
Centurions guarding
clutching weapons and discipline
Eyes watching cross nailed body
One of Rome’s three erected punishments,
Disciples grief clustered
mother, brother, friends, disciples
broken hopes pierced with
shards of possibilities,
strangers there just to watch
nervous after earthquakes
had thrown all to ground
and blackness cloaked the sun,
Mockers stood angrily close
Pointing fingers and bitter tongues,
Serpents in the distance
Priests and Pharisees
politicians and Sadducees
manipulators and blamers
Covering hypocrisy
Pulling the strings of greed
and charlatan history
to the skull shaped hill,
Watching in awe and dread
the risen dead
holy people from tombs
laughing and
walking Jerusalem’s streets.

And the waiting
the waiting
Starts
the waiting
the waiting...

For some this time
Pauses life
Suspends talking, hugging, futures,
For others
relief and business as usual,
For others
covering the lies
coating the death dealing
in white paint
lime wash on the bodies.

Three days journey
emotions and thoughts
questions and statements,
And Earth shifted again
And Jesus simply walked
from death’s depths,
The power to raise from
one death
once for all
One death
was risen
with the power
to bring life
eternally, always, without fail
for all.

Starting Thoughts: At the dividing time in history - a story, a fable, a truth? Jesus who walked Earth, was crucified and rose from the dead at Easter. For you, once and for all.
Poem Topic Tags: #cross, #death, #easter, #golgotha, #jesus, #pharisees, #power, #resurrection, #risen, #sadducees
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At Easter the power of God in life over death is demonstrated at the cross

Tags: love, jesus, resurrection, cross, gift

99% Nothing

08.03.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Three in one danced
Cosmic powers that
Spun eternal belonging
And from that community
From that communication
From that fellowship
From that love
the word spoke,
From nothing
Atoms of 99% space
arranged themselves
Galaxies composed themselves
Earth formed
And the godhead
saw it was good,

The word spoke
in power again
and then from matter
Atoms, nuclei and electrons
was formed a living
99% nothing:
65% water
65% oxygen
18% carbon
16% protein
16% fat

100% loved
100% belonging
welcomed home
to Father, Son and Spirit.

Starting Thoughts: The power of the Word that spoke and from nothing created the universe that is still essentially nothing. And humans, composed of the same atoms are also 99% nothing but we are alive and thinking about the cosmos we live in. I find it amazing that essentially space and us are so similar - nothing. Yet, go figure - God says we are worth dying for, celebrating in His creation.
Poem Topic Tags: #belonging, #creation, #galaxies, #godhead, #love, #power, #science, #space, #universes, #word
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Creation and the science of nothing Christian Spoken Word Poem

Talking to Jesus

01.03.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Why do I talk
the mean words,
Lazy words
words that don’t
change the world
Words that circle
the drain and just slip away
Words that have
no power to change,
Words that chain
locks on circumstances
Words that hurt
others and myself
Words that just fill time
Leak time
Waste time
Waste life.

Can I be honest?
Can I be open?
Can I talk to God?

Can I ask God
for a touch of heaven
on Earth?
The changes of heaven
brought to Earth?
A release of
what is happening?
So here I am
talking to God,
Praying
Opening the situation,
Believing in the
next steps,
Hearing His call
Hearing His voice
Seeking to know His direction
Stepping with God
By Talking to God
Praying with God.

Starting Thoughts: Does God seem far away? Is talking to Jesus just echoes in life's canyon? The questions of prayer, of just simply trying to talk to Jesus rather than wasting time on negative talking and thinking.
Poem Topic Tags: #ask, #conversations, #gossip,
#hearing, #honesty, #listening, #power, #praying, #relationships, #released, #seeking, #talking, #voice, #words
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Spoken Word poem about prayer - talking honestly with God

New Covenant

01.03.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

A Changed life
A new covenant
a promised Hope
prophetic promises
they seem so far away,
Lost in mysteries
Lost in the past
Lost in other cultures
Lost in curses from generations
Lost in business
Lost in guilt and regret
Lost in identity confusion
Lost to the grip of death
What can I do? Nothing!

But then Jesus called
The glorious Word spoke
Called Us - called me by name...
to know Him
invited into his goodness
through believing and receiving
and now we are
Simply, wonderfully
Hidden in Christ, the Messiah
one with Christ
from the beginning,
in his searing death
In his pure righteousness
in his powerful resurrection
in his abundant grace
in his regal freedom
In his deep, deep love
in his divine power
in his eternal life.

And now we reign
as kings, queens in life
here and now
chosen sons and daughters
with the sunshine of heaven
Embedded, flowing from our hearts
Believed in by God
I am who he says I am
We are who
He says we are.

Starting Thoughts: History revolves around a split in time between the old and the new covenant where Jesus died and rose and with the plan from eternity restored us all to God, not through what we do but through what God says we are in the love, forgiveness, grace and resurrection of Christ.
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