Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

Colour Culture Tapestry

16.06.2013 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

What colour in your room?
We have the understated kiwi dark
That blends with the bush
The reds, yellows and blues
of Romania,
Greens
Gold and purple
from Pakistan
Vibrant colours of Malaysia, Singapore,
Korea, Fiji
From Africa, America, Nepal, German
the brothers, sisters
have travelled
To N.Z.
The ends of the earth.
To share stories and life
Flowing threads of culture together
Scottish, Maori, Japanese, British
All joined, called by one love, one Christ
One hope,
Expressed in many voices.
Once all immigrants
to this land,
Once all immigrants
to God’s kingdom,
Now the stories, the yarns
have been woven together
in His love.
A tapestry of
The Christ of the cross
The Christ risen
The Christ who calls his people.

Prompt
Celebrate the mix of cultures that make up the wonderful tapestry of woven colour in our churches.

The Story

09.06.2013 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Free to Take
shared lovingly
elements of wine and bread.

The first
Promise signed
by blood and body,
followed by
Freedom's proclamation
in death's defeat,
A beautiful Love poured
into a dot circling
within universe expanses,
The Crown of Pain
history written,
and Generation’s of
changed human story
told in transformed lives.
Are you Open
To hope's story,
To time's truth
written waiting
in your heart,
To intertwined threads
connecting your spirit
to eternal, perfect love?

Free to take
Yet costly change.

What is your story
in this place?

Starting Thoughts: Communion is a special time as we replay, reenact a special moment that Jesus had with the disciples. They did not see clearly, see the future which should be always the way we approach the table also.
Poem Topic Tags: #communion, #cost, #cross, #easter, #freedom, #hope, #jesus, #love, #praise, #promises, #transformation
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Love of Jesus expressed through communion Easter poetry

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

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

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

Surreal

26.02.2012 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

From second storey
Hospital lounge,
You can see
winding quiet Avon waters,
Punting striped building
stamped on river bank,
Waiting canoes,
paddling ripples
Trees and pathways,
Jogger friends
Lycra and ponytails,
Dog lead stroller,
Threading cyclists power through.

Gaze shifts
From out to in,
My beautiful lady
Eyes lost in heavy lids,
pale drawn skin
Hand tremors lightly
Connected to the pain,
that steals
depth of rest,

Hospital gown fashion
proclaiming she is medicine property,
Tubes from drug bag
Drip time,
Waiting, time slowed
in the blatantly real,
Yet disconnected.
Watching
I love her.

In the midst
we still know Christ,
talk of His love for us
that is unchanging
through this operation event,
Good or bad
Random experiences
do not change
the love of Jesus.

Surreal moments.

Starting Thoughts: Life has deep questions of pain, coping with loss, where is God in all of this. Part of our faith journey with cancer.
Poem Topic Tags: #cancer, #faith, #hospital, #jesus, #love, #operation, #pain, #personal, #reality, #reallife, #suffering,
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Spoken word poetry on life, love God and cancer.

Tags: pain, cancer, reallife, god, love

The Answer

18.09.2011 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

The Answer
Grew with us
Deepened his heart
In the midst of humans,
Laughed
Skinned knees
Encountered friends, bullies
Soul-mates, misunderstandings
Compassion entwined
Its roots in his soul
So deep
His fate sealed
In His love,
Carried Him
To the cross
To hang
World’s reality,
To stand
through time
In the gap
Death to life.
Dark to celebration.

#answers, #carpenter, #celebration, #christian, #cross, #god, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #spokenword, #videos

Tags: cross, jesus, love, death, resurrection

Perfectly Planned

04.11.2010 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Perfectly planned
In time's span,
The arrival.

A baby
To fulfill prophecy,
A light -
Star signs and creator's spark
A man
entwined with Universe power

In a time where Jewish
Religion was official,
A murder -
Killed and resurrected
A power alive -
When roads had been built
By a Roman kingdom
To carry the revolutionary news
Of Kingdom life.

Not of might
Of love,
Not of weapon
Of forgiveness,
Not of anger
Of patience,
Not of death
Of everlasting life.

Time planned
Eternal breath
All hopes arrival.

Poem Tags
#christian, #christmas, #jesus, #poem, #poetry, #prophecy, #spokenword
Prompt
How was the birth of Jesus at Christmas perfectly planned in the human timeline?

Perfectly Planned Christmas Video Spoken Word Poem

Tags: love, christmas, baby, jesus, god

Crossed Paths

12.06.2010 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

What is a life worth?
What was the point?

He hangs
Pain-wracked body
Two others
Either side
One sneers, "save yourself"
tries to bribe
The other sees through
crown of thorns
Asks to be remembered,
How can this happen
In moments from death
That the world
is on the cross?
People just like us stand, lean, sit, hide,
Doubters, scared, irritated, haters, spectators.

Jesus front and centre
Speaks his mission
Not just facing death
But loving to the end
Sharing his life
In his suffering
Talking truth
"Surely you will be with me"
A day of grief, pain, mission,
Power, peace, hurts, friendship, loneliness

Jesus
The boy who once
Skinned his knees
Dies -
Not the end!

God cannot stay
On the cross
in a tomb
A resurrection
passion has been born
Fire burning
through generations,
Experiencing fully human
Truly alive.

His defeat of death
To bring God's
Love
Freedom
Real life
Justice
Story
Imagination
To places, to people.

Tags: cross, death, love, surrender, miracles

Heartbeat

18.04.2010 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

I feel
a need
of Your power,
Take me
break my heart
at the foot
of the cross,
Shatter the bonds
that crust
my life beat,
Then lovingly
restore my heart Lord
Infuse it with Your love
Give me Your pain
for others
but Your peace
to overrule,
give me humbleness
to deny self
boldness
as a saved creation,
Father take my heart
form Your beat
within.

Poem Tags
#character, #christian, #cross, #empathy, #heartbeat, #identity, #love, #poems, #poetry, #spokenword
Prompt
Time to get rid of the hardness around our hearts. Feel, know God's heartbeat.

25th

27.08.2009 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Blue green bay mirrored
to your eyes
seeing in them
Sounds of our past
from "yes"to "I do"
times of passion
dreams together
laughter and stress
worship and mess

Lady in Red
breeze
in beauty

I love
the way we know
each other
the guessed thoughts
the respect for each
others talents

I love
sharing time
holding hands
on sandy beaches
seated in chairs
on river banks
reading in baches
then and now
living vows.

Starting Thoughts: Celebrating a life with of 25 years marriage with my beautiful wife. Love spending time with her.
Poem Topic Tags: #25th, #anniversary, #celebration, #life, #love #marriage, #personal, #relationships, #respect, #seeker
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Anniversary 25th Love Poetry for my wife.

Catch Me

16.06.1995 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

I'm here
ledge high
high-rise
falling, falling
I'm falling
KLUNK!
in love with you.

Prompt
What is falling in love?
Poem Tags
#falling, #love, #marriage, #personal, #poem, #poetry, #seeker, #spokenword, #wedding, #partner

Fallling in Love Marriage Video Poetry Spoken Word

Marriage Dance

25.09.1985 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

We rejoice and delight with you
your unity and affection
enjoying and praising your love
with this time of
eating, drinking, dancing,
laughing and sharing.

Our thoughts are in the songs
gentle unspoken words
kindred conversations,
quiet prayers.
Moments of ceremony and celebration.

We’ve given you to each other
to the fragrance
of a journey
sought after
but found by few,
a love founded deep
in the friendship
and mysteries of Christ,
sharing the fruit
of past and present
and the joy of tomorrow together,
Your love sealed
in the eternal knowledge and care
of the living God.

We thankfully witness
the beauty of
your binding love.

We bless you
in your vision of life together.

Starting Thoughts: A formal declaration of love in front of friends and family, a vow to have vision of life together. Marriage is a wonderful dance of two people into the future based on a commitment to love and connect.
Poem Topic Tags: #celebration, #honour, #love, #marriage, #rings, #vows, #wedding
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,

Marriage vows to start life together. Poetry in Spoken Word

Tags: marriage, vows, love, ceremony, honour

Matrix Moments

Media Moments: Question, reflect, connect

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Colour Culture Tapestry

The Story

Christmas

God's Love

Extremes

Surreal

The Answer

Perfectly Planned

Crossed Paths

Heartbeat

25th

Catch Me

Marriage Dance