Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

White Angel

04.04.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Pupils Written by: W Grieve

Masquerading Killer
Poison vein propaganda
Death angel white cross

Software used: iMovie on Mac

WALT:
To write in the style of "Haiku Poetry" incorporating another literacy device that you can explain within your poem.

Success Criteria:
• You have successfully made the pyramid shape.
• You can explain your application of one other literary devices.
• Have followed the form but shown an ability to vary with intention as needed.
• Placed in the poem strong thoughts about the topic
• I have improved vocabulary by utilising a thesaurus.
• I can use and credit Creative Commons images.

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Falevas Lost

04.04.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Pupils Written by: W Grieve

Faleva houses
dappled paint skin
buried in bush pockets
friends for twenty years
leaning drunkenly,
shoulders rubbing,
rubbish skipping happily past,
Mates
sheltering the disenfranchised
home for the poor,
erratic power
toxic water.

Trapped in the corner
surrounded by politics
and rich people power decisions.

The bulldozer chuckles forward
teeth glinting
Scars rusty
flexing bully muscles,
Carving swathes of pain
through the falvela,
Crushing hopes
nightmares breaking bones.

Either take our money and run
or pay the price,
of our batons
riot police advancing,
Pay the price of our
Olympic dreams.

WALT:
To write in the style of "Protest Poetry" incorporating at least two literacy devices that you can explain within your poem.

Success Criteria:
• I have successfully used the Protest Poetry style.
• I can explain your application of two other literary devices.
• Have followed the form but shown an ability to vary with intention as needed.
• Placed in the poem strong thoughts about the topic
• Creating not just a random set of lines but using craft.
• I have correctly punctuated with complex sentences with comma/s.
• I have improved vocabulary by utilising a thesaurus.
• I can use and credit Creative Commons images.

Inspired by Extreme Poetry resource (131+ pages of poetry tips and ideas). Click to view and gain access to great poetry forms, lessons and activities.

Integrity

04.04.2018 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Pupils Written by: W Grieve

In grit
of life,
There are
moments unwatched
by others,
small heroisms unseen,
thoughtful touches,
an honest thought,
a definite decision
to truth-give.

Courage's genesis
a straightforward heart,
Strength of, "No"
Power of, "Yes"
No guilt,
just assurance,
Not other's images
just yourself,
Your public face
mirroring private skin,
character beauty unfading.

In calamity
integrity tested,
In fear
integrity trialled.

Not slaves to ordinary,
walk,
stand tall - integrity.

WALT:
To write in the style of "Free Form" incorporating at least two literacy devices that you can explain within your poem.

Success Criteria:
• I have successfully used the Free Form Poetry style.
• I can explain your application of two other literary devices.
• Have followed the form but shown an ability to vary with intention as needed.
• Placed in the poem strong thoughts about the topic
• Creating not just a random set of lines but using craft.
• I have correctly punctuated with complex sentences with comma/s.
• I have improved vocabulary by utilising a thesaurus.
• I can use and credit Creative Commons images.

Inspired by Extreme Poetry resource (131+ pages of poetry tips and ideas). Click to view and gain access to great poetry forms, lessons and activities.

Slaves Exist

13.08.2017 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Trapped,
a consignment to consumerism,
No pity,
No rights,
Death by degrees,
slaves,
poor because
mandates and manacles
rights and reasons
are all in the hands
off a powerful few.
Insidiously hidden
third world or first world
thousands live
daily death;
Sex trade, sold souls,
cheap and cheapened labour,
poverty raping
minds and lives from
the future,
How can we watch -
only numbed by statistics
defrauded, desensitised by media,
Someone else,
Someone else,
Someone else will.

And you saw me
Hungry, in poverty
Trapped
and you walked on by
Head down
another message on your cell,
another appointment,
What will others think of your heroin?
Excuses of
not having enough,
worried for your own future.

You saw me,
And never saw me.

Tags: slavery, death, issues, slaves

Trapped

04.04.2016 Filed in: Poetry |Seeker | |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Mother
Three young mouths
Meagre hope
Threadbare cupboards
Shanty corrugated cage
Husband taken
Cholera's meal.

Whispered words
Propaganda hope suggested,
Cash given
Teenager traded,
Bitten by the trafficker
Real life zombie
Taken to sea.
Sweat fisherman blood.

4 hours sleep
20 hours work
4 hours sleep
20 hours work
4 hours sleep…
Fingers to bone.

No escape
No words
No life.

Fear trap,
Miles of ocean,
Netted life,
Broken arm
if you speak out.

Modern slavery
Forty-five million
cries in the wind,
cries in the Dirt,
cries in the Smoke
cries on the ocean,
Tears in the heart!

WALT:
To give voice to the voiceless.

Success Criteria:
* Use strong: new vocabulary, word images
* Protest against an injustice in our world
* Cut words not needed
* Be creative in getting my point across

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Dance the Diabolical

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

The monkey
curls charlatan cute
posed on your shoulder,
porn paws
wrapped in your hair,
appetite growing,
you feed furred desire
screen-bound
whore-hound,
brain disconnecting
relationships dopamine
rewired,
fantasies edged;
morphing
a gorilla grows
draping your shoulders,
scalp pain
as he excitedly
twists your
skin-clad
skull-head.

And you undress
with a not-me click,
the skeleton
of child kidnapped,
stripping innocence,
naked lust
peels pimped life
to the marrow,
you entertainment-click
sado share
toxic abuse,
you grope for
hard-core.

You dance the diabolical.

Watching aroused
this dressed-up world,
Trapped in your
indifferent-hate
self-hate
life-hate,
addicted-hate,
the screen
reflecting your
gorilla red-eyes,
desensitised
not realised.

Not me
you lonely think,
cynically patting
the cute monkey
shoulder perched
score searched...

Dance the diabolical.

Christian Poetry with a Message about Pornography

More info: 15 Reasons , Telegraph - the scary, slaves that work for me

Tags: pornography, sex, issues, slavery

Warning: this writing and video deal with the theme of suicide.

Breaking Waters

10.01.2010 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Mist waters grey the horizon,
Sullen sea white caps
wash thrusting pier,
dark encrusted woods
wounding the ocean’s belly.

Above
the foam-lashed poles
stands a black-coated
figure at Land's End,
A lone woman
in a dark gown
spray-laced air,
the cold
snatching her dress.

Heaviness stalks the atmosphere,
her forfeited heart
tear blurred eyes
stare unseeing
within annoyed sea

Hurt showed
in her silhouette
I called out,
she turned
and I saw black
in the eyes,
personality in retreat
and the sea stilled.

I blinked once
like forgotten care…
she was gone,
an empty space,
questions
about another
life lost.

Litter Life

04.01.2010 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Pupils Written by: W Grieve

Birth,
Milling papers
frowning
sharing puddles
skipping
across road
jostling
in refuse bin,
wrapping
football crowd legs,
Some dirt travelled
others new to game
learning to resist wind
clinging to
buildings
gnarled trees
posts,
Human kindness
has bourne this litter.

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White Angel

Falevas Lost

Integrity

Slaves Exist

Trapped

Dance the Diabolical

Breaking Waters

Litter Life