Tag: Good Friday

April 2, 2021

Metonymy and Paint Chip Poetry

Spring is in full swing. Perhaps new life will make its way into some of our poems for this prompt. We are in the M section of the poetry journal and there were quite a few options, but many of them we way too long...

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April 19, 2019

No More Veil

The Holy of Holies Where God dwelt Behind a veil The High Priest knelt The veil of blue Purple and scarlet Barred the way Because of debt When on the cross My Jesus died Darkness fell And women cried The veil was torn Ripped in...

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March 31, 2018

The Shepherd’s Door

The door the Shepherd opened No one can ever close The door to His tomb was sealed How it was opened He knows By it He made the only way For us to be redeemed Though the people thought He died Things weren’t as they...

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March 30, 2018

Good Friday Mystery

The thick veil ripped in two Darkness covered all the land As the Spirit of God departed the body of Jesus the man How it transpired a mystery Our fragile minds cannot grasp Sins on the cross all forgiven When Jesus breathed his last Satan...

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March 27, 2018

Resolve

The crowd egged Him on but He never cracked Pilate put pressure on but He didn’t blow His stack He knew what lay ahead but never shied away The hardest cross before Him but nothing made Him sway He knew He’d rise another day ———————...

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April 14, 2017

At the Cross

At the cross At the cross Satan thought he was boss But he was defeated Death was deftly cheated Of its power over us Jesus not forsaken Our faith unshaken

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April 11, 2017

Light and Momentary

His light and momentary trouble hanging on the cross far outweighs my trials each and every loss He gained my salvation eternal life with God By His sacrifice I’m awed

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April 9, 2017

Hosanna for Today

Hosanna in the highest Today that’s what they say As palm branches sway But there’s still agony to pray Hell to pay They’ll forget this day In five days’ time

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April 5, 2017

It Was Foretold

Tables turned Coins scattered Spark a murderous rage Caiaphas hatches a plan To kill just one man His anger to assuage Pilate is his pawn Still Jesus rose at dawn

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April 20, 2016

Darkness

Dark The day As if night My soul cries out Redemption

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