Share Your Poems Here!

[Catholicterp7]

[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]A few of us were on chat talking about things we've written and we decided to make a thread to share poems and song lyrics. [/font][/size]

[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]This is the most recent poem I wrote. It's called Via Dolerosa [/font][/size]

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[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]The path that Christ trod was no easy path. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Through the narrow winding streets He went, [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]bruised, beaten and bloody until he was near unrecognizable. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Carrying a tremendous weight on His shoulder for you and me. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]The city streets were not the worst of it, oh no, for after the streets came the hill. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]The hill on which He knew He was to die. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]This was no mere grassy hill, no this was more like unto a mountain. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Rocky, steep and with hardly a path to follow up the side. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Still He continued to walk, still He continued to carry His cross for you and me. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]As He started up this hill, if we can call it such, He grew so weak that as He walked He felt His legs start to give out. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]He tried to find the strength to continue but His body refuesed. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]With His skin already torn from the whips His knees strike the gound as He falls. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Under the great weight of His cross, the weight of our sins, He falls to the ground with a thud.[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]He winces and cries out in gut-wrenching agony.[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]He lays still for a moment, hearing the cries of the crowd and the mocking of the soldiers.[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]As He lays still He remembers the cries of the people "Crucify Him. We have no king but Ceaser. We want Barabas"[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]He remembers and instead of being filled with hate and anger He is moved to pity, mercy and love.[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]The love that surges through Him gives Him the grace to pick up His cross again and carry on.[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]He endured the pain and anguish not once, nor twice but three times. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Three times He fell to the gounrd,[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]three times His bloody, bruised knees hit the rocky street, [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]three times He heard their mocking cries, [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]and three times love for you and me compelled Him to continue on. [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]All of this He did for you, [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]the pain, [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]the humiliation, [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]the sorrow and the suffering, all done for love of you and me. Knowing the pain He endured for love of you, what will your response be?[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Will you, for love of Him, embrace your cross and run to Him?[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Will you, for love of Him, continue on after you fall?[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Will you endure the mocking cries and hateful jeers of those around you?[/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Will you find the courage to forgive those people instead of act against them? [/font][/size]
[size=4][font='times new roman', times, serif]Will you pick up your cross and carry it joyfully as a gift of love back to Him? [/font][/size]
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JMJ+

[arfink]

Roses are red.
Bacon is red.
Poems are hard.
Bacon.

[arfink]

A haiku for the day also:

Cruising down a hill.
Suddenly a sprinkler,
almost crash my bike.

[carmenchristi]

OK, so I origianally said that I couldn't post anything because my notebook was on the other side of the Atlantic, but then I remembered I have a few on my abandoned blog... so here we go...

This one is called [i]De Profundis[/i]




[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]Charcoal hues to paint the dawn[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]remember only night's embrace[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]seek though they will t' awake the morn[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]they have not mind to know of else.[/size][/font][/color][/center]


[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]Though Sun's companion welcomed them[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]with heaven's crown upon their brow,[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]himself shall not their visage see[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]nor shall his courts their likeness bear.[/size][/font][/color][/center]


[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]The dimness of their vesture shall[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]be damned and cast away in death[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]and scarlet shroud envelop them[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]caress and strangle, bind and free.[/size][/font][/color][/center]


[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]And ruby shades shall be their first[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]for through travail they'll know them well[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]But oh! The tint of dawn they are![/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]The foremost herald of the day.[/size][/font][/color][/center]



[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]In sanguine tincture, sanguine token[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]that soon is shed for truer things[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]so guilded tones might rule the sky[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]and shake the shadows of the eve.[/size][/font][/color][/center]


[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]And without requiem are they,[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]those grey and lifeless phanthoms gone[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]while [i]De profundis[/i] now aloud[/size][/font][/color][/center]

[center][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif][size=4]shall [i]Victimae Paschali[/i] sing.[/size][/font][/color][/center]


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Edited August 31, 2012 by carmenchristi

[Ed Normile]

Roses are red,
Smurfs are light blue,
I am no poet,
that much is true.

ed

[Clare~Therese]

Roses are red,
Smurfs are blue,
I can't write poems too.

[TheUbiquitous]

Naked, bleeding everlasting truth
To splintering hate may be bound.
Heaven thunders,
Terra wonders
What provokes the sound.

Innocently, smith at forge bears
Bloody well-ordered fools.
Heaven thunders,
Terra wonders
Why men may not be tools.

Stoic strength sapped stiffly, grinding
Mill'd, stew'd, ghostly, fading, stretched.
Heaven stands,
Terra lies
Plainer, ever blander, not transparent --- yet.




*fingersnaps*







Dire as a child sacrifice
Terrible as for the love of God
Come destroyer, whose very name decieves ---
--- a little white lie.
If into, as, for this dust approaches little white truth
Does anyone lose?

Broken things surround a whole
Dirties yet not staining it.
Cataracts seeing, accusing of holes.
If it should ever be,
Be not for lack of effort.



*fingersnaps*




Jesus said, "Go, children, show all the truth,"
Some hear, "Put on a show," worse yet, "Show off."
That's why we feel like they're putting us on.
(Therefore, they're turning us off.)

Man set afire will silence the scene
When neither flailing nor making a sound.
We care for fire which gives out no smoke,
We must not blow it lest we come unbound.



*fingersnaps*





White sand coats in cresting dunes
a plain too plain for raving loons.
Thickset lenses blind the eyes,
threadbare footnotes man's own prize.
Filth exalt and truth ignore,
patterns, patterns we deplore.
Tear the sheet, man, spread the dirt,
blind yourself, bend, twist, subvert!
Unwashed, careful, cradle grit
Left alone and ne'er submit.
When so pure the one exception
know all things with preconception.
Know no thing, for ever next
live for failure, live for wrecks.
Sooner live to see a breach ---
soon forget the warm, fine beach.


*throw tomatoes*