Popular Poems About Religion

( a Sonnet )
 
   
 
 
 
A life, with its veneer of tears and pain
That shimmer from a season’s sun and rain,
No vicar with a St. James Bible verse
Will honor you a free ride in a hearse.

When by volition taking of one’s breath,
Thus causes bringing on of one’s own death.
The vantage point of this is fading fast
From cultures tightly clinging to the past.

A vacancy that’s vying to be filled,
A burial for every one that’s spilled,
Will come to pass with every desperate vow,
For nothing’s...

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” Mahatma Gandhi

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The horizons, which drag their claws
Through the razor
Grass, are
Holding the dissipating glow of
Morning, where eyes are...

I love the Lord
I Praise HIS Name
I worship HIM
Even when there’s pain.
Though every storm
as well as Sunshine
HE brings me to HIS
ever lasting Light.

I love the Love
I Praise HIS Name
I know He’s there
beside me
Both night & day
I pray that others
see His light
& not my own
For Human Love
always Fails
But His never does.
I pray that others
see His Glorious Light,
For it’s Him who we must see,
We’re nothing without HIM
no matter what we have
It’s He who...