Lyrical Poems are Welcome here!

[Andrew Schmidt]

@dakota

Amazing job!

Random Stranger: "What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Me: "Write every inch of your future."

[Dakota]

@andrew Thank you so much!

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Dakota]

@parker @vic @andrew @libby @jenwriter17 @nuetrobolt @ericawordsmith @jane-maree @serenity @the-fledgling-artist @urwen-starial @e-b-raulands @emberynus-the-dragonslayer ( please tag some others who think might like this)

This one was also one was kinda spontaneous, but I still have simiular feelins at the time I wrote it. Feel free to comment, critique and/or post some of your own work you’d like to share.

Reverse the Sun

Is there any way my dark world could change for good
I prided my own hard-heart in hardihood
But many the times I missed when I
Could have done better but I didn’t try.

I can flip calendars of crimes I’ve committed.
I can’t remember many times I’ve committed
To make the Son smile down upon
This ever-wandering prodigal son

And I stand in the face of failures I can’t erase
With my head hung down in disgrace
My once soft heart I have defaced
Is there any repair for the damage I have done

I’d take a different turn if I could
I’d turn the world around if it would
But I can’t undo the deeds I’ve done
Yet still I long to reverse the sun

I am haunted by voices every single night
All those voices I’d rather not revive for the fright
In scenes they show, They scream so loud
Decrying the times which I was so proud

And I stand in the face of failures I can’t erase
With my head hung down in disgrace
My once soft heart I have defaced
Is there any repair for the damage I have done

I’d take a different turn if I could
I’d turn the world around if it would
But I can’t undo the deeds I’ve done
Yet still I long to reverse the sun

I’d take it back if I could turn back years
I’d never thrown those arrows or spears
But I can’t undo the deeds I’ve done
So I just long to reverse the sun

I heard You, the Savior, you can take
Away all my shame if I call upon your name
With all the odds stacked and my sanity at stake
I’d rather fall to my knees and cry out God please
Help amend for the deeds I’ve done

I’d take a different turn if I could
I’d turn the world around if it would
But I can’t undo the deeds I’ve done
Yet only You can reverse the sun

I’d take it back if I could turn back years
I’d never thrown those arrows or spears
But I can’t undo the deeds I’ve done
Yet only You can reverse the sun

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Dakota]

@kari-karast

@tdprince

@w-o-holmes

@naiya-dyani

@urwen-starial

Lyrical Poems are Welcome here!

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Dakota]

@parker @vic @andrew @libby @jenwriter17 @nuetrobolt @ericawordsmith @jane-maree @serenity @the-fledgling-artist @urwen-starial @e-b-raulands @emberynus-the-dragonslayer ( please tag some others who think might like this)

Hope you all are doing well.  As always, critique and enjoy! 🙂

Torchlighters

Go! the torch must be carried on
All the world must see flames in the eyes
Kindled by the love of Christ
Set your heart upon the prize
Run until you see the eternal dawn
Go! the torch must be carried on

Men of God, with their souls on fire
Bore His light in their lives no matter the cost
Bore prison and stripes, even their lives they lost
Words they spoke were Holy Spirit inspired
Will we be like them with souls on fire?

Fires they lit are burning still
But the flames are fewer and dimmer these days
Now is the need is urgent to be ablaze
We need to obey, and run in His will
Will our fires be burning still.

Go! the torch must be carried on
All the world must see flames in the eyes
Kindled by the love of Christ
Set your heart upon the prize
Run until you see the eternal dawn
Go! the torch must be carried on

Children called, with their souls still in doubt
Torn between the True Word and Devilish fear
Torn between the needs known and the desires here
Wordly and distracted but called out
Will we be like torches, souls on fire?

Fires so bright and burning high
In the flames consume all our hindering fear
On the smoke float the ashes of pleasures here
We need to obey. The Return draws nigh
We need flames our souls to fill.

Go! the torch must be carried on
All the world must see flames in the eyes
Kindled by the love of Christ
Set your heart upon the prize
Run until you see the eternal dawn
Go! the torch must be carried on

Torches aflame in the shadow
Out in dangers running not fearing the foe
‘Til the end enters this age, burning souls know
We’ll never be quenched, for the One we follow
Never dies. He set us afire.

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Dakota]

@kari-karast

@tdprince

@w-o-holmes

@naiya-dyani

@urwen-starial

Lyrical Poems are Welcome here!

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Eitan]

@dakota

Beautiful! I love the words. The rhyme sometimes seem strange, and I lacked the meter, but it’s still beautiful, and not every poem have to contain rhyme or meter after all 😉

May God will use it to encourage other believers to be faithful to the LORD and obey.

Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. (Revelation 2:10, ESV)

You don't need to see the wind itself in order to hear the rustling leaves.

[Dakota]

@eitan

Thank you for your input and welcome to the thread! 🙂

Yeah, some of my rhymes in this one weren’t perfect. And, to be honest, most of the time I write without an “proper meter” (i.e  iambic, Trochaic, Dactylic, etc.) in mind. Maybe I should do that more often. . .

I sure hope and pray it does! Thank you for posting that verse too! 🙂

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Dakota]

@parker @vic @andrew @libby @jenwriter17 @nuetrobolt @ericawordsmith @jane-maree @serenity @the-fledgling-artist @urwen-starial @e-b-raulands @emberynus-the-dragonslayer ( please tag some others who think might like this)

This one took me months to write, but I finally finished it. Critique and enjoy!!

Watchmen (Sound it Loud)

Watchman, sleeping at your post
Heart unguarded and unaware
Lives go drifting right on past
Souls supposed to be under your care

Watchman, do you even know
Sentries are called to sound the alarm
Warning of the Enemy and saving souls
City’s saved from evil and harm

Watchmen, do you still stand guarding the wall?
Will the King find you to be faithful,
Fervent for the lost to be found?
Watchmen, lift the trump hanging at your side
Sound it loud for sinners in chaos
All the cares and scars of this life.
Watchmen, sound the alarm, loud be your call
For the Eternal One returns and time shall be no more.

Watchman, holding up the horn
Wanting yet wavering to blow
Don’t wait. Faithful you must warn
Those who are captive of the foe.
Souls soon to be sold into slav’ry
Due soon to be doomed to the dungeon forever
Need know there’s salvation at Calv’ry
If they don’t hear they will never enter. Never.
Watchman, this is your duty.

Watchman, where will He find you?
Standing awaiting His appearing
Or sleeping soundly just inside the door? How
Could you to be so weary of hearing?

Watchman, You’re waiting for more
Than to sound a warning call
The King will surely return
To judge all, both the great and the small
Watchman, you’re waiting for him
To see him appear above
Descend to earth in power
And bring his people home in His love.
Watchman will you be ready
To go when that trumpet calls?

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Dakota]

Posted my newest poem/song.

@kari-karast

@tdprince

@w-o-holmes

@naiya-dyani

@urwen-starial

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Andrew Schmidt]

@Dakota

Wonderful poem! You do poetry really well.

Random Stranger: "What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Me: "Write every inch of your future."

[Dakota]

@andrew Thank you! 🙂 Have you written any more poems lately?

Psalm 119:11
Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

[Andrew Schmidt]

@Dakota

Well, no… I haven’t written any new poems recently, but sometime again I’d like to.

Random Stranger: "What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Me: "Write every inch of your future."

[Naiya Dyani]

@dakota Nice job! One question–in the line “Could you to be so weary of hearing?”, is the “to” a typo?

Hearts are like matter--they can be beaten down, torn, and burned, but they cannot be destroyed.

[Eitan]

@dakota

Beautiful! I love it. Makes me thinking about how good am I doing my job… So thank you for sharing! 🙂

You don't need to see the wind itself in order to hear the rustling leaves.

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