Poetry – Page 7 – Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

Holy Ground—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Our voices rise to praise with sound
that’s heard by angels all around.
Drawing near on holy ground
we all begin to worship.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “beginning” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Exodus 3:5 KJV
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Matthew 27:50-51 KJV
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

Decisions—Ovi Poetry Challenge

The words we say like deeds we do
could let the wandering devils through
to grab our mouths, our bodies, too.
Decide to serve the Lord.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “decisions” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

1 Peter 5:8 NKJV
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Expectations—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Offended? But that doesn’t count.
I won’t expect what can’t amount
to anything. We want His fount,
His well of living water.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “expectations” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

John 4:10-14 KJV
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

I found this song on Greg Doles’ blog, Chasing Light

Suddenly—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Just think of it. It all came true.
A mighty sound went rushing through.
He filled the house. Now we are new.
He set our hearts ablaze.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “think” to be used in this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Acts 2:1-2 KJV
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Seed and Harvest—Ovi Poetry Challenge

We’re each a blessing when we sow.
Where ground is good our choice seeds grow.
The harvest goes to those who know
we help by planting seeds.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “help” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Perfect Peace—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Don’t move your mind away from Him.
The devil’s light is nightmare grim.
It blinds with darkness ever dim,
but you don’t have to move.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “move” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Isaiah 26:3 KJV
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Success—Ovi Poetry Challenge

The Lord’s the measure of all rest.
His will becomes our very best.
The tempter loves a failed test.
Success rests with the Lord.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “success” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Matthew 11:28-30 KJV
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Haste—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Haste is not the way to own
the victory. You’ll only groan,
defeated, if you go alone.
The Lord, though, is with you.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “haste” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Isaiah 41:8-10 KJV
8 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Light—Ovi Poetry Challenge

With light their colors brightly show.
The stones in rows lay paved below.
The lilies never toiled so.
There’s no need for me either.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “light” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Matthew 6:25-34 KJV
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Striking the Rock—Ovi Poetry Challenge

Though bold explosions kill and shock
like magic blowing tick from tock,
a miracle won’t strike the rock,
but speak His words to it.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “chaos” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Numbers 20:8-12 KJV
8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.