Easter Poems

Long, long ago

in a land far away

There came the dawn

of the first Easer Day,

and each year we see

that promise reborn

that God gave the world

on that first Easter Morn...

for in each waking flower

and each singing bird,

The PROMISE of Easter

is witnessed and heard

and Spring is God's way

of speaking to men

And renewing the promise

of Easter again

For death is a season

that man must pass through

And , just like the flowers,

God wakens him too...

So why should we grieve

when our loved ones die

For we'll meet them again

in a 'cloudless sky'-

For Easter is more than a beautiful story,

It's the promise of life and ETERNAL GLORY.

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The Hope of the World

An EMPTY TOMB

A STONE ROLLED AWAY

Speak of the saviour

who rose Easter Day...

But that was centuries ago,

And we ask today

WAS IT REALLY SO?

Did he walk on earth?

and live to die

and to return to HIS FATHER

TO DWELL ON HIGH

We were not there

to hear or see,

But our hopes and dreams

of ETERNITY

Are centered around

THE EASTER STORY

When Christ ascended

and rose in glory..

And life on earth

has not been the same,

Regardless of what

the sceptics claim

for, after the lord

was crucified,

Even the ones who had

scoffed and denied

Knew something

had taken place

That nothing could ever

remove or erase...

For hope was BORN.

in the soul of man,

And FAITH to believe

in God's MASTER PLAN

Stirred in the hearts

to dispel doubt and fear

And that Faith has grown

with each passing year...

For the HOP of MAN

in THE EASTER STORY,

For life is robbed

of all meaning and glory

unless man knows

that he has a 'goal'

And a 'resting place'

for his searching soul.

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The Miracles of Easter

The sleeping earth awakens

The robins start to sing,

The flowers open wide their eyes

to tell us it Spring,

the bleakness of the winter

Is melted by the sun,

The tree that stood so stark and dead

Becomes a living one...

These MIRACLES of EASTER,

Wrought with divine perfection,

And the blessed reassurance

Of our Saviour's Resurrection.

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Easter Thought for these Troubled Times

As the Easter Season

dawns once again,

we look on a world

of reckless men-

Men who are 'driven'

by fear and greed

And caught in a web of tension and speed,

Driving themselves,

and the world as well,

Into a future

no one can foretell-

Oh, God, instead

of vain 'driven men'

Fill man's heart

with true DRIVE again,

Spurred by FAITH

in GOD ABOVE

to build a new world

of BROTHERLY LOVE.

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'Why Should I Die for Such as I?'

In Everything both great and small

We see the hand of God in all,

And in the miracles of Spring

When EVERYWHERE in EVERYTHING

His handiwork is all around

And every lovely light and sound

Proclaims the GOD of earth and sky

I ask myself 'JUST WHO AM I?'

that god should send his only son

that my salvation would be won

Upon a CROSS by sinless man

to bring fulfilment to God's Plan-

For Jesus suffered, bled and died

That sinners might be sanctified,

and grant god's children Such as I

Eternal life in HOME on HIGH.

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Rejoice

'Let not Your Heart Be Troubled'

Let not your soul be sad-

Easter is time of joy

when all hears should be glad,

Glad to know that Jesus Christ

made it possible for men

to have their sins forgiven

And, like Him, to live again...

so at his season

May the wondrous Easter Story

Renew our Faith so we may be

Partake of 'His Glory'!

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Eternal Spring

Easter comes with cheeks a-glowing,

flowers bloom and streams re flowing

And the earth in glad surprise

opens wide it Springtime eyes...

all nature heeds that call of Spring

as God wakens everything

And all that seemed so dead and still

experiences a sudden thrill

As Springtime lays a magic hand

across God's vast and fertile land...

Oh, how can anyone stand by

and watch a sapphire, Springtime sky

ors see a fragile flower break through

what just a day ago or two

seemed barren ground still hard with frost,

but in God's world no life is lost..

And flowers sleep beneath the ground,

but when they hear Spring's wakening sound

they push themselves through layers of clay

to reach the sunlight of God's Day...

And man, like flowers, too, must sleep

until he is called from the 'darkened deep'..

To live in that place where angle sing

and where there is Eternal Spring!

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The Revelations of Easter

The wakening earth at Easter

Reminds us it is true

that nothing ever really dies

That is not born anew-

for nature is her Springtime Dress

Reveals kind Mother Earth

Awakening from her Winter's Sleep

to give Spring's children' birth-

so trust God's all-wise wisdom

And doubt the Father never,

For in Heavenly Kingdom

There is Nothing Lost Forever.