Christian poems often directly reference the Bible, while others provide allegory.” This definition, to me, sounds too narrow. Jesus Christ, in Matthew 11:28, says “Come to me, all you who are ...

A poet whose second collection of poems is due out later this year ... and even as I believe that seeing the imago Dei in even the most detestable person is central to Christian faith, I sometimes ...

Poetry can help us encounter the mystery at the heart of the matter without being destroyed.

The Akathist Hymn is a profound, devotional poem, which sings the praises of the Holy Mother ... The stanzas alternate between long and short. Each short stanza is written in prose and ends with the ...

Readers who enjoy reflective poems will like this one. Where to read: You can read “The Bells” at All Poetry. Poe’s unnerving Ligeia is a grotesque short story that blurs the lines between ...

D.N. “This Is Not a Small Voice” by Sonia Sanchez Adrian Neibauer’s fifth grade students in Colorado have loved this “short and powerful” poem. As not-quite-tweens, Neibauer said his students “are ...

And the martyrs are indeed a wonderful spectacle and do present a wonderful demonstration of Christian faith. That is certainly ... We know this from his poems and we know it from other ...

This short Easter speech for youth uses a more ... other symbolic items or creating new closing lines. If faith is important to your family, children can recite this Christian acrostic poem to explain ...

The gladiatorial games, which became abhorrent to Christian conscience ... a pruning down of the supporting rig and having greater faith in the natural flexibility of the horizontal yard to ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

The poet Semyon Nadson (1862 - 1887) lived for 24 years. He is known for being the first poet of Jewish descent to achieve ...