God Doesn’t Make Sense God doesn’t make sense Who is he that honors is words than his name Yet, his words a spell to cast Earlier chants of prayer, his name beareth the master’s key Like your … Continue reading God Does Not Make Sense by Daniel Ajayi | PAROUSIA Magazine
For today Release me, God, one more time, from carrying these boulders of regret and guilt that I have created through thoughtless acts and blind inactions. They are part of my journey now, forged into my past with no … Continue reading Three Poems from Thalia Dunn | PAROUSIA Magazine
Souls are dying Youths are crying, Who would lead them across To calvary where lies the cross? Who would let them know They are cleansed white as snow Through the blood of the lamb Which made them a … Continue reading Two Poems from Olaitan Victor Olanrewaju | PAROUSIA Magazine
Making Melody A small mission church with motley voices Of people from here, from there, everywhere off-key, perhaps? but with enthusiastic flair! Together, we sang the way that rejoices. CDs and speakers carried the tune giving Sunday songbirds inspired guide … Continue reading Two Poems from by Victoria Crawford and George W. Ross | PAROUSIA Magazine
Hurrahing in Harvest Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? I walk, I lift up, … Continue reading Hurrahing in Harvest | A Poem by Hopkins, Gerard Manle | PAROUSIA Magazine
Gideon Cecil captures both the heart and the ear in his romantic musings. In bold style Cecil re-establishes the territory of the masters in his rhythmic and rhyming pieces. Here is a book of poetry worth investigating.
– John Kaniecki Continue reading IMMORTAL LOVE SONGS by Gideon Cecil | Parousia Christian Poetry Chapbook No 2 | PAROUSIA Magazine
Morning Prayers Wearing tallit and praying shacharit with loving intent, my prayers become electronic donations to this messianic era, and allow me to shed the synthetic skin of ego and become the rhetoric of beauty. Life is noisy, but … Continue reading Morning Prayers by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
deliverance my sin is like yellow rain falling through broken trees but grace is like a seaward sky leaving me benign and pliable so that I become a calm clean river. Download Rick Davis’s Poetry Chapbook “WALKING” Continue reading deliverance by Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
A FEW MOMENTS Silence unwinds into peaceful loving afternoon. The cat sits in his cat-tree grooming himself While the dog stares out the overcast window. Both sing a quiet melody of contentment. Playing with and petting them, … Continue reading Two Poems from Rick Davis | PAROUSIA Magazine
A Stone for the Garden He digs in the river bank searching right-sized rocks shaped for garden gate. Gray, black, white stones pile up. A last one is found, not square, jumbled colors, granite composite, … Continue reading Three Poems by Victoria Crawford on PAROUSIA Magazine
JOURNEY I looked out of the train window I saw a young woman sat next to the sitting statue on the bench if you didn’t know he was not real you would never know. The woman sat opposite me gets … Continue reading Three Poems by Marc Carver | PAROUSIA Magazine
Clutching Hope Whenever you feel like vanishing remember all those times you wanted to pause it all but your God kept sending one more breath your way. … Continue reading Two Poems by Ifunanya Angelique | PAROUSIA Magazine
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles in all stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, … Continue reading Pied Beauty | A Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins | PAROUSIA Magazine
GOD’S MIGHTY ATOMS By Reinhard Bonnke 1. Physics teach us that the atoms, although so miniscule Possess ferocious potency one hardly can control. Each atom is a power pack and so is each believer, If we can say “Christ lives … Continue reading GOD’S MIGHTY ATOMS | A Poem By Reinhard Bonnke | PAROUSIA Magazine
The Word No word from God, of power is void, No idle word He’s spoken In every sentence now He lives His promise can’t be broken. A part is He, of all He’s said In every word He’s hidden The … Continue reading The Word | A Poem by E W Kenyon | PAROUSIA Magazine
ON THE WALK TO EMMAUS Plodding through with him on Emmaus road You don’t know you know him He colours history you nurture as fantasies with pictures, with quotes with facts, with truths like he’d seen it on … Continue reading ON THE WALK TO EMMAUS | A Poem by Oluwafemi Babasola | PAROUSIA Magazine
