Poetry for God's Glory....

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

  • Song of the Crucifier


    I stoned You with the rest of them
    We cast our lots and cracked our whips
    I denied You, crucified You,
    Curses poured out of my lips
    You held Your hands out in love
    We laughed and nailed them to a cross.

    We thought it was over and done
    You cried “It is finished”
    And we danced for we had won.

    I watched You finish Your last breath
    Before an earthquake pulled me down
    Thunder shook in anger of Your death
    And You won’t find me laughing now.

    And honestly,
    I don't expect a thing from You
    I’m not worthy to even say Your name
    And honestly,
    I don't have the strength to look up
    I'll only collapse from the weight of my shame.

    After the thunder comes a silence
    After the storm follows peace
    I hear a whisper in the stillness
    I hear You say that You love me
    Over and over and over again,
    And I cry as I lay here at Your feet

    It’s too much to carry…
    That You could truly love me
    Your kindness only magnifies my sin

    You whisper "Child, My burden weighs less
    Than a grain of sand upon the shore
    Of that Sea of Forgetfulness
    I drowned your sins in before.

    And honestly,
    I love you more than anything
    I want you more than you even want me
    And honestly,
    The day you nailed me to that Tree
    My blood covered everything.
    It will always and forever be enough.

    My grace is sufficient.
    My love is eternal and true
    You don’t have to carry anything-
    I’ll be carrying you."


Monday, 23 February 2009

  • Broken Melody.


    Is it supposed to be this hard-
    To hurt this much?
    I've losing control and now I fear
    I'm losing touch...with You.

    I play our melody so beautifully
    In front of everyone
    But lately I've been missing notes-
    I wonder if its noticed that they're gone.

    It's been a while since I walked alone with You
    Been a while since I called out Your name
    I've been afraid to be alone with thoughts of You-
    I know I'll only collapse in my shame.

    What once was joy has faded to defeat
    Lifeless fists, hanging by my sides
    But yet, still fists, and if You give me strength to trust,
    They might be willing again to try and fight.


Saturday, 17 January 2009

  • Be Still and Know it's Still the Cross


    Lord, I come
    Bringing my thoughts to You
    And these words that You have heard a thousand times.
    Confessions and offerings
    Praises and pleas
    In hope of true direction, I fall upon my knees.  

    And I hear You say,
    Be still,
    Be still,
    I already climbed that hill
    I rose again to give you peace
    It’s already been done you see
    And it’s still the Cross that sets you free
    So be still
    Be still,
    And know That I am God  

    Here I come
    Holding out my heart so tired
    And these thousand times I’ve failed you just today.
    Overwhelmed and scared
    Ashamed and unprepared
    Fearful of consequences that I could never pay   
     

    And I hear You say,
    Be still,
    Be still,
    I already climbed that hill
    I rose again to give you peace
    It’s already been done you see
    And it’s still the Cross that sets you free
    So be still
    Be still,
    And know That I am God  

    -Katie-

Monday, 05 January 2009

  • The Sweetest Song


    What's the saddest song you've ever sung?

    Would you sing it to me?
    Together we can fix the words
    And make it something sweet  

    We'll add another verse or two
    Give it a happy-ever-after
    I know it hurts to breathe the lines again
    But you can't hold the tears forever    

    Sing your song
    I'll sing mine too
    And we'll play our melody for all the people.
    Let them see
    We'll be okay
    The sunshine always comes after the rain    

    Will you walk the streets with me?
    Thru all the dancing city lights
    We'll hold each others heads up high
    Our voices raised throughout the night  

    Let the hopeless know there’s Strength that lies
    In giving up the pain
    It’s the sweetest song we'll ever sing-
    Somebody already bore the rain.    

    Sing your song
    I'll sing mine too
    And we'll play our melody for all the people.
    Let them see
    They’ll be okay
    The sunshine always comes after the rain...  

    -Katie-

Wednesday, 31 December 2008

  • I hope you all had a lovely Christmas! I realize I haven't posted in quite a while. Anywho, here's a bit of encouragement to start off the new year with. Have a wonderful New Year's. =]


    Here’s to another day
    Keep my chin up high
    Only by Your grace
    Can I make it this time   

    I’ll show myself approved
    I’ll fall in love with You
    Study to know Your ways
    Rightly divide Your Truth  

    Give me the strength inside
    To strive to be done
    Only with Your Grace, Lord
    Can this battle be won.  

    -Katie-

Friday, 03 October 2008

  • Is He?


    Butterflies and flowers
    Both die and fall away
    Fleeting moments of happiness
    But what is True shall stay.  

    We cry for understanding
    As we mourn for those we’ve lost
    But the painting isn’t finished yet
    And the end’s well worth the cost.

    The questions forever block the way
    Of the passage Peace has made
    Yet...in spite of understanding sought,
    Is God good, or is He not?

    -Katie-

Thursday, 02 October 2008

  • Sailor's Warning


    The sky showed scarlet this morning

    When I pulled the anchor away
    The thunder even sounded a warning
    But I determined to steer my ship straight  

    Now I wait for my Jesus to show Himself
    To conquer these thrashing waves
    They threaten to sink my helpless boat
    My heart cries out for His grace.  

    A wave of despair rushes over my deck
    I cling to the rails in fear;
    He silently rises up through the storm
    With a whisper of “Peace, be still”  

    He didn't need to conquer the waters
    Because the wind was at his command;
    And I never once lost my way in the storm
    For my ship never left port of His hand.  


    -Katie Wilson-

Thursday, 04 September 2008

  • Hidden Hope...

    There’s a song hidden in the back of my heart
    I know if I sing it it’ll tear me apart
    Caught in the crossfire of His will and mine
    The melody coaxes me to surrender this time
    But my Opponent, I said, was nothing to me
    Simply an obstacle to claiming the key
    To a life of my own
    To be happy and free.
    That haunting refrain won’t ever touch my heart
    Cause this is how I choose to be
    This is how I choose to be.  

    I denied every thought, every need of this Man
    A fruitless attempt to be free
    I wanted to change, but I saw nothing to obtain
    I’d only fall apart again, back into this sea of hate
    I don’t have that kind of faith
    I’m falling farther every day
    Don’t pray for me
    I don’t need Him now.
    [Though the song inside plays differently]
    This is how I choose to be...
    This is how I choose to be.

    [Is there any hope for me?] 

    ~Katie~

    (Just to clarify...this poem isn't about me. =]] )

Saturday, 30 August 2008

  • Waiting...


    This wind whispers through the grass
    Dew seeps in to touch my back
    Under these stars I feel so close to Him.
    I ask about you and what I’ll find
    And fantasies swirl around this mind
    Whose thoughts flutter off to
    Hopeful places
    Where my wings find rest from these
    Worn-out phases.
    What makes me truly tremble
    Is one day I’ll really find you.
    Whisper it through the continuum...
    And I will whisper back again
    "I love you"  

    ~Katie~

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

  • Shut your eyes...
    But don’t hold back the tears
    Don’t hurt yourself by keeping it inside.

    Tell me now...
    Who do you cry for tonight?
    Breathe in deep now and open your eyes.

    Name your fears...
    Pull them out from under your mind
    Be honest with yourself this time.

    Give it up...
    Surrender it to Jesus; don’t fight
    Before your heart leaves you again tonight...

    -Katie L. Wilson-

Monday, 18 August 2008

  • Restraining Anger

    Don’t think that your stare can pin me to the ground
    I’ve heard all that you have to say
    But this time you managed to dig yourself deep
    It takes nerve to treat someone that way.

    No, I won’t stand and watch like I normally do
    I won’t apologize for voicing the truth
    Toleration’s walls have fallen thru tonight
    I rise from the rubble with determination and fight.

    There’s an anger in me I cannot describe,
    It surpasses the amount of your spiteful lies.
    But to let it escape is something I cannot do
    Because then...I would be no better than you.

    -Katie-

    He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. Proverb 16:32

Monday, 21 July 2008

  • So I really haven't written or finished anything new in a while...this is a really old one I wrote over two years ago. o_0 Thought it was sorta appropriate...it being summer and all...maybe a bit late but it makes me laugh. Enjoy.
     

    Ode to the End of School

    Summer has arrived
    In spite of these detested studies I've survived
    No more Algebra  for you and me
    No more equations of b-cubed times 33
    Forgotten are adverbs and conjunctions
    I refuse to diagram any Grammar functions
    Memorizing dates in History
    Of battles and what-not
    Will just have to wait
    Cause I doubt that of those I'll even have a thought
    Of protons and electrons I'll be lectured no more
    I'm happy to finally be rid of that bore
    So let's forget all this mess
    It's time to give my brain a rest
    Summer has come
    Let's go have some fun!


    ~Katie W.

Sunday, 20 July 2008

  • Eh...just something I scribbled down today. ^_^

    No, He doesn't always stop the storms,
    But He does control the winds and rain.
    Remember, when it seems that you are all alone,
    Jesus is as close as the whisper of His name!

    ~Katie

    You guys have a good week!

Tuesday, 08 July 2008

  • Mkay...so...here's another Psalm adaption of mine. Hope you enjoy. =)

    Hear my cry, O God
    Attend unto my prayer
    From ends of the earth I will cry
    This is more than my heart can bear

    Lead me, Lord, to the Rock
    The Rock that is higher than I
    For You have been my Shelter
    In Your wings will I hide

    Hear my voice, O God
    Hear it in my prayer
    Hide me from my enemy
    Preserve my life from fear

    Lead me, Lord, to the Rock
    The Rock that is higher than I
    For You are my Strong Tower
    In You will I abide

    ~from Psalms 61 & 64

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

  • So I haven't posted a poem in quite a while so I thought I'd add one of my adaptions of Psalms. =)

    I seek to find Your mercy, God,
    Though there's none that I deserve.
    I come dirty and defenseless
    Praying my confession will be heard.


    Once again I've wronged You
    And done this evil in Thy sight.
    There's no excuse by which to justify
    For I knew what was right.

    Now I acknowledge my transgression
    Before me stands my sin.
    Look inside my heart, Lord,
    And judge what lies within.

    Wash me throughly from iniquity
    Cleanse me from my sin
    Blot out my transgressions, and
    I shall be whiter than snow within,

    Psalm 51

Monday, 21 April 2008

  • My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
    why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
    O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
    But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
    But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
    All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head saying,
    He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
    Psalm 22: 1-3, 6-8

    My God, My Judge,
    Why hast Thou forsaken Thy Son?
    I’m willing to bear the scorn of those that mock me here
    But enduring the shame of Your reproach
    Is more than I can bear.

    More painful than these thorns inside my head
    Yet, I cry out in this moment of my death

    That You are holy
    Never could You be anything else.
    I am just a worm
    Despised and abused-
    You are the King
    And I’ve become a beggar,
    Yet I must sing
    That You are Holy.

    My God, My Judge,
    I cry out, but You hear me not
    The night lives on as my body hangs upon this tree
    Suffering for the very crowd that
    Stands here mocking me

    They speak the truth, though. while casting their lots
    You turned away because of what my blood has bought

     Yet You are holy

    Never could You be anything else.
    I am just a worm
    Despised and abused-
    You are the King

    And I’ve become a beggar,
    Yet I must sing

    That You are Holy.


     -Katie-
    April 11-12, 2008
    Psalm 22

    It just amazes me the humbleness of Jesus' attitude on the cross. He calls His Father "God" becauase His Father is now His Judge...because of Jesus' humanity and the sin He's taken upon Himself for us. The physcal side of His death was nothing compared to the torture of being totally abandoned by His Father when He had to turn away. And yet...Jesus says...."Thou art Holy." What an amazing Savior we have.

Friday, 04 April 2008


  • These tired tears behind my eyes
    Have refused to fall
    But now that I see that I was wrong
    And I don't feel very tall.

    Become acquainted with yourself-
    I highly recommend.
    I met myself today and I'm
    Ashamed to say that we were friends.

    - Katie -
    4-3-08


Sunday, 23 March 2008

  • It’s looking down at me
    Smiling enormously
    Till angry clouds come pushing it away
    The question posed once again
    The answer carried by the wind
    But hold on,
    Hold on,
    And maybe you can’t fly
    Maybe...
    Maybe fairies aren’t real after all
    But no one’s ever told us yet
    So we’ll go on believing
    Believing we can try


     We sail at morning’s light
    Ahoy! And let us fly!
    Second to the right this ship sails thru the sky
    Straight on till morning-
    If the clouds stay tucked away
    So hold on,
    Hold on,
    And maybe you can’t fly
    Maybe...
    Maybe fairies aren’t real after all
    But no one’s ever told us yet
    So we’ll go on believing
    Believing we can try

    ~Katie~




Wednesday, 05 March 2008

  • Lord, here I stand tonight
    So undeserving of Your grace
    And I would understand
    If You just walked away
    But I’m clinging to a promise
    A pledge You made to me
    So its here I find myself tonight
    Before You on my knees


    So I lift my hands to You
    And call upon Your name
    Empty and shaken,
    Crying out through my pain
    “Let Your love and mercy fall
    Let it rain down on me-
    Wash away these bitter tears
    Cleanse my heart of secret fears.”


     Lord, I want to trust You-
    To blindly follow without fear.
    When I shake away the chains
    Of everything I hold dear
    I’ll need You more than ever
    To strengthen me cause I’m weak.
    Help me to remember, Lord,
    I’ll stand taller on my knees.

     

    And I lift my voice to You
    To praise Your precious name
    My Constant, my Rock
    You’ve proven You don’t change
    Lord, even when You’re silent
    I can feel Your presence here
    Though I may feel I am alone
    You still hear every prayer

    You still hear every single prayer...

    ~Katie L. Wilson~

Monday, 25 February 2008

  • There’s so much here
    that’s keeping me
    from loving You the way I should
    the way I want
    With each distraction
    You fade away a little more
    and the world gains a little more control
    the control You should‘ve had

     I want to change
    Erase the past
    All these things that I’ve done
    All these battles I’ve never won
    I tried so hard to do this on my own
    I was so wrong

     I  need  forgiveness, Lord
    I’m on my knees, so
    let that cleansing wave wash  over me
    Today this ends
    Today I’m done
    From here my eyes will stay on You
    On You alone

     So break me down
    Show me, Lord, what I’ve become
    Search my heart
    and break my will to make it Yours
    I want to do this right
    from now on
    Lord , help me to keep my eyes  on You
    On You alone


    ~Katie Wilson~ 

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  • Hey y'all I'm Katie. I'm a senior, and I enjoy writing poetry. This site is dedicated to my poetry, which I hope to glorify God with. It's not perfect, but come on in- I'd be happy to have you!!!

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  • I'm thinkin I should start a xanga...to blog/rant lol. Poetry is fun..and i have a blog on myspace, but it aint teh same. whatcha think?
  • Lord, You take my heart away with Your love...and I am willing to put all my faith in Your plan. Come and take my life. ~Kutless~
  • For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isaiah 55:8

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