Religious Poems for Free
by Nicholas Gordon
Poems about religion, religious poetry, free for any personal or non-commercial purpose. All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon. For religious stories, click on Religious Stories for Free.
Agnostic- Adam Is a Model for Us All
- Angels Are Quite Ample Cause to Cry
- Can One Celebrate a Miracle
- Each Year We Celebrate Christ's Resurrection
- Easters Come and Go; the Thought Remains
- Faith
- Given the Nature of Reality
- I Think of You as Watching from
- In Memory of Those Who Died
- Light Eludes the Latitudes of Longing
- No One Is the Author of This Poem
- Nothing Is, but What Is Evident
- Perhaps There Is a Purpose to All Things
- Saviors Seldom Surface Nowadays
- Say There's Neither Santa Claus nor God
- Secular Celebrations Seem So Spare
- Silent Night. The Whole World Holds Its Breath
- Sing of the Holidays That Send One Home
- So Ancient a Festival Ought Touch the Heart
- So Do We Mark the Turning of the Light
- So May You Be Happy at This Time
- Some Would Sacrifice Their Dearest Sorrows
- Swinging Low in Chariots
- The Only Hope Is that There Is No Hope
- There Is No Being at the Heart of Being
- To Thank You Is a Gift One Gives Oneself
- Where Do We Go
- Zechariah
Buddhist
- Lest You Leave Your Longings in the Sunshine
- Let Your Birth Sign Lie upon Your Chest
- Luck Is like a Tide Pulled by the Moon
Christian
- Bennie
- Beverly and Thomas Are Our Shepherds
- Death Is Nothing but a Moment's Rest
- I Wish that I Could Bring You to the Lord
- I'll See You When the Sun Goes Down
- Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving
- Margarita Is an Angel
- Pastors Are Supposed to Be the Shepherds
- Saints Are Rarely Saints, if You Know What I Mean
- Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness
- Sister Margaret's Been Here Many Years
- So Let Them Be, Who Have Had Sex with Children
- Some Would Satisfy Their Utmost Longings
Christmas
- After All, the Earth Must Wait for Spring
- Can Anyone Love Christmas Who's Not Christian
- Can the Wind Across the Snow
- Christmas Is a Holiday for Friends
- Christmas Is a Poem, a Myth, a Song
- Christmas Is a Time for Love and Fun
- Christmas Is for Cowards, Too, and Thieves
- Cold Comfort in the Chastity of Sorrow
- Could There Be Angels Waiting in the Wings
- Each Year Again the Gifts Are Given Gladly
- Eager for a Miracle
- Glad Tidings Are a Coat of Many Colors
- Here There Are No Hearts Not Touched by Joy
- How Lovely 'Tis to Take This Time
- I'm Your Christmas Tree, All Brightly Lit
- If All Were Now as It Was When
- Mary at Midnight, the Babe in Her Arms
- May You Feel Such Love as Lights the Morning
- May You Find This Christmas Inner Peace
- Maybe Underneath the Bed Is Sadness
- Maybe We Need Another Miracle
- Meaning Has No Meaning Without Love
- Meaning Is a Measure of Repose
- Merry Christmas to My Love
- Merry Christmas to the One I Love
- Midnight Miracles Make Quiet Mornings
- Miracles Have a Way of Making News
Easter
- Believe, Believe in the Power of Love
- Each Finds Happiness in Each
- Each of Us Eventually Will Be
- Each of Us Must Know You Personally
- Each Moment Is a Miracle
- Each Soul Is like a River Bearing Love
- Easter and Passover Are About
Jewish
- Caleb Makes It to the Promised Land
- Every Friday Night I Bless My Children
- My Home Is Here, America
- Time After Time They Come to Destroy Us
Hanukkah
High Holidays
- Holiness and Faith Are the Rewards
- How Might I, in Faith, Do as You Ask
- O Lord, Our Hope and Our Redeemer
- Reason Ought Not Be the Enemy
- Reason Says, of Course, that There's No Book
- Remember as You Scour Your Soul for Sin
- Repentence Is Quite Different from Regret
- Return Each Year to Test the Ancient Waters
- Revelation Leads to Revolution
- Revelation Strikes You as Absurd
- Righteousness Ought Not Be for One's Self
- Ritual Recalls the Revelation
- Rosh Hashanah Opens to the Page
- Rosh Hashanah Opens Up the Book
- Ye of Little Faith, You're Welcome Here
- Year After Year, You Promise to Atone
- Yearning Is a Function of Atonement
- Years Pass, the Sins Remain
- Yom Kippur Remains a Day of Morning
- You Are Not, Will Not, Do Not What You Dream
- You Cannot Get Away from Being Plural
- You Cannot Think the Book of Life Will Close
- You Pray Not for Yourself Alone but All
- You Pray to Be Included in the Book
- You Wonder Whether Fate Is Accidental
- You'd Like a Shot at Serious Redemption
Passover
- Easter and Passover Go Together
- Easter and Passover Are About
- Easter and Pesach, Eternally Linked
- How Best Can We Remember We Were Slaves
- How Could the Lord for Our Sake Part the Sea
- Palpably, You Are in This Room
- Pass Over Me, Dear Lord, Please Pass Me By
- Passion Is the Wine, and Love, the Glass
- Passover Celebrates That Glorious Day
- Passover Seders Are like the Night Sky
- Why Do I Remain in Exile
Muslim
Eid Al-Adha
- Each of Us Must Sacrifice Ourselves
- Each Sacrifices What the Heart Loves Most
- Even Sacrifice May Not Be Pure
- Every Moment Sings of Love and Beauty
Ramadan
- Each Fast Is like a Cleansing of the Soul
- Each Moment Is like Sunlight on the Heart
- Eid Is Bittersweet
- Erase My Soul
- Estimated Wait Time Is Forever
- Evening, and at Last the Fast Is Over
- Every Moment Equally Is Holy
- Ramadan Reminds Us that the World
- Rapture Comes Most Easily Within
- Read the Holy Book as Though Asleep
- Reason Doesn't Travel Well
- Reason Is No Cause for Revelation
- Reason Without Faith Is Pure Relation
- Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart
- Remember, Please, the Reason for Your Fasting
- Remember, Too, the Holy Month of Fasting
- Remember When You Fast to Take It Slow
- Return to the Sweet Discipline of Faith
- Right Action Is the Mother of Right Feeling
- Righteousness Is Not Self-Righteousness
- Righteousness Remains the Rock of Faith
- Rights Are Not Equivalent to Freedom
- Roam Anywhere You Wish, and Then Return
Non-Denominational
- Aaron
- Accidents Are Rarely Accidental
- Agostino
- Audrey
- Bless This Day the Joy of Life
- Blessings Do Not Come in Bite-Sized Portions
- Bobbie Jo Can't Be with Us
- Children Who Die Are Not Really Gone
- Death Is like a Car
- Every Garden Needs Diversity
- Every Holiday Makes Life More Special
- Every Religion Has Blood on Its Hands
- Faith Is What One Cannot Know
- Forty-Six3
- God, if There Is One, Looks Down upon the World
- Grace Comes Unexpectedly
- Grateful Angels Sing at Heaven's Gates
- Gratitude, like Love, Is Part of Being
- Hallelujah! I'm Pregnant! Praise the Lord!
- Happy Holidays
- Have a Little Sunshine in Your Heart
- Hell Has Little Hope of Happiness
- Holidays Are Rarely Holy Days
- Holiness Is Never Wholly Holy
- How Might One Untie the Knot
- I Cannot Think You're Not Alive Somewhere
- I Look Across
- I Sing to You When Words Are Not Enough
- I Want to Go Home
- I'm Married to This Muslim Arab
- If Reason Is the Word, Faith's the Music
- Jordyn
- Little Do the Others Know
- Little Do You Know How Much You Love Me
- Lynnette likes Tigers, Roses, Navy Blue
- May We Learn to Undergo Your Love
- Melanie
- O Lord, Help Me Be a Burden
- Often the Absence of Angels Seems Eerie
- On Psalms 113-118
- Our Grandson Tyler Was Just Over Seven
- People Who Are Certain Are a Curtain
- Perhaps Christ Rose from the Dead; Perhaps He Didn't
- Praised Be Those Who Worship God with Love
- Proverbs on Faith
- Recently I Dreamed I Talked to You
- Religions Live in a Crowded Neighborhood
- Selves Are Quite the Opposite of Souls
- Seventy-Three Refocuses on Love
- So Shall the Singer Serve the Song
- Some Are Picked for Pleasure, Some for Pain
- Song for Psalm 114: A Prayer for a Child Born in America
- Souls Seem to Stay the Same; the Body Ages
- Suppose There Were No Special Times for Greetings
- Thank You for All That You Have Given
- Thank You for the Gift of Being Thankful
- Thank You for the Gift of Life
- Thank You for the Gift of Understanding2
- Thank You for the Harvest and the Healing
- The Gift of Being Cannot Be a Given
- The Lord Has Been Merciful to Me
- The Lord Is the Lord of All Nations
- The Wave Without Becomes a Wave Within
- Thirty-Eight Is More than Just a Number
- When I Pray to You, Words Are Not Enough
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