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Author has written 76 stories for Religion, Life, Friendship, Love, General, Nature, Song, and Haiku. ~ "... to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair." (Isaiah 61:3) ~ This account contains my religious poetry. You can find my main account under the name of Eirien. Avatar image copyright Edraith. It symbolizes God's love and light dwelling in our hearts, being stronger than darkness and despair. | |||||||||
1. Five Senses » reviewsExperiencing God with every one of your senses... These haikus do not adhere to the 5-7-5 rule.Complete - Haiku - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 5 - Words: 71 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 10-16-09 - Published: 10-16-092. Fünf Sinne » reviewsGott mit allen fünf Sinnen erfahren... Die 5-7-5-Regel habe ich hier nicht beachtet.Complete - Haiku - Fiction Rated: K+ - German - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 5 - Words: 66 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 10-16-09 - Published: 10-16-093. All I have left reviewsMy tears belong to you.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 81 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-18-08 - Published: 11-18-084. Skylla und Charybdis reviewsZwischen Wut und Schuld ...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - German - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-26-06 - Published: 11-26-065. Broken reviewsI'm broken.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 6-3-06 - Published: 6-3-066. Crossed Expectations » reviewsA collection of haikus and tankas on spiritual themes.Haiku - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 13 - Words: 323 - Reviews: 53 - Updated: 6-3-06 - Published: 5-14-057. Tuch aus Tränen » reviewsEine Sammlung von Haikus und Tankas mit spirituellen Themen.Haiku - Fiction Rated: K+ - German - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 3 - Words: 55 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 5-22-06 - Published: 11-13-058. Bleed On My Living Death reviewsRedemption.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-7-06 - Published: 4-7-069. A Cutter's Canticles reviewsBeauty for ashes. Blood for blades.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 102 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 2-26-06 - Published: 2-26-0610. Wie die Ameise reviewsTrotz aller Hindernisse erreicht sie ihr Ziel ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - German - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 128 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 2-10-06 - Published: 2-10-0611. Manger reviewsChristmas for the broken and lost.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-22-05 - Published: 11-23-0512. Among the Tombs reviews“Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.” [Mark 5:5]Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-22-05 - Published: 10-22-0513. Shipwrecked reviewsDon't let me sink again!Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 76 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 7-18-05 - Published: 7-18-0514. Glaube Hoffnung Liebe » reviewsDrei Akrosticha. [Wer nicht weiß, was das ist, lese die Anfangsbuchstaben jeder Zeile von oben nach unten ...]Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - German - General - Chapters: 3 - Words: 112 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-14-05 - Published: 5-14-0515. Daisy » reviewsGod's love and healing for a flower of His. Two acrostics.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 2 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 4-9-05 - Published: 4-9-0516. Faith of a Child reviewsIn church today the kids had a performance and I was deeply touched watching a little girl worship. I wish I still had faith like that …Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 131 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 12-24-04 - Published: 12-24-0417. Come reviews“Come and breathe your life in me, for inside me there's only death.” My personal Christmas song, influenced by Evanescence I guess.Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 12-21-04 - Published: 12-21-0418. Ideas ante res reviews“In the unseen I kneel by your bed” ... “Universalia sunt realia” The unseen things are reality ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 256 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 11-14-04 - Published: 11-14-0419. Sacred reviewsLove is waiting ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 194 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 11-14-04 - Published: 11-14-0420. Truth reviewsA short piece that came to me in a dream, complete with a melody. The whole song was longer, this is all I remember.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 22 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-0421. The Victim's Fault reviewsOne of the lies people who have been abused fall prey to: that it was somehow their fault. The speaker in this poem is God, “the enemy” refers to Satan.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 266 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 10-15-04 - Published: 10-15-0422. Blood Brother » reviewsWhy Jesus is my blood brother ... [Chapter 2 is a testimony that explains the poem in depth.]Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 491 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 8-17-04 - Published: 8-11-0423. Our Secret reviewsHurt exchanged for hope, death exchanged for love ... our secret – it has changed my life.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 114 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 8-13-04 - Published: 8-13-0424. Blutsbruder reviewsKann ich nicht zusammenfassen, man muss es halt einfach lesen.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - German - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 144 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 8-8-04 - Published: 8-8-0425. Speak reviewsLord, You alone can speak life into death. – What went through my mind when I read the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 158 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-28-04 - Published: 7-28-0426. The Unseen Clothed in Words of Flesh reviewsThis compares receiving God's love, receiving Christ as your Saviour to the sexual act. Might seem daring or irreverent to some, but if you think about it you might see the parallels ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 83 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-28-04 - Published: 7-28-0427. Stigmatized reviewsTen years ago, in my 'mystic phase', I read a book about stigmatization, i.e. people who receive the wounds of Christ. This poem is the result of my fascination with that, an attempt to see from the perspective of a stigmatized person and make sense of itComplete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-27-04 - Published: 7-27-0428. Then reviewsWhat will heaven be like?Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 32 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-24-04 - Published: 7-24-0429. Xmess? reviewsWhat has become of Christmas?Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 7-23-04 - Published: 7-23-0430. Kyrie eleison reviewsTear me out of this nightmare – come and rape me with your peace.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 63 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-21-04 - Published: 7-21-0431. The Pull of the Sea reviewsFear and fascination ... the sea outside and the sea inside of me ...Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 69 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-18-04 - Published: 7-18-0432. The Highest Accolade reviewsDo you ever feel rejected and neglected by those you try to show love to? Jesus feels it all the time. As we are learning to love unconditionally, sharing in His pain can be the highest honour ... and yet the greatest agony.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 61 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-18-04 - Published: 7-18-0433. The Knight reviewsThere is only one way to win the battle ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Adventure/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 139 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-11-04 - Published: 7-11-0434. Inadequacy » reviewsAs I strive to portray the beauty of nature with my insufficient words and images, so nature strives to portray the beauty of God ... and we always fall short of the original ... [I think the revised version, ch. 2, is better than the first.]Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 2 - Words: 111 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-9-04 - Published: 7-9-0435. Your Song, Teresa reviewsGoldred glare of autumn leaves ... Bernini's statue of the mystic Teresa of Avila ... a longing to burn with passion ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 127 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-9-04 - Published: 7-9-0436. The Star Seeker reviewsYearning for God ... fanned into flame by a dream where I met Jesus face to face.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 7-6-04 - Published: 7-6-0437. To Depression reviewsKind of a negative ode or something like that. Don't know what to say about this one – you just have to read it. Another old one by the way.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-3-04 - Published: 7-3-0438. Air Mail » reviewsHave you ever found it frustrating that God is so invisible and impalpable, and often so silent as well? Ever been longing for some kind of touch from Him?Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 2 - Words: 98 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 7-3-04 - Published: 7-3-0439. Song of Paul reviewsPaul the Apostle. His life story. But not only his ...Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 116 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 7-3-04 - Published: 7-3-0440. Recovery reviewsMy heart, unhealed by place and time – I send it on a journey ...Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-30-04 - Published: 6-30-0441. Open Arms reviewsGod's solace in the midst of heartbreak. Written when a relationship had broken apart after two years together.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 142 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-29-04 - Published: 6-29-0442. The Adulteress reviewsIt's about spiritual adultery ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 244 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-27-04 - Published: 6-27-0443. The Heart of Man reviewsSomeone once said that there was a vacuum in our hearts, destined to hold infinity, and nothing else could satisfy the yearning that drives us around on the quest for something to fill that emptiness ...Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 177 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-26-04 - Published: 6-26-0444. Then and Now reviewsExchanging one kind of love for another. They need not be mutually exclusive, in this case they were.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-26-04 - Published: 6-26-0445. Chivalry reviewsAll my life I've dreamed of knights in shining armour ... What is real chivalry? A song written years ago.Complete - Song - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 181 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-25-04 - Published: 6-25-0446. Love Letters reviewsAren't they hidden everywhere in creation – love letters from our Creator?Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-25-04 - Published: 6-25-0447. Eucharist reviewsRevelations during a morning service ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 119 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-25-04 - Published: 6-25-0448. A Prayer reviewsVery inventive title, but that describes it best. An acrostic poem. [If you don't know what that is, look at the first letter of each line ...]Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 45 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-19-04 - Published: 6-19-0449. The Morning Sun reviewsA very old poem of mine, written about 13 years ago. It sounds childlike, but this might be done on intention ... Remember William Blake's “Songs of Innocence” – and you'll certainly find enough “songs of experience” among my poetry as well.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-19-04 - Published: 6-19-0450. Im Schatten Deiner Flügel reviewsEine Übersetzung meines Gedichtes “In the Shadow of Your Wings”. Ich finde Übersetzungen immer schlechter als das Original ... Ach ja, und bei anderen Formatierungsmöglichkeiten als FP sie bietet, hat das Gedicht wirklich die Form einer Taube.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - German - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 108 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 6-17-04 - Published: 6-17-0451. In the Shadow of Your Wings reviewsThe Holy Spirit touches in ways so different from what we expect or imagine ... A shape poem – and with decent formatting it does actually look like a dove.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 124 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 6-17-04 - Published: 6-17-0452. Christ Crucified reviewsThe wounds that hurt the most ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-15-04 - Published: 6-15-0453. Essential reviewsActually, there's only one thing that is really essential to my poetry ...Complete - General - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 85 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-15-04 - Published: 6-15-0454. Love Petals in the Wind reviewsHow God longs to enfold us in His love. An outpouring of His tenderness written for and addressed to my best friend.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 174 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-12-04 - Published: 6-12-0455. Bird of Prayer reviewsWhen you know your friend is suffering somewhere out of reach, possibly hurting themselves, and all you can do is pray.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 6-12-04 - Published: 6-12-0456. My Dream Man reviewsAn acrostic. [If you're not sure what that is, have a look at the first letter of each line.]Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 101 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-12-04 - Published: 6-12-0457. Tree reviewsOk people, this is supposed to be a shape poem. On my typewriter, or on my computer with Courier fonts, it is a perfect tree, as you might guess from the stem where all words have four letters etc. Here, thanks to FP formatting ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 162 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-9-04 - Published: 6-9-0458. AD 30 reviewsHätte ich im Jahre 30 leben wollen? Jesus leibhaftig begegnen? Wie wäre es gewesen?Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - German - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 173 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 6-4-04 - Published: 6-4-0459. Lebensbund reviewsDer wichtigste Bund, den ich in meinem Leben geschlossen habe.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - German - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 93 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 6-1-04 - Published: 6-1-0460. Unclutch reviewsSurrendering the greatest wish of my life into God's hands. This is harder than giving up my life. Yet it must be, for whatever I take into my own hands, my weakness only spoils and breaks.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-30-04 - Published: 5-30-0461. A Better Place reviewsI would give, endure, be willing to suffer everything to see my best friend accept Jesus as her Saviour, to be together with her forever in Heaven. [For those who have read my Candle poem: THIS is my greatest wish.]Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 327 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-30-04 - Published: 5-30-0462. Candle reviewsI am aflame with one desire, one wish, for whose fulfilment I would give, I would suffer everything. A shape poem.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 193 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-26-04 - Published: 5-26-0463. Watershed reviewsAbout the moment when, after a severe crisis of faith, I made the decision to follow Christ, to stake my all on Him, no matter what suffering and sacrifice this might entail.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 169 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 5-23-04 - Published: 5-23-0464. Godspel reviewsAnglo Saxon for “good news”. This was written for my English professor when he was suffering from severe depression. For all who are depressed it's not the depression that ultimately counts or defines who you are ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 278 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-20-04 - Published: 5-20-0465. Ein Wort von Dir reviews‚Das geknickte Rohr wird Er nicht zerbrechen.’ Die verletzte Blume wird Er nicht zermalmt werden lassen. Tautropfen des Erbarmens fallen auf unsere Qual.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - German - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 5-7-04 - Published: 5-7-0466. One Word reviews‘The bruised reed He will not break.’ The bruised flower he will not allow to be broken. Dewdrops of compassion fall on our anguish.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 246 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-7-04 - Published: 5-7-0467. Poiema reviewsAnother sonnet. Poiema is the Greek word for both creation, workmanship and poem. Each one of us is God’s unique poem.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 125 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-7-04 - Published: 5-7-0468. Home reviewsA sonnet. After the most discouraging day of failure, there are open Arms to receive us, there is a home of welcome …Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 107 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 5-7-04 - Published: 5-7-0469. In Your Hands reviewsSometimes we seem to experience God as hard, even hostile, allowing us to be exposed to suffering almost too heavy to bear. I wrote this during a period of extreme insomnia, but have been able to relate to the feelings again over the past weeks ...Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 372 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-5-04 - Published: 5-5-0470. Birthday reviewsA kind of parable on salvation.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 296 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-2-04 - Published: 5-2-0471. Golden Eyes reviewsA villanelle inspired by Mel Gibson's “Passion of the Christ”.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 155 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 4-23-04 - Published: 4-23-0472. As the Deer reviews“... pants for streams of water” [Ps. 42:1]. Longing for a touch from God. I wrote this in my mystic phase, so I guess it's influenced by mystic literature.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 4-20-04 - Published: 4-20-0473. If reviewsTrying to trust God's sovereign plan in the midst of failure and selfreproach.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 164 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 4-12-04 - Published: 4-12-0474. Follow Me reviewsIn the furnace of pain, in the crucible of agony, Jesus has been there before me.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 77 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 4-12-04 - Published: 4-12-0475. Paradox reviewsGod is closer than a lover, yet further than the stars. The paradox of His impalpable presence.Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 105 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 4-11-04 - Published: 4-11-0476. I Need You reviewsA prayer. What am I without His transforming touch?Complete - Religion - Fiction Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 95 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 4-11-04 - Published: 4-11-04
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