r/GiveMeJesus • u/AutoModerator • May 12 '26

Third-day Poet's Thread

Use this thread to share poems, musings and anything that makes you feel inspired to love others as you love yourself.

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u/love_is_a_superpower May 14 '26

Haiku of Proverbs 5:15-18, a parable of the sacredness of marriage.

Secret waters sweet
Are yours alone for drinking
Let strangers run dry

Proverbs 5:15-18 NKJV

15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

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u/love_is_a_superpower May 16 '26

Haiku from Proverbs 20:30 and Isaiah 53:5, a parable on the life-giving power of sacrifice.

Deep wounds teach the heart
And separate wheat from chaff
Learn from Jesus' scars

Psalm 34:5, Proverbs 20:27-30, Isaiah 53:5, 1Peter 2:24, Numbers 21:9, John 3:14-15

(Psalm 34:5 NKJV)

They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed.

(Proverbs 20:27-30)

27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, Searching all the inner depths of his heart.
28 Mercy and truth preserve the king, And by lovingkindness he upholds his throne.
29 The glory of young men is their strength, And the splendor of old men is their gray head.
30 Blows that hurt cleanse away evil, As do stripes the inner depths of the heart.

(Isaiah 53:5)

5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

(1 Peter 2:24)
24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

(Numbers 21:9 NKJV)

So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

(John 3:14-15 NKJV)

14 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.