By Lecchi Eke
On Inside Literature, we cannot let a festival as important as the commemoration of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ pass without a mention here. We searched out some Easter Poems to gladden your heart and give you the connection you need with the Reason for the Season.
The onus is also on us to educate the yet to be educated on the Reason for the Season through the Season’s poems.
At Easter
By Ada George (a budding poet)
At Easter
Herod will kill Peter
He’s not clueless
That Peter’s powerless
But he’s ignorant
That the church is intolerant
Abuses against them
Pulls their Saviour’s hem
And their Redeemer’s mighty
But their enemy is tiny
The church cried
Their Redeemer cared
So Herod died
And Peter lived.
Love So Real
By Chinedu Nkere (a Reverend gentleman)
I cannot comprehend it
Neither can I defend it
Yet He did extend it
And I see no end to it
Love so real
So great a God He is
Much weight the crown of His
Yet left His throne f’ beneath
To save His own on earth
Love so real
Chose He discomfort of hell
To give man comfort of heaven
Yet went He through the knell
To bring us to our haven
Love so real
What a love so real
Redeemed man from the bleak
So true to believe
Yes a good life we live
Love so real
This love I must reciprocate
His sacrifice I appropriate.
Love so real
No Coloured Eggs
By Joanna Fuchs
No colored eggs
Or bunnies here,
Just deep-felt love
For Christ, so dear.
No Easter baskets
Full of fluff,
No jelly beans
And other stuff.
No superior looks,
No strife, no fights
With those who keep
The worldly rites.
No, no condemnation
For those who do,
Just prayers too, for them
To love Him too.
Easter Joy
By Joanna Fuchs
Jesus came to e
To show us how to live:
To put others first,
To love and to give –
Then set He ’bout His work,
Sent Him by God to do;
Himself took our punishment
To make us clean and new!
He could have saved Himself –
Calling angels from above,
Yet He chose to pay sin’s price;
He paid it out of love.
Now we know our earthly death,
Like His, is just a rest!
Forever we will be with Him
In heaven, where life is best.
So for Jesus we live our lives,
And think of Him in all we do.
Thank You Savior! Thank You Lord!
Help us Lord to love like You!
Easter Gate
By Joanna Fuchs
Jesus came to show us how
To live and love on earth, right now.
Then He died to erase our sin,
The Pearly Gate to let us in.
Raised from death, Jesus’ our guide
Through our death to the other side;
Believe in Jesus, and you will be,
Written in the Book of Life forever.
Easter means, in heaven, life,
Free from sadness, free from strife.
If your name is in God’s journal,
You are a’sured of life eternal.
A Second Chance
By Joanna Fuchs
God always wants the best for us,
But in Eden we sinned; we really
blew it.
We disobeyed God’s direct decree;
We separated from Him, and we knew it
You’d think we’d learn to behave ourselves,
But through all time, we just kept
doing it;
Piling wrong on top of wrong,
Our punishment-we kept accruing it.
Jesus came and changed all that;
He paid the price for all our sins;
When we repent and believe in Him,
We change, and a better life begins.
Easter stands for a second chance
For us to choose to put things right;
If we repent, and really believe,
Our record is polished clean and bright.
When Jesus rose from the dead
back then,
He guaranteed our eternal life,
Reunited with God in heaven,
Free from tears and fears and strife.
Easter ensures for us paradise
For all of us, for you and me;
We’re reconciled to our Lord and
King
For now and all eternity.
On Easter Morn
By Joanna Fuchs
On Easter morn, we celebrate our
Saviour;
Whatever people seek in Him, they
find.
In history, there has never been another
So holy, sacrificial, good and kind.
His resurrection makes us all
Immortal;
In heaven, we’ll be together with
our King.
Eternally we’ll share in all His blessings;
Happy Easter! Jesus Christ is everything!
Happy Resurrection!!!
