Creating Good Poems About Christ

By Amanda Baird


Creating good poems about Christ may be interesting if one is well acquitted with the life and teachings of Jesus. Jesus used parables in his teachings most of the times. For instance, on matters of forgiveness, he used the parable of the lost son to clearly urge people to forgive one another.

In order to demonstrate how this may be made possible, it is necessary to look at some of the parables, then analyze how a good poem may be derived from the parable. When Jesus wanted to teach on forgiveness, he used the parable of the prodigal son and the parable of the two debtors. In the parable of the prodigal son, a man had two sons.

The man had a big land and several animals. He also had many workers who were helping him to take care of the wealth. He lived with his two sons harmoniously but one day, the younger son went to his father and demanded that the father to divide to him part of the wealth that belongs to him. The father went ahead and gave him his share. The son left home and went to another town after selling the wealth he was given. He squandered the whole money and was left with nothing. He then went back to his father and asked for forgiveness.

His father forgave him and welcomed him back home as his son even though he had disobeyed the father. This shows that people should always forgive others even if they have wronged you. A poet in writing a poem on about Christ may consider using the parable too to communicate their message. One may not necessarily use the prodigal son, but may use a story to depict forgiveness.

The background to this parable may be summarized as follows. Jesus was invited to for a dinner together with his disciples. Then something strange happened as they were eating.

He then anointed it using a very expensive perfume. Jesus then told the parable inform of a question. He asked them supposed a lender had two debtors. One owed him five hundred Denarii while the other owed him fifty Denarii.

Two people owned different amount of money to one lender. The first person owned much money as compared to the second person. The lender then decided to overwrite the debts for both of them. Jesus then asked them among the debtors who was more grateful. The disciples answered that the one who owed much debt would be more grateful than the other. Jesus then related the parable to the circumstance. The prostitute was more grateful than the other disciple that is why she behaved that way.

That is the reason why he kissed the feet of Jesus and went ahead to anoint it. This parable also may be used to compose a poem. The other teaching of Jesus which may be used in composing good poems about Christ is the sermon on the mountain.




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