The Obit by Ethelbert Miller

The Obit by Ethelbert Miller

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Book Poems, Poems, Poetry

After reading my obituary
folks went to their local bookstores
looking for my books. For a few days I was often quoted
like Baldwin and
people went looking for T-shirts with my image. My
books rested on the desks of teachers filled with
bookmarks, notes, and underlined words. Someone said
a critic once said Ethelbert’s poems failed because they
were filled with too much desire and despair. The world
doesn’t need another Neruda. Ethelbert in his last
interview said
“Love is a fragile thing and will always suffocate in
darkness.”
Love is More Thicker Than Forget

Love is More Thicker Than Forget

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Love Poems, Poems, Poetry

love is more thicker than forget

 E. E. Cummings

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
Copyright Credit: E.E. Cummings, “[love is more thicker than forget]” from Complete Poems 1904-1962
20 Letter Words

20 Letter Words

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Emerald Book Club, Vocabulary

Are you into long words with lost of weird letters and pronounciations? me too. Let us have a look at 20 letter words to rewire your brain and confuse your grammar

nonsuperparamagnetic

antiferroquadrupolar

paleobiogeographical

hyperlipoproteinemic

monotonic increasing

magnetogravitational

anthropogeographical

counterinterrogation

deoxyribonucleotidic

myxofibrosarcomatous

kinetofragminophoran

paleozoogeographical

postzygodiapophyseal

paleoanthropological

radiocinematographic

magnetoferroelectric

hypotriglyceridaemic

evapotranspirational

magnetofluidodynamic

heterosupramolecular

electrometallurgical

counterinformational

counterstereotypical

supercalifragilistic

immunofluoropositive

immunofluororeactive

phytopharmacological

antitransglutaminase

immunogerontological

nonchondrodysplastic

electrotechnological

chronopotentiometric

hyperphosphorylating

autohydrogenotrophic

mesembryanthemaceous

bionanotechnological

antidisestablishment

agrobiotechnological

hepatocarcinogenetic

heterotransplantable

tauroursodeoxycholic

hepatocardiomuscular

spondyloarthropathic

glossolabiolaryngeal

gammaproteobacterial

interscapulothoracic

ethnopharmacological

magnetoplasmadynamic

trifluoromethylative

electrochronographic

antipsychoanalytical

Positive Words Starting With A

Positive Words Starting With A

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Emerald Book Club, Vocabulary

Studies have shown that people who use more positive words in their day-to-day conversations tend to have a more optimistic outlook on life. The benefit of using positive words is that it uplifts both the speaker and the reader, fostering stronger emotional connections. positive language encourages open communication and deeper relationships. words affect the quality of our daily lives.

 

Vocabulary Tuesdays

Vocabulary Tuesdays

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Emerald Book Club, Vocabulary

Vocabulary Tuesdays at Emerald Book Club

At Emerald Book Club, Tuesdays are dedicated to celebrating the power, beauty, and versatility of language. Vocabulary Tuesdays is a weekly initiative designed to help readers, writers, and word lovers expand their linguistic horizons in a fun, interactive, and community-driven way.

Whether you’re building your vocabulary, exploring new languages, or simply enjoying the richness of expression, Vocabulary Tuesdays offers a welcoming space for learning, creativity, and connection.

✨📚 Vocabulary Tuesdays at Emerald Book Club 📚✨

Every Tuesday, we explore the wonderful world of words, language, and expression! 🌍📝

💡 What’s in store:
🔤 Discover new and exciting vocabulary & phrases
🎲 Play creative word games and brain teasers
⚔️ Compete in friendly vocabulary battles
🌎 Explore words from different languages and cultures

Whether you’re a wordsmith, a language lover, or simply curious to expand your mind, Vocabulary Tuesdays is the place to learn, laugh, and connect—with words and people alike. 💬✨

Join us and make your Tuesdays word-tastic! 💚

What Happens on Vocabulary Tuesdays?

Each week, we dive into a range of activities that bring language to life:

1. Learn New Words and Phrases

Members are introduced to fresh vocabulary—modern, classic, unusual, or culturally significant words that expand understanding and sharpen communication skills.

2. Word Games and Language Challenges

From puzzles and anagrams to timed challenges and quizzes, our word games are designed to spark curiosity and encourage playful learning.

3. Friendly Vocabulary Battles

Members can challenge one another in light-hearted competitions to test speed, memory, and creativity with words. It’s a fun way to build confidence and improve recall.

4. Explore Global Languages and Cultures

Each session includes opportunities to discover meaningful words from other languages, broadening cultural awareness and deepening appreciation for linguistic diversity.

Word of the Day

A highlight of Vocabulary Tuesdays is the Word of the Day, where members are invited to share a word they love—along with its meaning and why it resonates with them.
Throughout the day, submissions are collected, and at the end of the evening, the community votes for the most inspiring word of the week.

This feature allows members to express themselves personally and thoughtfully, turning language learning into a shared experience.

✨📚 Vocabulary Tuesdays: Word of the Day! 📚✨

Every Tuesday, we celebrate words that inspire, challenge, and connect us. 💬

🪶 Your Turn!
What’s a word that means something special to you?
Share your favorite word, its meaning, and tell us why it matters to you. 💚

Let’s celebrate language—one word at a time! 🌍

Why Join Vocabulary Tuesdays?

Vocabulary Tuesdays is more than a learning session—it’s a space to:

  • Strengthen communication skills

  • Challenge your mind and improve memory

  • Engage with a vibrant community of readers

  • Discover new ways of expressing ideas

  • Learn through play, creativity, and conversation

Whether you’re a lifelong language enthusiast or someone looking to grow step by step, you’ll find a warm and supportive atmosphere waiting for you.

How to Participate

Vocabulary Tuesdays is open to all Emerald Book Club members across our online platforms. Simply join us on Discord, WhatsApp, or Facebook every Tuesday to take part in discussions, games, and the Word of the Day.

We welcome you to share, learn, and explore with us—one word at a time.

These Inward Trials

These Inward Trials

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Poems, Prayer Poems, Religious Poems

These Inward Trials

I asked the Lord, that I might grow
In faith, and love, and every grace;
Might more of His salvation know,
And seek more earnestly His face.

T’was He who taught me thus to pray
and He I trust has answered prayer,
but it has been in such a way
it almost drove me to despair.

I hoped that in some favored hour
At once He’d answer my request,
and by His love’s constraining power
Subdue my sins, and give me rest.

Instead of this, He made me feel
the hidden evils of my heart;
And let the angry powers of hell
Assault my soul in every part.

Yea more, with His own hand He seemed
Intent to aggravate my woe;
Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,
Blasted my gourds, and laid me low.

‘Lord, why is this?’ I trembling cried,
‘Wilt thou pursue Thy worm to death?’
‘This in this way,’ the Lord replied,
‘I answer prayer for grace and faith.

These inward trials I employ
From self and pride to set thee free;
And break thy schemes of earthly joy,
That thou mayst seek thy all in Me.’

John Newton

A Prayer for Victory over Temptation

A Prayer for Victory over Temptation

by | Nov 25, 2025 | Peace Poems, Prayer Poems, Religious Poems

A Prayer for Victory over Temptation

Haste to me, Lord, when this fool-heart of mine
Begins to gnaw itself with selfish craving;
Or, like a foul thing scarcely worth the saving,
Swoln up with wrath, desireth vengeance fine.
Haste, Lord, to help, when reason favours wrong;
Haste when thy soul, the high-born thing divine,
Is torn by passion’s raving, maniac throng.

Fair freshness of the God-breathed spirit air,
Pass through my soul, and make it strong to love;
Wither with gracious cold what demons dare
Shoot from my hell into my world above;
Let them drop down, like leaves the sun doth sear,
And flutter far into the inane and bare,
Leaving my middle-earth calm, wise, and clear.
A Prayer For You

A Prayer For You

by | Nov 24, 2025 | Peace Poems, Poems, Religious Poems

A Prayer For You

 

Published by Family Friend Poems May 2018 with permission of the Author.

I lifted you to the Lord today
as I spent some time in prayer.
I asked God to be near you
and your burdens help you bear.

I could feel the Father smile
each time I called your name
because I talk to Him quite often
and my prayers are the same.

I pray that God will protect you
every minute of every day.
And to always direct your path
and guide you on your way.

I pray that God will give you joy
and shower you with His peace.
I pray He will smile down on you
so His blessings will not cease.

I pray God’s love will keep you
So you won’t waver in your faith.
And may His presence surround you
as He covers you with His grace.

Lenora McWhorter. “A Prayer For You.” 

The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis

by | Nov 24, 2025 | Poems, Prayer Poems, Religious Poems

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in self-forgetting that we find;
And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

About The Prayer

The anonymous text that is usually called the Prayer of Saint Francis (or Peace Prayer, or Simple Prayer for Peace, or Make us an Instrument of Your Peace) is a widely known Christian prayer for peace. Often associated with the Italian Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1182 – 1226), but entirely absent from his writings, the prayer in its present form has not been traced back further than 1912. Its first known occurrence was in French, in a small spiritual magazine called La Clochette (The Little Bell), published by a Catholic organization in Paris named La Ligue de la Sainte-Messe (The League of the Holy Mass). The author’s name was not given, although it may have been the founder of La Ligue, Father Esther Bouquerel. The prayer was heavily publicized during both World War I and World War II. It has been frequently set to music by notable songwriters and quoted by prominent leaders, and its broadly inclusive language has found appeal with many faiths encouraging service to others

5 Poems About Prayer

5 Poems About Prayer

by | Nov 24, 2025 | Poems, Prayer Poems, Religious Poems

Prayer is defined as a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or another deity.

Prayer has been part of human history since the earliest times, with some of the oldest literature, such as the 26th-century BC Kesh temple hymn, considered a form of prayer. It evolved across different cultures and religions, including ancient Egyptian, early Christian, and Hindu traditions, playing a central role in spiritual and cultural life and providing comfort, solace, and a connection to the divine. 

Origins and early history
Ancient origins: What is considered to be one of the earliest forms of prayer is found in the 26th-century BC Kesh temple hymn, which is a liturgy addressed to deities. Additionally, the ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts contain spells and incantations addressed to the gods.

Biblical earliest mention: In the Bible, the first mention of people praying is in Genesis 4:26, which says, “At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord”. This is considered to be the first time people addressed God after the Fall.

Early Christian prayer: Early Christians devoted themselves to prayer, a practice central to their faith from the beginning. They prayed the Lord’s Prayer, which was taught to them by Jesus and became a foundational prayer. By the 2nd century, Christians began praying in a specific direction, facing east.

In this blogpost are 5 prayer poems to boost your spirit and heal your soul. 

King David
Pslams 86

 Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

These Inward Trials

I asked the Lord, that I might grow
In faith, and love, and every grace;
Might more of His salvation know,
And seek more earnestly His face.

T’was He who taught me thus to pray
and He I trust has answered prayer,
but it has been in such a way
it almost drove me to despair.

I hoped that in some favored hour
At once He’d answer my request,
and by His love’s constraining power
Subdue my sins, and give me rest.

Instead of this, He made me feel
the hidden evils of my heart;
And let the angry powers of hell
Assault my soul in every part.

Yea more, with His own hand He seemed
Intent to aggravate my woe;
Crossed all the fair designs I schemed,
Blasted my gourds, and laid me low.

‘Lord, why is this?’ I trembling cried,
‘Wilt thou pursue Thy worm to death?’
‘This in this way,’ the Lord replied,
‘I answer prayer for grace and faith.

These inward trials I employ
From self and pride to set thee free;
And break thy schemes of earthly joy,
That thou mayst seek thy all in Me.’

John Newton

A Mother’s Love Prayer

© 

Published by Family Friend Poems January 2019 with permission of the Author.

Lord, help me be the Mother
You’ve chosen me to be,
One parent with a loving heart,
The mother of my three.

Give me wisdom and courage.
A righteous and faithful leader I’ll be,
So I may live through you, Lord,
An example of good I may be.

Teach me patience and understanding,
Grant me compassion and kindness too,
So my daughters may desire a tender heart,
Being kind, forgiving, and true.

Help me show them the way to salvation,
Lord, and the value of their souls,
So they may sustain love, hope, and faith,
That will lead them on their pathway home.

Remind me to hold them tightly
And tenderly let them go
So they might feel my comfort and love
When at times they may feel alone.

And in our body’s absence, Lord,
I’m praying they may know
The only need that they would have
Is what I’ve instilled in their heart and soul.

Jac Judy A. Campbell. “A Mother’s Love Prayer. more by Jac Judy A. Campbell

A Prayer For You

Published by Family Friend Poems May 2018 with permission of the Author.

I lifted you to the Lord today
as I spent some time in prayer.
I asked God to be near you
and your burdens help you bear.

I could feel the Father smile
each time I called your name
because I talk to Him quite often
and my prayers are the same.

I pray that God will protect you
every minute of every day.
And to always direct your path
and guide you on your way.

I pray that God will give you joy
and shower you with His peace.
I pray He will smile down on you
so His blessings will not cease.

I pray God’s love will keep you
So you won’t waver in your faith.
And may His presence surround you
as He covers you with His grace.

Lenora McWhorter. “A Prayer For You.” Family Friend Poems, May 10, 2018. https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/a-prayer-for-you

A Letter To God

Shannon Michelle Haynes

Dear God,
Can you hear me?
Can you please take my hand?
I need your loving arms around me-
I need to know you understand.

I’m feeling angry and helpless,
Even lonely and sad.
Am I wrong? Is Satan winning?
I know he wants me so bad!

Will I ever know freedom?
Will I always be bound? 
How does he enter 
When Your love’s all around?

When I can’t fight these feelings,
It helps to write them all down.
Then I find myself kneeling
With my face to the ground.

Thank You, God, once again
For lending an ear,            
And that you not only listen,
But you care enough to hear.

Please help me, dear Jesus,
To find the strength deep within,
To fight these inner demons
That try to lead me to sin.

Please help me to smile
When what I wanna do is weep,
And please stay with me tonight.
Now I lay me down to sleep.

With all my heart,
I love You!          
Amen

I hope you enjoyed this 5 poems about prayer. Is there a poem I should add to the list? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below

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