Best Ash Wednesday Poems

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday, the day to confess and repent
As we enter the solemn season of Lent
The ashes remind us that "Dust thou art"
And one day from this world we will depart.

Worldwide, the faithful honor this tradition
With devotional hearts and sincere contrition
But, sadly, some people are...

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Ashes of humanity
Scattered and lingered in hearts of purity
Hallowed and spirited within the psyche of infinity

Weaving with man's joy and sorrows
Entwined with lattices of honey yellows
Drifting in clouds of human form
Numeric and linguistic crypts of cuneiform
Endearing are thoughts and words, not jive
Sprinkled ashes etched on...

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Finally went to church today-Ash Wednesday
I went for company, communion and to pray
Liked the new people, what priest had to say
I really felt like I was forgiven for sins today

It used to be only God, hard to get Jesus into
My life and prayers, now it's...

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confronted with the truth
I scurried in my ashes

searching for reasons
reasons I was spared

light came slowly
beckoning my soul

"walk with me" He said
"I'll tell you a story-
I hope you have time
your remaining life
it will take to tell"

listening each day
wonders await me

pictures seem fuzzy
then slowly reveal

His path filled...

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Ash Wednesday reminds vain man
That each must slay false pride's ascend.

This day we note a pious practice
Once learnt by rote in simple gist.

Man is mere dust that is alive
In a brief trust, by grace to thrive.

An ancient lore bears repeating:
From times before, repentance flings.

Man is...

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As many Catholics make a trip to church
on this particular day which marks the beginning –
Lent, in its threshold of another liturgical event,
they wear that smudge on their foreheads.

This calls everyone to a conversion journey
it means turning to all who suffer in their lives;
fasting and...

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We pray to you LORD this Ash Wednesday,

                            To thank you for this hoard of plenty,
  ...

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Leaves from palm trees burn,
Die into black ash. 

Like these leaves move from life,
To death, the lamb of heaven is slayed. 

The light of the world, 
Extinguished by his created world. 

His precious blood spilt, 
His anointed head crowned with a thorny crown.

Ashes from ashes,...

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A pleasant cool settles
the ground flecked 
by sunlight drizzling down
through a tall canopy
of trees. A slight wind 
tickles the top leaves
with whispers. 
All seems idyllic.

Yet forty years ago 
on a Wednesday,
fire blasted the bush here
with a wall of furnace heat.
A blackened wasteland
was all that was...

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In the realm of eternal consciousness an idea was formed...

In the beginning of all creation the dust begun...

In the mist of the vast cosmos the dust transformed...

In the breath of the Creator you were born......

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Opt to see truth with keen eyes sound,
Note dust from dust our common state.
Ask to know proof as feelings ground,
Sense what to trust through spheres of fate;
Heed the call now to know what's right.
Work then dear soul the path faith takes,
Embrace just how love brings...

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a sign. of the cross
not
one of loss
but
    new life again
through
    His pain
for us...

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Ashes,
Black, gritty, sooty signs
Painted on the foreheads
Of humanity parading about.
My thumb would be black
For several days following
The signing of so many foreheads,
The dark soot engrained
Within my right thumb print.

Ash Wednesday is a magnet
That draws people, compels people
into the dark oak pews 
of equally darkened church...

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A day of prayer and fasting 
To show the Lord our love is everlasting
We promise to sacrifice a luxury or a pleasure during Lent 
It is forty days well spent 
We will not partake in what we sacrifice until Eastertide 
Hold on, we are in...

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Ash Wednesday, one day to reflect
why Christ our souls would resurrect.	
Good it is to be in accord,
     time spent in fasting and prayer,
     repenting of sin and despair.
Good that forgiveness is implored,
     not...

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