Show Me Mercy: two poems by Ferdinan Ngomba Vevanje

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Gracious God                                 

Special and influential is your grace.

God’s strength and ability is his grace.

Even in weakness God remains strong.

God’s caring capability depicts his grace.

His ways and push constitute his grace.

God’s grace goes beyond his niceness.

His grace a special mark of uniqueness.

God’s grace an embodiment of mercies.                      

Every morning a fresh dose of mercies

Available for mankind to graze on.

If not for your mercies many will die

If not for your graciousness life is not

Your grace gives me hope to grow

Your grace an aid to triumph over sin

Worldliness frowns at your grace

I need God’s grace more than money.

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Show Me Mercy

I crave your mercy gravely.

While I live in this dynamic life cave.

You show mercy even to the brave.

In pity I ask mercy for being knave,

Need mercy at the crush of sin waves.

At the impulse of your mercy,

Sincere sinner feels much at ease.

Merciful One, be merciful unto me.        

Ferdinan Ngomba Vevanje lives Buea, in the South-West Region of Cameroon.

He is a fledgling poet. He has an immense passion for prose poetry, ballads,

epic poetry, sonnets, odes, haiku, and acrostic poetry, just to name a few.

His passion for poetry as a whole has made him see poetry as not just an art

but a lifestyle “depictional” science wherein he thinks poetry is experience

and experience makes poetry. One of his poems was published by Emerge

Magazine titled “Mount Cameroon National Park (MCNP).”

June 2025 issue