Cloaked traveler on a rocky path toward sunlit mountain peaks as beams break through storm clouds; dark evergreens line the valley, cinematic and mythic mood.

A few times a month, I send reflections on nature, mental health, and spirituality. Words to carry with you.

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  • Poem about Depression, Anxiety, and Bipolar Disorder

    Wavering Emotions – A Mood Disorder Poem What pulls me out of bed in the morning? What lies beyond the break of day? Some days find me bouncing to work, others a struggle to summon…

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  • Poem About Babies and Parenthood

    Parental Love – A Poem About Loving Your Children Days spent thinking about all the things I want to teach you all the things I can’t wait to show you but for now it’s fishing…

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  • Poem About Peace, Love, and Faith

    You Will Find – A Pastoral Poem About Life You will find peace when nothing but this moment matters… when you forgive yourself and others for the past and stop obsessing over the worries of…

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  • Poem About the Grace and Mercy of God

    The Questions of Life – A Christian Poem About Predestination and Freewill Are we free or predetermined? At the helm of the open seas or merely indentured servants? Why the trials, why the burdens if…

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  • How Anxiety Distracts Us From God

    The Noticer – A Poem About Taking Time To Witness God’s Blessings and Getting Out of Your Own Thoughts Let me be a noticer of things in your world instead of a dweller of my…

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  • Trusting in God Instead of Your Understanding Poem

    Be My Vision – A Poem On Having Faith In God Instead of Ourselves  Be the eyes through which I see – so that I may not gaze into the past with regret or worry…

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  • Deer Child – A Nature and Life Poem

    Deer Child – A Nature Poem About Life and Wisdom Doe and fawn drink from the creek at dawn, filling their bellies to last out the noonday heat. Doe protective and cautious; fawn careless and unconscious…

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  • Walking through the Forest – A Poem About Nature and Spirituality   To walk through the forestand see sunlight shinning through the treesis like a cool, refreshing breezeto the spirit sweltering beneaththe heat of worldly…

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  • The Tortured Artist – A Poem

    The Tortured Artist – A Poem About Creating Art Through Pain Utterly bound by the need for discovery, yet plagued by the awareness that finding leaves me no farther along my journey in the eyes…

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  • Poem about Sin and God’s Grace by Justin Farley

    Mistakes and Promises – A Rhyming Poem on Shame and God’s Mercy My mistakes are unlimited, my promises are sometimes half-hearted and indifferent, and my character can get thrown wherever desire moves me, swayed like…

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  • God Will Provide Poem

    “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not…

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  • Poem About Destiny and Fate

    A Haunting FateWhat is this voice that comeshowling in my heart…this restless ghost that suddenlycomes flooding out of the fog of night…this ghoul that haunts despite my pleas,desperately pulling me towards a distant light?I consistently…

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  • The Cost of Freedom – Recovery Addiction Poem

    The Cost of Freedom – An Addiction Poem About Recovery Confining walls, prison cell; there’s no shame in wearing a straight jacket if it makes you well. Dirty dishes, soiled clothes; it’s a heavy burden…

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  • Poem about Birdsong Birds Singing in Spring in the Morning

    Birdsong – A PoemThe birds of morning take their placesupon the stage of life’s amphitheaterwhere their voices have remained mute for months.But today, they rise in joyful chorus,belting out melodious tunes.Isn’t it funny how such…

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  • Internal Fire – A Poem

    Internal Fire – A Poem About Having A Panic Attack Smoke fills the lungs. Warning signals run in desperation to alert the mind in a race that’s become all too familiar. Flames engulf my entrails…

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  • Short Poem About Self Esteem and Your Self-Image

    A Short Poem About Your Self-Image, Self Esteem, and Positive Thinking “The Mirror” The mirror stands tall and peers with endless eyes,full of the power to change your course in life.It’s skilled in planting and…

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  • Religious Christmas Poem About Jesus Birth

    ILLUMINATION – A Christian Christmas Poem About the Birth of Christ Seeds of fire grow with smoky breath. Tongues of flame lick the darkness and eat away the barriers to sight. Slowly shadows melt off…

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  • Christian Poem About Having An Inflated Ego and Being Selfish

    “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) “Me, My, Mine” – A Christian Poem About the Dangers of Being Selfish and Prideful Ignorance is expressed as “me, my,…

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