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Guideposts Along the Barren Road

Like the Birds in Spring A Love Poem For Her I’ll follow you like the birds in spring flapping their wings wherever their mate goes across an endless sky. Tweeting a tune of sweet reply…
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Seasons of WinterPoem About SpringThe ice is melting,thawing away from the land,flowing back into the handsof its maker.Nature’s enchantment shatterswith a single kiss from springclinging to the warmthof renewal, rebirth, reawakening.And in each pile of…
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Letting Go Poem about Trusting in God Troubles slip through my fingers like sand as long as I cling to your commands, letting your Word direct my way – floodgates to block and keep me…
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Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six…
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Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature Silence comes swiftly with the sudden breeze quietly untangling the mind and piercing the restless heart. The rustles of the leaves in the trees let light fall like…
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Wrestling With Sin A Poem About Sexual Desire Temptation I’m wrestling with sin doing my damnedest not to give in. But I feel my back pinned to the mat knowing that temptation is going to…
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RunningCan I get a cup of wineto drown the time,to float away fromthis heavy heart of mine?Or perhaps a speedy carthat’ll take me fast so faraway from these expired dreamsnow void of stars?Maybe a boat…
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Beauty’s Elegy Beauty is dead. She’s decaying in her casket by common consent. She withered and shriveled into a ghost because our eyes no longer saw her, glued to our synthetic screens, while she sensually…
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Satan’s SpeechA Narrative Poem with Religious ThemesSatan stepped up to the podium,cleared his throat, and tapped the microphoneto address his legions of demons gatheredwith each new, human generationto discuss matters of military penetration.”It is no…
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Fasting in the Desert Strip yourself naked, unclothed of selfish desire. For it requires fuel to burn just as a raging fire. If all thoughts revolve around me and mine, how am I to hear…
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Ashes The fire blazed and in the flames I gazed upon the fuel – the false self feeding this renewal. It is awareness that strikes the match and dispatches the light roaring into the darkness.…
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Dreams I’ve seen you in my dreams splitting through the seams I’ve sewed, trying to keep you out. Pressing play on the same ol’ scenes of what was like a movie classic stuck on loop,…
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A Snowy Morning in the CitySnowflakes fall in silencefluttering down from the skylike feathers after a pillow fightin the heavens,coating rooftops in layers of white,quickly burying black asphaltand blurring the sightof human hands upon the…
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Great Expectations Joy can seize us in the lowliest of places, perhaps even easier than in the loftiest ones. Humble eyes are open wider than those of great expectation, those muted of exultation and closed…
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Origins What comes first, the invitation or the knock at the door? The yearning for your love or the whispering at our core? Justin Farley
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Bravery There’s no one braver to be in a world increasingly defined by a litany of achievements than the way God crafted me. Our contributions can’t be measured solely in dollars and money signs. For…
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Mother Nature’s Sleep The snowflakes, the silence echoes across the dark winter’s night. Nothing but a coat to keep out the frozen breeze that whips and throws snow like confetti into the air without a…
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Living in Love To live in Love we must first accept the imperfection within ourselves before we can accept the imperfection in others. To live in Love we must first bandage our own wounds before…
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