Author: Justin Farley
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Poem about Depression, Anxiety, and Bipolar Disorder
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Wavering Emotions 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 the energy to play. How do I slay this elusive dragon that renders me depressed and without drive? My heart longs and desires to flourish,…
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Poem About Babies and Parenthood
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Parental Love 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 for your smiles like twinkling stars in my sky that I want to catch and hold in my pocket forever. How can something so small, so innocent,…
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Poem About Peace, Love, and Faith
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You Will Find 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 tomorrow. You will find contentment when you seek communion with the divine… when the eternal fire of truth burns brighter than wealth, social status, or material…
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Poem About the Grace and Mercy of God
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The Questions of Life Are we free or predetermined? At the helm of the open seas or merely indentured servants? Why the trials, why the burdens if life is as it’s meant to be, if the future is certain? But as for me, I’m determined to believe that freewill is your loving flame for us…
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Trusting in God Instead of Your Understanding Poem
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Be My Vision Be the eyes through which I see – so that I may not gaze into the past with regret or worry about what’s before me. In past, present, and future let me only see you and your will. May I not be obsessed with the weather in my life – so…
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Deer Child – A Nature and Life Poem
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Deer Child – A Nature and Life Poem 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 – unaware of the eyes watching her from the bank. Age brings wisdom and experience, for the youthful heart is oblivious to…
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Nature Poem About Walking in the Woods
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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 troubles. To walk through the forestand observe nature’s mysterious orderis like a wall erected in the path of disorder,calming the…
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The Tortured Artist – A Poem
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The Tortured Artist by Justin Farley Utterly bound by the need for discovery, yet plagued by the awareness that finding leaves me no farther along my journey in the eyes of the world. The most tortured artist is the realist who’s aware he’s playing the fool, but must play his role regardless, knowing it’s the…
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Poem about Sin and God’s Grace by Justin Farley
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Mistakes and Promises by Justin Farley My mistakes are unlimited, my promises are sometimes half-hearted and indifferent, and my character can get thrown wherever desire moves me, swayed like willow branches in the wind. But when the waves of my sin pass, guilt juts through my soul like shards of glass, and I’m left to…
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God Will Provide Poem
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“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 consume you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” -Isaiah 43:2-3 God Will…
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Poem About Destiny and Fate
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A Haunting Fate What is this voice that comes howling in my heart… this restless ghost that suddenly comes flooding out of the fog of night… this ghoul that haunts despite my pleas, desperately pulling me towards a distant light? I consistently pull away from its advances, swatting away its hands like pesky gnats swarming…
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The Cost of Freedom – Recovery Addiction Poem
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The Cost of Freedom 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 to keep your house clean on your own. Hidden secrets, concealed lies; they are the extent of your sickness – the enemy of recovery is pride.…
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Poem about Birdsong Birds Singing in Spring in the Morning
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Birdsong – A Poem The 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 a small animalcan make a giant footprint upon the souland lift a heavy heart higherthan pharmaceutical cocktails and…
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Short Poem About Self Esteem and Your Self-Image
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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 sowing your demise,yet is always willing to inspire and energize.It’s the instigator of failure’s reprise,or makes goals and dreams actualized.The…
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Religious Christmas Poem About Jesus Birth
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A Christian Christmas Poem About the Birth of Christ “ILLUMINATION” Seeds of fire grow with smoky breath. Tongues of flame lick the darkness and eat away the barriers to sight. Slowly shadows melt off of objects once obscured beneath black blankets of night. As the heat rises, images of revelation meet the eyes. Secrets are…
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Christian Poem About Having An Inflated Ego and Being Selfish
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A Christian Poem About the Dangers of Being Selfish and Prideful “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) “Me, My, Mine” Ignorance is expressed as “me, my, mine”, ignoring in every facet of life the presence of the Divine. Covering your eyes doesn’t make the sun not…
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