Author: Justin Farley
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Illusions – A Poem
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Illusions – A Poem The demon water you drinkIs devouring your soul.Don’t you know this road has no happy endingAnd your heart will turn cold? Repeating lies does not change reality.Sooner or later you’ll have to face life’s inevitable truth.Don’t set yourself on foolish paths, don’t chase foolish pursuits,And hang your happiness up by your…
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Woman – A Love Poem For Her
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Woman – A Love Poem For Her You are like the waves lapping against the shore –Repetitive, seductive, intoxicating, cleansingLike holy water that wrings out the darkness. I sit unceasingly upon the sands of timeWaiting for the rise of your tide,To feel your waters once more by my side.Staring off into the drab, gray horizon,I…
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Poem about the Writing Process – “Inkblood”
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Inkblood – A Poem about the Writing Process Beneath a pale, July moonAn ancient manuscript sitsIlluminated by candlelight,Its pages gently rustling in the breezeBlowing behind the curtains of the nearby window. The ink is faded beneathLayers of time and age,But the wisdom remainsScribbled in rhymes,Written eons ago by some old sage. But tonight it’s voice…
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Poem About Feeling Alone and Misunderstood
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Alien – A Poem Feelings run too deeplike the full summer moon,sinking in the sky’s dark sea of black.Reminiscing, pondering over burnt out stars,wishing their beautiful light could somehow be brought back. But the ancient dust has crumbled,scattered like ashes in the brisk solar wind.But memories stand transfixed,unaltered by time, suspendedin infinity’s domain without an…
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Today – A Inspiration Poem
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Today – A Inspiration Poem The sun is rising.Open your eyes to the possibility of a new lifeThat waits for you upon the horizon.Let the aroma of fresh brewed coffee stir you in bedAnd lead you from where dreams remain fixed in your headTo where they are transfigured in motion through action. Today we set…
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The Black Veil – A Poem
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The Black Veil – A Poem I wear this black veil of despair Like the wrappings of a mummy, Covering my self-inflicted wounds. My face frozen in cold, blank stare Trapped within my tomb, Alone in my room. Why do you continue to test me? Why do you hold out savory meat Only to snatch…
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Fear of the Lord – A Lesson On What It Means To Fear God
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“Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” – Proverbs 9:10 As you read through the Old Testament, fear of or fearing the Lord is a common theme. It wasn’t until a recent study through the book of Proverbs that I truly grasped this concept…
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Be Aware. Be Alert. Be Ready – A Commentary For Advent
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No One Knows That Day and Hour “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they…
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The Woman in the Mirror
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The Woman in the Mirror You are a seductive temptressthat tempts with the ticks of time.In control of the clocks hands,only needing to rewind to the moments we left behind. You still lurk in the shadows –a creature stalking in the dead of night.But potential follows wherever your heart goes,needing only to let go of…
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Raven
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Raven Jet black feathers fall from your head And brush the beauty of your cheek. Dark as night like strands of onyx Woven with omens and tales of mystery. The spell you caw claws at my heart and captivates me. Emerald eyes like a pair of dazzling jewels, Sparkling and rousing lust like a treasure…
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The Mirror of Truth – A Poem
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The Mirror of Truth – A Poem Into the mirror I gaze and am wrapped within the frame of a smoky haze of secrets swirling within glass. I can’t deny the face, can’t pretend I don’t know, have no trace of realization that the figure before my eyes is me. It’s unsettling to see the…
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Build Within Me A Foundation of Thanksgiving – A Poem of Praise to God
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Build Within Me A Foundation of Thanksgiving – A Poem of Praise to God May your rays of righteousness pierce through the clouds and shadows of my heart. May my mind give way to your fruit – take up your shears and prune these vines that ensnare me. Give thanks, give praise to the tree…
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Like the Summer Wind – A Poem
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Like the Summer Wind – A Poem I yearn for you like the summer wind – vast, cool, refreshing upon my cheek; a shelter to soothe beneath the furnace of life’s heat. Your character radiates and pierces through the layers of lust surrounding my heart, pushing foolish desires aside; shredding selfishness apart. Your faith is…
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Everyday Miracles – A Poem About Finding God and Contentment in Ordinary Things
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Finding Miracles in Everyday Life Nature has so many miracles lurking in the ordinary. We can find so many miracles in everyday life–we just have to learn to pay attention and be mindful which is hard to do in the modern world with so many distractions and with how fast paced life has become. But…
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Looking For Eternal Love Poem – “The Wings of A Fighter”
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A poem about looking for love and finding a partner who is dedicated and sticks by your side through life’s struggles.
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The Light Shines In the Darkness – A Photo Taken at Dawn
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“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
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The Sailor – A Poem
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The Sailor – A Poem You’ve sent me off as an aimless navigator Traveling upon treacherous and torrential seas. Once was a proud and confident sailor, But now find there’s no compass I can read. Needles spin with the wind and poles have no meaning When they are altered by my heart’s magnetic field. And…
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