Author: Justin Farley
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Free – A Love Poem About Being Yourself
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Free – A Love Poem Just when I thought I’d seen it all, You burst onto the scene And shattered my expectations within An hour of your spirit’s introduction. Since my first glance there has been no reduction, No doubt that left me questioning my desire for you. My passion is a steady rising –…
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The Streets of Love – A Poem
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The Streets of Love – A Poem Somewhere in the depths of solitude There’s a searching, a seeking, An endless pursuit for meaning Among the daily rendezvous with silence And the lonely morning hangovers From drinking too many shots of unrequited love The night before. There’s Tylenol for a headache, but what do I give…
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My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem
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My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem My love is an ocean – An endless reservoir of new hope That collects new deposits from tributaries daily. My heart ebbs and flows With tides of passion And you, love, are the moon – The great gravitational force that wields control. My waters run deep,…
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Love’s Sacred Rite – A Love Poem
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Love’s Sacred Rite – A Love Poem Lie down beneath the moonlight. Celebrate with me in love’s mystery tonight. Shake the dust of past experience from your clothes And lay on me, my dear, your lonely woes. For I want you and all of you – Not just the pretty parts past loves knew. I…
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Reunion – A Love Poem
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Reunion – A Love Poem From the moment your voiceFirst left your lips I knew you.I recognized you from my soul’s masquerade,Dancing across love’s ballroom in dream.I remembered you from my subconscious longings,Some pattern painted across my mindTo give me ample warning when you walked through my door.You have finally arrived,And I want you by…
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A Lover’s Journey – A Love Poem
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A Lover’s Journey – A Love Poem If you offer me your hand, I will follow you Forever across fields of heather, Through the pastures of clover, And down the valley filled with bramble and thorn. Adorn your brow with freshly picked flowers, love And let us frolic beneath the sun, Entwined like creeping vines…
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Entangled in Your Love – A Poem About Intimacy With God
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Entangled in Your Love – A Poem About Intimacy With God You are the cool, autumn breeze,The great mystical force that brings me to my knees,Stupefied in awestruck wonder.I miss you when you’re not near,When your shadow no longer covers meAnd hides me beneath your wings.But I seek. But I search.And you reveal new thingsTo…
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The Battle of the Heart – A Christian Poem About Temptation
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The Battle of the Heart – A Christian Poem About Temptation Oh Lord, my heart quakes with confusion. My mind twisted with the delusions of desire. I am a boat that wanders across the sea Getting rocked by the waves day in and day out. How do I stay afloat and stand tall When the…
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The Lamb Who Sanctifies – A Christian Poem
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The Lamb Who Sanctifies – A Christian Poem What peace, what hope What incomparable growth That sprouts from the True Vine. What love, what joy To be employed – To do the work of the Divine. Oh, the rapture brought forth from your pain. Wrath appeased, the Lamb is slain. Hyssop branches sprinkle your blood…
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A Plea To Love – A Poem
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A Plea To Love – A Poem Oh, this wanting, this waiting, This endless pursuing A feeling that waxes and wanes Like the cycles of the moon. Her eyes dangle like glistening diamonds, But close and pass out of sight much too soon. I squander the hours away, Smoking the days up like cigarettes in…
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Christ the Redeemer – A Poem For Easter
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Christ the Redeemer – A Rhyming Religious Poem For Easter Darkness drew back in disbelief on that day,When death’s victory was thwartedAnd the stone was rolled away.What depths of love,What heights of grace,Could bear the weight of the human race?Defeat didn’t last but three days,Before the wounds were healedAnd the burial cloth was cast away.Satan’s…
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It Is Finished – The Gospel of Grace
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“After this, Jesus knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is…
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The Day Love Bore the World’s Pain – A Poem About Jesus’ Crucifixion
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A Poem About Jesus’ Crucifixion and Good Friday
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The Great Unifier – A Poem About Love
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The Great Unifier – A Poem About Love It is love that spands the cosmos Unaltered by time, Unmoved by distance, years, wrinkles, Or finite desire. It stands tall like a lighthouse at sea, Promising to keep a lantern lit, A light radiating regardless of how hard the wind whips And how thunderous the sea’s…
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Discipleship – A Christian Poem About Following Jesus
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Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on a little farther, he…
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Will You? – A Love Poem
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Will You? – A Love Poem Will you dance with me for a moment, Take my hand and let me waltz you away? Will you whisper to me your dreams And tell me tales of yesterdays? Will you open your heart for just a minute, Just long enough for me to plant a seed? Will…
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Brewin’ – Poem About Coffee
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Brewin’ – Poem About Coffee Dark elixir for drowsiness,Brewed before the dawn stretches and wakes.Steam rising, birds rousingSitting on the porch waiting for the morning to break. Magical, mystical potion that revives, vitalizesOn Monday morning when we’ve hadA little too much weekend to drink,Unable to move beyond the temptation of sleep. Oh, sweet beautiful caffeine,Millions…
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