Tag: hope
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Feathers A Christian Poem About Letting Go of Fear and Worry
Feathers The weight of the world is a feather in the hand of its maker. It does not burden, break, or bury the one who reigns outside of Time and Space’s domain. Our behemoths are merely single barbs attached to that weightless shaft that flutters like the forest’s souvenirs given to a child, fallen from…
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Climbing Mountains Poem About Living Out Your Dreams
Climbing Mountains A Poem About Living Out Your Dreams and Believing in Yourself The road rose in the distance insistent on wrapping around the towering mountain like twine. At its feet stood a shrine dedicated to the drowsy dreamer, the tired thinker, the sleepy schemer who had journeyed all this way only to have disbelief…
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Songs of Spring Nature Poem About Birds Singing
Songs of Spring A Nature Poem About Birds Singing The robins are back chirping. The cardinals have resumed singing out from the bushes they’ve used for shelter these past few months. They bring joy. They bring hope that spring is just ’round the corner, that I can cope, each day getting warmer, each day the…
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Seasons of Winter Poem About Spring
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 snowthat dissolves my heart beatswith a disposition towards hopesledding down slopes of solacetaking comfort in the possibility to copewith my…
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A Poem About Recovery Hope and Change
No Matter No matter how hard it is to keep the fire burning, no matter how many disappointments have visited you without warning, no matter how many different trials you’ve sat through today, though the verdict may be hard to swallow, tomorrow, tomorrow’s another day. And it may seem impossible in this moment, but in…
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The Woman in the Mirror
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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The Mirror of Truth – A Poem
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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The Clouds of Mourning – A Poem About Depression and Pain
As we go through life, there are inevitable seasons where it seems the skies are always cloudy, always raining, and the forecast will never change. Anyone that has ever dealt with depression (or any mental illness for that matter) knows that it is like a ghost that haunts you no matter where you go or…
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Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear
Beauty’s Battle – A Poem About Endurance and Fighting Fear She sits engaged in a battleBeneath the shadow of her own face,Slowly conceding to her own demonsBrought back by their blows, crushed beneath their weight. She wonders what’s the use in tryingWhen defeat has already been secured?For what’s left of the light is dyingAnd her…
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When Trouble Comes – A Poem About Faith and Enduring Life’s Pain
When Trouble Comes A Poem About Faith and Enduring Life’s Pain Evening’s crippling darkness passes away. It’s distant vigor muted by the beauty of the morn. Hope shines forth from the sun’s mighty rays, A new spirit within us is born. I am not overburdened by life’s troubles. Though painful, they will not shackle nor…
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The Tinman – A Poem
The Tinman – A Poem Your beacon blazes with the firestormOf a thousand pyres.In your eyes I find the fires –Smoke signals that rise to the heavensAnd lead me on a journeyOut of the confinement of earthly shacklesThat have clanged like lonely church bellsRinging in the early morning,Beckoning for deliverance around my feet for countless…
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My Conceited Heart – A Christian Poem About Turning Away From God
Is it your will that we should become strangersThe moment I become a stranger to pain?The wind howls your lonely lullabyAs I drift on forgetting your name. Your deliverance is a selfless actWrapped up and gifted as incomparable love -Your omniscient knowledge knowing we will turn awayThe second you stop the tears of our flood.…
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An Ode To Joy – A Poem About Hope
An Ode To Joy – A Poem About Hope It is joy that spreads its wings and meets me in the midst of my melancholic musings and carries me through despair. Pain does not disappear, but is transcended by a power mightier than the trappings of the mind and the preaching Pity pouts from depression’s…
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Revival – A Christian Poem About Restoration
Revival – A Christian Poem About Restoration Take this wounded heartthat beats in its own keyand tune it to the beauty of your mercy. Gather these scattered fragments –pieces of man I yearn to beand mold me in the image of your Son. Bathe me beneath the waves of your living water.For you, you are…
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Sing to the Lord a New Song – A Christian Poem For Lent
“Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth! Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell his salvation from day to day.” Psalm 96:1-2 Sing to the Lord a New Song – A Christian Poem For Lent “Sing to the LORD a new song” that radiates from the…
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The Light That Shines in the Darkness – A Poem About Hope
A Christian poem about hope and finding light during dark times that rhymes, titled “The Light That Shines In The Darkness” by Justin Farley.
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Struggling With Sin
“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” (Romans 7:15) I think just about everyone can relate to this verse. We find ourselves committing the same sins over and over again, even after we swear we’ll never commit them…
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Waiting For Wisdom – Keeping Faith During Hard Times
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself…
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