Tag: inspiration
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Looking For Eternal Love Poem – “The Wings of A Fighter”
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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Life’s Amphitheater – A Poem About Helping the Less Fortunate
As I was driving down the road the other day and came to a stoplight, my eyes fell upon a young woman begging on the side of the road. I must admit that often times I am quick to judge out of pride or wonder why they are too lazy to pick themselves up and…
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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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There’s Wisdom In Silence – A Poem of Contemplation
There’s Wisdom In Silence – A Poem of Contemplation There’s wisdom in silence; Silence breeds seeds of wisdom. Knowledge pours in like an flowing pitcher Of water into an empty basin When the heart is humble and the mind is tranquil. When the tongue is mute, The ears of the heart can listen. The quiet…
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Growing Pains – A Poem
Growing Pains – A Poem Why are these dreams that stretch out across my heart’s field of desire, That glisten Like droplets of drew sparkling on the morning grass, So hard to obtain, so hard to take to take hold of, And so hard to lasso and pull close to reality? The burden is bearing…
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Eclipse – A Poem
Eclipse – A Poem Two sides of a conflicting coin Flip like faces in a dramatic act. Two intricate and separate forces entangle In a bitter struggle, leaving Earth cloaked in black. How can such a powerful light Be smothered by such a small, sinister hand? A visceral visual of what evil can accomplish When given…
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The Lamp Light – A Christian Poem About Wisdom
The Lamp Light – A Christian Poem About Wisdom The lamp light is lit. The atoning wick sucks up the anointing oil And is overflowing, Spreading a blazing fire within my chamber. I am mesmerized with the knowledge of wisdom – The calming vision that you lay upon my eyes. Tear down these fragile, crumbling walls…
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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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Rapunzel – A Poem About Fighting For Love
Rapunzel – A Poem About Fighting For Love “Rapunzel, Rapunzel,Let down thy hair.”Neither sleet nor rain,Darkness nor pain,Cold nor iceWill suffice to keep me awayFrom your tower of solitude.You can ascend spiral stairs of stoneInto the sky’s recesses,But I will follow your tresses,Clinging and holding on despite your wrongs.The song you sing is without equal,And…
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Patience – A Poem About Waiting and Trusting in God’s Timing
Patience – A Poem About Waiting and Trusting in God’s Timing The agony of waiting, watching the hours Drains my power and leaves me bitter Filled with battered pride and endless angst. But just as it takes a season to cultivate a flower, I must keep a steadfast heart and wait. My deepest failure is relying…
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The Fight – A Poem About Conquering Fear
A Poem about conquering fear and not letting fear choose your destiny or get in the way of your dreams.
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What is Success? What Does A Successful Person Do?
Success is staying true to ourselves and the core set of principles that we hold dear, always fighting, yet always persisting in the face of opposition. Some days we are more successful than others, but success is not an overnight venture; it is a lifetime pursuit of love, truth, passion, and hard work.
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Today is the Day – A Poem About Conquering Fear and Living Your Dreams
A Poem About Conquering Fear and Living Your Dreams. So many of us allow our lives to be dictated and restricted by fear.
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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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The Game of Life – A Poem About Success
The Game of Life – A Poem About Success Destiny lies outside the realms of limitations, Frolics through fields free from fear, Never is bound by expectations, Nor by the face reflected in the mirror. Duty wakes up before the rising sun Set on making strides while the rest of the world sleeps. Is never…
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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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Christ the Redeemer – A Poem For Easter
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
“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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