Tag: joy
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If I Only Had More Time Each Day…
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What do you wish you could do more every day? With More Time I’d Have…More time to read, More time to breathe.More time to notice the unpacking of a momentbefore it packs up and leaves.More time for quiet evenings. More time for musings at dawn.More time for my toes to swimthrough waves of tall grassand…
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Happiness is Fleeting A Poem About Being Content with Life
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Happiness is FleetingIf happiness is your goalyou’ll never be whole.Always be rolling on a raging riverof emotion completely out of control.For happiness is fleeting, receding like the waterson a creek bank after a storm,never even warned that the moment one desire is fulfilled a new one is born.Seek to make contentment your aim.For it’s constant…
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The Song of Life Inspirational Poem
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The Song of LifeThe rhythm of my soul beatswith joyful contentment.GratitudeAwarenessOpennessare the melodies my heart sings.The song of life is playingevery second of every day.Lean in.Listen.Closer…until it movesyour heart to dance.Justin Farley
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Seasons of Winter Poem About Spring
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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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Poem About Being Content, Humble, and Joyful
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Great Expectations Joy can seize us in the lowliest of places, perhaps even easier than in the loftiest ones. Humble eyes are open wider than those of great expectation, those muted of exultation and closed to the blessings that abound in the ordinary – it’s commonness makes it no less miraculous. It’s easy to see…
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When Sorrow Comes – A Poem
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When Sorrow Comes I’m old enough now and have lived through enough winters to know that as you begin reaping joy sorrow already begins to grow. This life promises many harvests but one crop it’s certain to sow – that beyond the warmth of summer comes the cold, winter snow. It’s not about protecting yourself…
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Plucking Beauty – A Poem About Life and Eternity
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Plucking Beauty I once plucked beauty out of experience serendipitously like wild flowers in the country, delighting in what new joy life was going to allow me to discover and show off in vases upon my windowsill. But my curiosity is stagnant and often vanishes, jaded over what I know I’ll find – that everything…
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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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The Clouds of Mourning – A Poem About Depression and Pain
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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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An Ode To Joy – A Poem About Hope
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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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Searching For Happiness in the Wrong Places
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Why is it that we have such a hard time letting go of physical wants and desires? Humans have been searching for happiness in all the wrong places for thousands of years and probably will for thousands to come, while history has shown time and time again that success and riches do not make people…
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