Tag: Poems About Anxiety
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Poem About Intimacy with God
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Intimacy With GodSpeaking in the silence,waiting in the midst of contemplation,listening on the other line of prayerawaits the answerto the relentless yearning of the human heart.Do not come seeking secret knowledge.Do not expect divine visions,to become enlightened,or to transcend physical reality.But come to the silencesimply to listen,desiring and longing forintimacy with the Divine,experiencing God’s love…
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Losing Myself Poem About Mental Illness and Recovery
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Losing Myself I’m losing myself in pieces –every year fragments of my soulfeel swept away by time. My identity constantly decreases,and I’m beginning to feel like a strangerwithin the confines of my own mind. Yes, I’m losing myself in pieces –the jigsaw puzzle’s lovely imagehas jumbled into an abstract mess. But my search for meaning…
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Poem about Wrestling with God and Accepting God’s Will
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Tug O’ War Engaged in a constant game of tug o’ war between your will and mine. Sweating out the hours. Eking out the days, muscles bulging in desperate exhaustion, clinging to dust. Why do I wrestle with you? Why does my foolish heart still insist it knows better despite a lifelong record of defeat?…
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Poem About Addiction to Drugs Alcohol and Recovery
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Starting Today – A Poem About Relapse If resisting was an easy task,who would be a slave?Who would part with a piece of themselvesfor the chance at an early grave?Willpower alone is enough to put you in hellbut it’s not enough to pull you out.You’ll never have a chance at getting welluntil you accept living…
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Poem about Books, Magic, and Magical Places
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Magic I’ve experienced magic. I’ve witnessed countless spells and drank the words of a thousand potions. Been teleported to different countries and worlds, explored to the end of the universe, have dug to the center of Earth, and have even traveled through time. I’ve ridden horses through ancient forests, stormed and conquered a fortress, and…
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Poem about Depression, Anxiety, and Bipolar Disorder
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Wavering Emotions What pulls me out of bed in the morning? What lies beyond the break of day? Some days find me bouncing to work, others a struggle to summon the energy to play. How do I slay this elusive dragon that renders me depressed and without drive? My heart longs and desires to flourish,…
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Poem About Babies and Parenthood
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Parental Love Days spent thinking about all the things I want to teach you all the things I can’t wait to show you but for now it’s fishing for your smiles like twinkling stars in my sky that I want to catch and hold in my pocket forever. How can something so small, so innocent,…
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Poem About Peace, Love, and Faith
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You Will Find You will find peace when nothing but this moment matters… when you forgive yourself and others for the past and stop obsessing over the worries of tomorrow. You will find contentment when you seek communion with the divine… when the eternal fire of truth burns brighter than wealth, social status, or material…
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Poem About the Grace and Mercy of God
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The Questions of Life Are we free or predetermined? At the helm of the open seas or merely indentured servants? Why the trials, why the burdens if life is as it’s meant to be, if the future is certain? But as for me, I’m determined to believe that freewill is your loving flame for us…
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Trusting in God Instead of Your Understanding Poem
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Be My Vision Be the eyes through which I see – so that I may not gaze into the past with regret or worry about what’s before me. In past, present, and future let me only see you and your will. May I not be obsessed with the weather in my life – so…
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Deer Child – A Nature and Life Poem
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Deer Child – A Nature and Life Poem Doe and fawn drink from the creek at dawn, filling their bellies to last out the noonday heat. Doe protective and cautious; fawn careless and unconscious – unaware of the eyes watching her from the bank. Age brings wisdom and experience, for the youthful heart is oblivious to…
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Nature Poem About Walking in the Woods
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Walking through the Forest – A Poem About Nature and Spirituality To walk through the forestand see sunlight shinning through the treesis like a cool, refreshing breezeto the spirit sweltering beneaththe heat of worldly troubles. To walk through the forestand observe nature’s mysterious orderis like a wall erected in the path of disorder,calming the…
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The Tortured Artist – A Poem
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The Tortured Artist by Justin Farley Utterly bound by the need for discovery, yet plagued by the awareness that finding leaves me no farther along my journey in the eyes of the world. The most tortured artist is the realist who’s aware he’s playing the fool, but must play his role regardless, knowing it’s the…
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God Will Provide Poem
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“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” -Isaiah 43:2-3 God Will…
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Poem About Destiny and Fate
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A Haunting Fate What is this voice that comes howling in my heart… this restless ghost that suddenly comes flooding out of the fog of night… this ghoul that haunts despite my pleas, desperately pulling me towards a distant light? I consistently pull away from its advances, swatting away its hands like pesky gnats swarming…
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The Cost of Freedom – Recovery Addiction Poem
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The Cost of Freedom Confining walls, prison cell; there’s no shame in wearing a straight jacket if it makes you well. Dirty dishes, soiled clothes; it’s a heavy burden to keep your house clean on your own. Hidden secrets, concealed lies; they are the extent of your sickness – the enemy of recovery is pride.…
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