Tag: Poems About Anxiety
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Umbrella – A Poem
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Umbrella – A Poem The world’s troubles pour all around me, But I am perfectly safe and dry Shielded underneath the armor of your umbrella – Rain sliding down its sides like shingles Nailed upon an angled roof. Droplets of pain drip down From the edges of your cover, But I am without a tear…
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The Game of Life – A Poem About Success
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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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The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion
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The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion Can eyes hide the riversOf pain that flow inside?Can ears mute the quaking, shakingOf a heart that boomsWith thunders of broken dreams?There’s a storm raging inside the manHe doesn’t wish the world to see,So he puts on his business attire each morningAnd paints…
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Until I Met You – A Love Poem
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Until I Met You – A Love Poem The world stands still when I gazeInto your eyes of blue.Beloved, love was nothing more thanA foolish errand until the day that I met you.’Twas like an emerging butterflyThe way you transformed my soul.Once inched along the ground,Now fly since you’ve restored me whole.The hands of time…
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Love’s Wings – A Poem
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Love’s Wings – A Poem Imagine my surprise waking to findMy arms covered in feathers – now fully supported wings.My voice like the sweetness of a sparrow,Bellowed from a passionate heart that sings.I flew through the sky with a lightnessMy mind and body ever knew.For love, my burden was liftedThe day that I met you.The…
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Love’s Admittance – A Love Poem
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Love’s Admittance – A Love Poem A line in the sand was drawn – Some invisible wall designed To keep out the pangs of love. But here you stand Unscathed by my defenses, moving freely Around the interior of my heart. A thief I would gladly capture and exile, But your garb is whiter than…
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Something, Somehow, Somewhere, Somehow – A Love Poem
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Something, Somehow, Somewhere, Somehow – A Love Poem Something about you soothes me Like a long gulp of cool water Down my parched throat. Something about me moves you, Some miraculous ability to keep your eyes Blind to my mountains of misfortune. Somehow you capture me, Lasso my heart and rope me in With the…
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Love’s Reprise – A Love Poem
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Love’s Reprise – A Love Poem There was a time when the stars never shined And beauty withered and decayed, But now her love is mine – goddess surely divine, Beauty’s finest role ever played. Heart of gold, soul as old As yonder oak in forest green. Another story told, a new chapter unfolds About…
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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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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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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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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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