Tag: poems about god
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Deep Haiku Poem About the Spiritual Journey and Fire 5 7 5
Are you keeping the divine fire burning? A deep haiku poem about the spiritual journey and our responsibility in keeping the passionate fire with God burning.
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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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Light Wielder Poem About Bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth
Light WielderCrystals hang from the heavenly chandelieron the city upon the hill.Catching light and doing for the eyeswhat wind chimes do for the ears. A rustling. An awakening of an ancient force that remembers, that yearns with an unquenchable thirst for transcendence for totality for unity for eternity.Crystals catch the sun’s light,act like mirrors with…
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Metamorphosis A Poem About Butterflies and God’s Grace
Metamorphosis A Poem About Butterflies and God’s GraceInching along the earthcrunching, munching on misfortuneuntil pain wrapped itself like a cocoon -a castle outside the rooms of a hardened heart.Drowning, surely dying in the dark.Only to emerge from the wombreborn from a tomb of self-inflicted woundstransformed by the Divine spark.With wings of vibrant colorcarrying the evidence…
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Inspirational Poem About Living For God and Not the World
They Say… They say follow your heart, but I’m thoroughly convinced mine doesn’t know where the hell it’s going. They say the heart wants what the heart wants. Mine wants to pull down the shades and get rip-roaring drunk. They say love yourself. I think if I love myself any more I’m going to join…
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Planting is a Prayer Poem
Planting is a prayer. If you do it right. If you’re aware you’ve been given oversight in a chapter of a story that’s been continually expanding since the Word first spoke to the void
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Conversion Poem About the Love and Grace of God
Conversion A Poem About the Love and Grace of God I began divided. Quite selfish with a heart hungry for evil yet filled with a deep longing brewing below the surface that never seemed fulfilled by anything other than you. So what was I to do – in love with myself and my selfish desires…
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Fasting in the Desert A Godly Poem About Contemplation and Selfishness
Fasting in the Desert Strip yourself naked, unclothed of selfish desire. For it requires fuel to burn just as a raging fire. If all thoughts revolve around me and mine, how am I to hear the voice of God, how am I to feel the presence of the Divine? It’s by starving addictions that we…
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Origins Poem About Love Life Meaning
Origins What comes first, the invitation or the knock at the door? The yearning for your love or the whispering at our core? Justin Farley
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Plucking Beauty – A Poem About Life and Eternity
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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My Chapbook Collection of Christian Poetry and Poems about God is Now Available for Sale
Hello, everyone! I have recently published my first chapbook of Christian poems titled “A Voice in the Wilderness – A Chapbook of Poems about God”. This has been developed and polished over the past six months or so. I am happy with the final product and hope you find encouragement in the poems but also…
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Walking On Air A Poem About Faith and Meaning in Life
Walking on Air I once walked away from belief but only found air at my feet. All meaning and substance had ceased – pulled wherever passion blew me like the wind on a falling leaf. I thought I was seeking freedom; what I found was only more chains. To live with purpose and reason we…
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Opus Dei – A Poem About the Work of God In Your Life
Opus Dei – A Poem About the Work of God In Your Life Your hot breath has blown on me and provided the oxygen for glowing embers of love where there was once nothing but cold, hard coals. You’ve cultivated my soul and provided the rich, black soil for roots of patience where there was…
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Grace – A Poem
Grace – A Poem I am awed by the way you move me like freshly fallen snowflakes dusting across the frozen ground. Some days I forget the barren tundra from which I came and how you whispered by name, echoing across that vacant landscape so that a lost soul could be found. Some days time…
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Like Me – A Poem About Loving Yourself
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and…
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The Black Veil – A Poem
The Black Veil – A Poem I wear this black veil of despair Like the wrappings of a mummy, Covering my self-inflicted wounds. My face frozen in cold, blank stare Trapped within my tomb, Alone in my room. Why do you continue to test me? Why do you hold out savory meat Only to snatch…
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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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