Tag: poems
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Fences Poem About Following Your Dreams
FencesThe fences of tomorrow stood behind mefree of my cage,done with grazing, agingaimlessly in this pasture of life.No longer pinned withinthe decision to end or begin.Tomorrow I wrangle dreams. Justin Farley
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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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Night Lights Poem About Beauty of Nature
Night LightsA Poem For Nature LoversLightning flashes across the prairiein rolling thunders of spontaneityon a crisp, clear summer night.Lights move in flight,flying from grass to grassas distracted hearts passunaware of the beautiful sight.Justin Farley
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Climbing Mountains Poem About Living Out Your Dreams
Climbing Mountains A Poem About Living Out Your Dreams and Believing in Yourself The road rose in the distance insistent on wrapping around the towering mountain like twine. At its feet stood a shrine dedicated to the drowsy dreamer, the tired thinker, the sleepy schemer who had journeyed all this way only to have disbelief…
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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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Sowing Poem About Embracing Yourself and Individuality
SowingTo harvest you must first sow,or you’ll end up in a fallstanding in a field of weedsregretting doing nothing with the seedsyou held in spring.Change comes slowly,rarely over night.Take delight in cultivatingyour corner of beauty in the world.For no other garden containsthe species of flowers you grow.So sow.Sow what you know.Sow the seeds that make…
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The Song of Life Inspirational Poem
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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A Child’s Laughter Parenting Poem
A Child’s Laughter Poem About the Joy of Being a Parent The sound of your child’s laughter is the sweetest song your heart will ever hear. Warding off any remembrance of disaster, all concerns and worries disappear. Like a spell of healing, an incantation that breaches the ear, it leaves you powerless to resist joyous…
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Pocket Pleasure Poem
Pocket Pleasure Poem About Being Addicted to Your Phone and Technology Every time I turn you on and wake you from your technological slumber, I feel your curses swimming through my mind – electrical impulses gripping me without consent. And then I hate my neediness. Hate my discontent, unable to sit alone in the silence…
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Poem About Life Journey and Inner Peace – Adventure
AdventurePoem About Life Journey and Inner PeaceAdventures never have destinations.It’s experience that gives us what we need to find.Leave the need for answers and your expectationsbehind you, unpacked from your mind.Modern life has lost its sense of mystery.The need to know shatters our sense of awe.To live out your true purpose and destinyrecognize that, at…
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Songs of Spring Nature Poem About Birds Singing
Songs of Spring A Nature Poem About Birds Singing The robins are back chirping. The cardinals have resumed singing out from the bushes they’ve used for shelter these past few months. They bring joy. They bring hope that spring is just ’round the corner, that I can cope, each day getting warmer, each day the…
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Sandcastles Poem About Hardships in Life
SandcastlesPoem About Hardships in LifeThe weariness of life is enoughto make even the watchman tired.His heavy eyelids close with eachcomplexity of life that breaches the palace gates.There he waits until all he aspiredfor crumbles beneath the harsh realities of lifelike the sandcastles he built as a boy,cold, green, frothy ocean dashing all his work in…
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Transformation A Poem About Change and Growth
Transformation A Poem About Change and Growth To suffer is to live; to live is to suffer. Born in the belly of hunger for the need to discover who we are where we came from where we’re going. The wheels of change have no brakes, no way to prevent the aches from the collusion caused…
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Like the Birds in Spring – A Love Poem For Her
Like the Birds in Spring A Love Poem For Her I’ll follow you like the birds in spring flapping their wings wherever their mate goes across an endless sky. Tweeting a tune of sweet reply whenever your heart calls me. I fly to you because your nest is my home. Roamed restlessly until you beckoned…
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Seasons of Winter Poem About Spring
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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Letting Go Poem About Trusting in God
Letting Go Poem about Trusting in God Troubles slip through my fingers like sand as long as I cling to your commands, letting your Word direct my way – floodgates to block and keep me at bay. But it’s never easy to deny yourself entry, shackling your will under lock and key of the sentry.…
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Christian Poetry Chapbook Ebook Temporarily Free
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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