Tag: poems
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Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature
Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature Silence comes swiftly with the sudden breeze quietly untangling the mind and piercing the restless heart. The rustles of the leaves in the trees let light fall like raindrops each time nature’s canopy is shaken. There’s a presence here unnameable, indescribable, ancient and older than the tallest oak.…
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Wrestling With Sin A Poem About Sexual Desire Temptation
Wrestling With Sin A Poem About Sexual Desire Temptation I’m wrestling with sin doing my damnedest not to give in. But I feel my back pinned to the mat knowing that temptation is going to win. My life feels like a chokehold, strangled beneath a force so strong and bold that I’ve grown tired of…
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Beauty’s Elegy Poem About the Fake Life of the Digital World
Beauty’s Elegy Beauty is dead. She’s decaying in her casket by common consent. She withered and shriveled into a ghost because our eyes no longer saw her, glued to our synthetic screens, while she sensually danced begging for attention but found no audience among this generation. Beauty cried out but her shouts went unnoticed among…
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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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Ashes Devotional Poem For Lent Ash Wednesday
Ashes The fire blazed and in the flames I gazed upon the fuel – the false self feeding this renewal. It is awareness that strikes the match and dispatches the light roaring into the darkness. Though this heat is intense, it only speaks of how immense your glory and goodness truly are. I fed myself…
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Dreams Unrequited Love Poem
Dreams I’ve seen you in my dreams splitting through the seams I’ve sewed, trying to keep you out. Pressing play on the same ol’ scenes of what was like a movie classic stuck on loop, even though I’ve already swept you from my stoop. Yet, my dreams teleport my heart upon this ragged, wooden sloop…
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A Snowy Morning in the City Poem About Winter Snow and Nature
A Snowy Morning in the CitySnowflakes fall in silencefluttering down from the skylike feathers after a pillow fightin the heavens,coating rooftops in layers of white,quickly burying black asphaltand blurring the sightof human hands upon the land.The branches of pines and spruceshave been dipped in sugar.The mighty trunks of the oaksfrosted with icing.What a delicious dessert…
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Poem About Being Content, Humble, and Joyful
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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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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Poem About Bravery and Courage
Bravery There’s no one braver to be in a world increasingly defined by a litany of achievements than the way God crafted me. Our contributions can’t be measured solely in dollars and money signs. For God’s work isn’t treasured by the market of mankind. Our souls become rich and our hearts light when we reject…
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Mother Nature’s Sleep – Winter Poetry About Nature
Mother Nature’s Sleep The snowflakes, the silence echoes across the dark winter’s night. Nothing but a coat to keep out the frozen breeze that whips and throws snow like confetti into the air without a cause to celebrate except for the breath still in my chest, the only warmth I have left living in the…
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Living in Love Poem About Loving Yourself and Others
Living in Love To live in Love we must first accept the imperfection within ourselves before we can accept the imperfection in others. To live in Love we must first bandage our own wounds before we treat the wounds of the world. I grant grace to you in your weakness to the extent that I…
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What Should I Do With My Life Poem About Life Purpose
A Life’s Purpose – A Poem Busyness is not success. Nor is achievement. Nor accolades of power, status, or wealth. Success is measured by how closely we live out our life’s purpose – the king who was called to live as a pauper is poor. What good is earning the riches of the world if…
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Sweet Utopia – Poem About Social Media and Technology Addiction
Sweet Utopia The sounds of motorcars are noxious to the ears. Fingers convulsing on the steering wheel precede the piercing screams of honks – an abundance of impatience. Where are you going in such a hurry? Is it worth sacrificing peace of mind for seconds of time? Oh, yes I forgot… You’ve got poisonous news…
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Planting – A Poem About Using Your Talents and Gifts For God
Planting These seeds I sow, I know not whether they’ll grow or remain dormant without ever seeing the light of day. Whether they’ll wither and die or if they’ll take root and thrive matters little; I am a planter – I leave the harvesting to You. I keep my heart open to the wind on…
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Poem About Being Unique and Special
Alphabet Soup God’s assigned each one of us a letter of His being – a unique quality that sets us apart from each and every human to ever exist. Though we are not God, God is a part of us. Our letter reveals something about Him. It is why we are all connected. It is…
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A Poem About Recovery Hope and Change
No Matter No matter how hard it is to keep the fire burning, no matter how many disappointments have visited you without warning, no matter how many different trials you’ve sat through today, though the verdict may be hard to swallow, tomorrow, tomorrow’s another day. And it may seem impossible in this moment, but in…
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Poem About Art Life and Vulnerability
Pure Art Pure art is fragile, stitched together and held by our dreams, joys, and struggles. It is not perfect for life is not perfect and the truest art reflects life as it is – imperfect, messy, yet full of possibility. It is the imperfection that speaks to our imperfect hearts, assuring us that we…
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