Tag: Poetry
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The Song of Life Inspirational Poem
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Conversion Poem About the Love and Grace of God
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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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Baby Smiles – Poem About Parents Love and Raising Children
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Baby Smiles Poem About Parents Love and Raising a Child Beauty’s reflected in your eyes – a gift I never thought I’d actualize in my roller coaster ride of a life. But the moment you were born life changed, the desires of my heart were rearranged with you occupying the largest chamber and given unlimited…
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Like the Birds in Spring – A Love Poem For Her
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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
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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
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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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Silence Speaks Poem About Listening in Nature
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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
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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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Running Poem About Changing and Working on Yourself
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RunningCan I get a cup of wineto drown the time,to float away fromthis heavy heart of mine?Or perhaps a speedy carthat’ll take me fast so faraway from these expired dreamsnow void of stars?Maybe a boat to sail these seasthat swallow me with easeeach time the tide of my moodshelplessly carries me out with no reprieve?But…
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Beauty’s Elegy Poem About the Fake Life of the Digital World
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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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Satan’s Speech Christian Religious Narrative Poem
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Satan’s SpeechA Narrative Poem with Religious ThemesSatan stepped up to the podium,cleared his throat, and tapped the microphoneto address his legions of demons gatheredwith each new, human generationto discuss matters of military penetration.”It is no longer necessaryto corrupt good for evil,” he said.”It’s quite satisfactory to distractthe mind and heart from mission to resignation,carried away…
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Fasting in the Desert A Godly Poem About Contemplation and Selfishness
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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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