Anger Anxiety Authenticity Bitterness Christ Christian Poetry Creativity Depression Determination Disappointment Easter Emotions Expression faith Fear Forgiveness Friendship God Gratitude Guilt Haiku Healing Hope Joy Lament Love Pain Peace Perfectionism Perspective Poetry Reading Redemption Regret Rejection Resilience Rumination Shame Stories Thankfulness Trauma Trust Truth Worship Writing
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Dawn & Dusk Intro
I write poems of light and dark. From the darkness of my experience of depression to the light of my faith and hope in Jesus Christ. On some days, my poems feel like a brightening dawn. On others, like a deepening dusk. But always I hold on to the truth. That the light will overcome… Continue reading
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Scar of Ink
Black markings On the page Slowly contort Twist and change Shaped by sorrow Into a scar of ink Paper crinkling With a wicked wink This congregation of letters Gathers to speak To bear witness to the pain And to bring relief The bruised paper breathes After a writing session Knowing the shadows in the mind… Continue reading
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A Thousand Words
I feel like I have A thousand words in me But this stubborn mouth Refuses to speak I feel like there is A galaxy in me But a black hole won’t let The light break free Characters rattle Rant and rave in my head And yet their stories Cannot be shared I have so many… Continue reading
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My Sacred Place
I am retreating from This unstable world To a sacred place To unveil my pearls To bring the deepest Parts of me Presenting these gems As a precious offering In the stillness Of the stone architecture My hurt is soothed By the smell of sweet nectar And a golden warmth Fills the room And wraps… Continue reading
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Cape Hope
I arrive at last On the golden shores After a journey that left My very heartstrings torn I revel in the warm sand That clings to my feet After sailing so close To a terrible defeat I have nothing but The clothes on my back For I forsook all I had To get this one… Continue reading
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Writing Retreat
Sullen clouds gather Great swells of tears As I go to shelter In my retreat so dear A secret home Of comfort and peace Where my creative nature Can be unleashed Storms rage And thud on the glass But they cannot distract me From my joyous task And as I write My home enlarges As… Continue reading
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Flowing Words
I place my words On a boat And with a gentle push I let them go My hopes, my dreams My pains, my screams I allow them to flow Down the winding streams My lakes of peace Had choked with algae Became a frothing cauldron Of spiteful envy Now this river of thought Cleanses my… Continue reading
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Desert Flower
Desert winds Harbinger of death Lilac flower wilting In the desert’s hot breath The velvet petals Are cruelly ripped Dignity unravelling As the plant is stripped The swirling sands Like a veil, drop And the flower sees What it has become It is a rag-doll skeleton A twisted scarecrow A creaking, cracked signpost Of misery… Continue reading
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Stewing Sadness
A poem brews In a hidden room My hunched back cracks As I stir the giant spoon I am marinating in misery Stewing in sadness Feeding this frothing pot Of anger and madness So then I add A powerful ingredient That can redeem these musings From their malfeasance And this pot of Writhing misery and… Continue reading
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My Heart Chapel
A passing storm Smashed my glass Exposing my inner sanctuary To the wind’s wrath My place of worship My life of service Became a desolate Place of cursing You took the individual Shards of glass And gave me colours That honoured my past Now my chapel Is blazing with colour As we begin rebuilding Standing… Continue reading
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Spiralling
Twisting staircase Writhes beneath me Takes me away from Where I want to be The steps clatter As it wiggles and worms Laughing at me As it continues to squirm The handrails wrap around And squeeze my hands As I rotate in ways Even a gymnast could not understand Finally the staircase Relents from its… Continue reading
