Anger Anxiety Authenticity Bitterness Christ Christian Poetry Depression Determination Disappointment Easter Emotions faith Fear Forgiveness Friendship God Gratitude Guilt Haiku Healing Hope Joy Lament Love Pain Perfectionism Perspective Poetry Pride Reading Redemption Regret Rejection Rumination Shame Temptation 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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Price of Writing
There is a cost To these poems I write A searing pain A heavy price A bagful of experiences That I trail behind This is the only way I’ve found To get them out of my mind The imagery may seem vivid The emotions so deep But remember these are my tears This is how Continue reading
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Desert Flower
Desert winds blow Bringing dryness and death The budding flower cracks In this blast of hot breath There is no shelter The soft petals are ripped Pink torn into brown shreds As the plant is slowly stripped The dry winds ease And the swirling sands drop And the flower can now see What it has Continue reading
Bitterness, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Trust, Writing -
Robbery
You stole it from me My first and only love You took my passion from me As if you weren’t punishment enough You took my dream And crushed it in your hand All the worlds I had imagined You brought to a sudden end Characters I had created Nurtured and watched grow You snatched them Continue reading
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The Dunce Hat
We hear our name In every conversation we pass by We feel the pounding pressure Of the glare of every eye Thoughtless words Nestle in our hair Form a hat of humiliation That we feel forced to wear But it is only in our mind That this marker exists It is made from a substance Continue reading
Anxiety, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing -
Temporary
A relentless treadmill Which cannot be stopped Being punched by a boxer Who you cannot block A screaming creature At every sunrise Weights strapped to your legs When you’re paralysed An emergency alarm blaring But the help won’t come An approaching darkness Heralded by deep bass drums A bottomless pit Threatening to swallow you whole Continue reading
Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing -
Spinning
Thoughts revolving In my head I am dizzy from their spin Darkness swirling Creates a whirlpool That tries to sucks me in Bitter remarks Beat me down Break my self-esteem Constant critiques And overthinking Create an awful din I pause I stop And lift my head up See the world That spins around me And Continue reading
Anxiety, Christ, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Rumination, Writing -
Redemption
A short poem on hope Pain and suffering Groans and tears Can birth trees of hope That last for years Continue reading
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The Tap
Open the tap Let the words flow out Wash away your dark feelings Let the stale waters spout Release the pent-up frustration Let that fall by the wayside Then collect the pure water that follows Let that be your guide Words that will build up your reader Inspire those who’ve stopped There are so many Continue reading
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Shocked By Pain
It has finally hit me The scale of what I’ve faced The seriousness of the challenge The scars that cannot be erased I had numbed it out In the day-to-day battle to survive I had buried that truth In a dark place inside But it now washes over me Like a towering ocean wave I Continue reading
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Morning Dread
A lament This sucks There’s no other way to put it My head is pounding I am stuck in a cesspit Energy drained Like water from a sink A weight on my mind So I can barely think A day stretches before me It seems so long I can’t quite understand How the night is Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 