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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Scarlet Clouds
A lament Scarlet clouds On orange-splashed skies A doomsday’s morning After a tortured night Blood drenched tears On a pillow of white Misery’s dying embers In the morning reignite An oppressive night Leading to an oppressive day These blood-red clouds Are here to stay Continue reading
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Let It Out
Let it out All the pain inside Stop suppressing There’s no need to hide Out in the open It can be understood You can gain perspective See what you should And finally you can feel A sense of inner peace Can begin to heal Have a sense of release That pain that tortured you For Continue reading
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Brokenness
Broken shards in hand Cold tears run down sharp edges All of us have scars Cracks in our inner treasures We hide them in a cupboard Wish they would go away God comes in His mercy And makes a beautiful mosaic Continue reading
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Write a Poem
Write a poem Hide it in your heart Read it to yourself As the skies grow dark Engrave the wretched words Onto a small, smooth stone Put it in your pocket Take it everywhere you go Hide the words away Lock them in a journal Gather up the embers Feed that inner inferno Let the Continue reading
Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing -
Lava Flow
His Love is a lava flow Making its way towards us Over hills and mountains There’s no obstacle it won’t cross It overwhelms our excuses Our hesitations to come to Him It incinerates the walls of condemnation It burns the barrier of sin Our fear is driven out Constructions of addiction brought down Ancient stores Continue reading
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Graveyard
Must there always be pain In the centre of my heart? The more I dig up The more I realise it’s just the start A black hole in my soul It seems to be stretching A ripped canvas inside Torn by tortured sketching It seems my heart Is actually a graveyard Buried dreams, traumas, emotions Continue reading
Anger, Bitterness, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trauma, Writing -
The Past
A lament I fear the slippery slope I fear the gradual slide I fear gravity’s grip I fear what is behind Is my past attached to me? Are the chains still there? Can I escape its clutches Or more fruit will it bear? I yearn for a future Where I am free No longer looking Continue reading
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Burning Coals
Anger in my hands Burning coals to which I hold Will I free myself from pain? Will I choose to let it go? For it is in forgiveness That I release my soul The heavy burden is relinquished And I escape the dark hole As the burned skin on my hands Slowly becomes whole It Continue reading
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Directions
Switch off the sat nav We know better Warning signs scream But we ignore the red letters We swerve off the trail Follow our own desires We get lost in dark woods Get stuck in a mire The car judders to a halt The engine breaking down We finally break our silence And to God, Continue reading
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Understanding Pain
The pain in me is searing I feel it in my chest A blade of pure misery Carved from cruel intent The pain batters my mind Like waves on an isolated rock My brain shuts down It can’t take the shock But these painful hurts Are cries within me I need to listen to them Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 