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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Facing Disappointment
A crushing darkness All around A bone-chilling silence That smothers all sound This is what life is like After so many rounds of despair The sharpest of agonies Is that of a soul rent bare It darkens your mind Darkens your very soul It sucks the joy out of everything Erodes your drive towards your Continue reading
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Dark Colours
I prepare the paint Venom blacks and brooding greys There will be no light colours On my palette today I will whip up a tempest With this tortured paintbrush Create a whirlpool of misery Into which I am sucked To the howling nights I will yield my soul Let that dark fury Be expressed in Continue reading
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Deep Roots
A haiku on scars Life has left its marks But my roots go deeper now Faith blooms in trials Continue reading
Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, God, Gratitude, Haiku, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Trust, Writing -
Struggling
A lament I am exhausted I am run down I fight every day To pick myself off the ground The duvet wraps around me In an iron grip My legs are weak and trembling My mind can barely think Every day I dig deeper Into reserves I didn’t know I had Every day I find Continue reading
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Crucifixion
A short poem on Easter Gushing blood flows down Roman nails leaving harsh scars Price for sin fully paid God and man no longer apart Continue reading
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Christ
A haiku on Easter Silent as a lamb Mocking crowds hurled their insults He had the last word Continue reading
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Sacrifice
A short poem on Easter Guilty cried the crowd Though no charges they could bring The only pure Man Chose to die for our sin Continue reading
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Black Sky
A haiku on Easter The sky became black One parental bond broken Ours fixed forever Continue reading
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