Anger Anxiety Authenticity Bitterness Christ Christian Poetry Creativity Depression Determination Disappointment Easter Emotions faith Fear Forgiveness Friendship God Gratitude Guilt Haiku Healing Hope Joy Lament Love Mental Health Pain Perfectionism Perspective Poetry Pride Reading Redemption Regret Rejection Rumination Shame Stories 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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Frustration
A lament So many fears Of things I can’t control How can I fight A monster I do not know? I don’t know its weaknesses Where I can strike I am caught out by its tactics That overwhelm my mind I want to live a life Chasing after my dreams I fear being trapped in… Continue reading
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Cruel Words
Dark whisperings Incessant chanting Echo in my head My thoughts supplanting They chop down The tree of my esteem And smear mud all over The paintings of my inner dreams The words repeat Until they make me sing Their wretched tune Like church bells ring They’ve built their case Convinced me they were true Said… Continue reading
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Trust
A haiku on trust Let go of all else The pleasures that come with pain Trust in Him alone Continue reading
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Disappointment
Black pills gleaming Time for the daily dose Thrashing in the water Its vapours form thick smoke I know its taste Its bitter afterburn The spasms in the stomach As it begins to churn Two steps forward Three steps back I know the rhythm And pattern of this dance Time has conditioned me Steeled me… Continue reading
Anger, Anxiety, Bitterness, Christian Poetry, Depression, Emotions, Fear, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Poetry, Redemption, Writing -
Pain and Suffering
Pain and suffering Are all I know The rhythmic beatings Of its constant blows I don’t mind it anymore It’s just a part of life It keeps me focussed On the things that are right It tried to break me To crack my soul But it only allowed my Saviour To come in and make… 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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