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  • Blog,  Poetry

    A Prayer for Stillness (Psalm 46:10-11)

    Christopher Francis / 27/08/2025 / 0 Comments

    (This is a repost.)   I need Your whispers To speak louder Than my complaints Your soft answers To turn away my wrath And offer restraint Your words To overtake my thoughts Your…

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  • Blog,  Poetry

    We Are All Guilty…And We Are All Sane

    Christopher Francis / 05/08/2025 / 0 Comments

    (This is a repost. I wrote this poem after losing my temper at an annoying co-worker one day.  It didn’t take long to realize the hypocrisy of my choice. We so often try…

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  • Blog,  Poetry

    The Widow Of Despair

    Christopher Francis / 11/07/2025 / 2 Comments

      Forty years of anticipation Four times as much longing Still she waits for emancipation From the pain her life brings. She bears scars She’ll never show, Hides secrets She thinks no one…

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  • Blog,  Poetry

    The Gloaming (Poetry Version)

    Christopher Francis / 05/04/2020 / 0 Comments

    In the twilight of faith In a darkening hour When the wick is all but spent I have become A reed bruised But not quite bent. With pain that screams louder Than the…

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  • Blog,  Poetry

    Whispering Fears

    Christopher Francis / 02/04/2020 / 0 Comments

    The whispering fears echo the loudest Reverberating through my mind Like ripples of trepidation That want to keep me off balance Doubt attempts to overwhelm me And crown itself the proudest Resident of…

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  • Blog,  Poetry

    A Prayer for Stillness (Psalm 46:10-11)

    Christopher Francis / 01/04/2020 / 0 Comments

        I need Your whispers To speak louder Than my complaints Your soft answers To turn away my wrath And offer restraint Your words To overtake my thoughts Your wounds to heal…

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    Effigy (Galatians 2:20)

    Christopher Francis / 05/05/2019 / 0 Comments

    I’m finally silenced But not enough to notice You Or abhor my swearing And all of its ever too grandiose reasons For treason against You. Am I beyond caring? Will apathy rule the…

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  • The Widow Of Despair
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