Amanda Lynn Jones

My Bones - The Dance With Trauma

This piece is a thematic writing I did after journaling one morning when I felt particularly troubled back in December of 2024. 

You would think that something terrible had happened but no. Not…

The Lord Way Up There

I wrote this poem on 10/24/2024. 

I pray to look up and up

When I’m weakened and weary

Of life in the rough

When I’m worn in the dreary

Up and up in the clouds…

I wrote this on June 22, 2024

If I had been there on that day

I wonder how I would have swayed

The day they yelled to crucify

The savior destined there to die

Would I have sold him out…

Dad's  Love  I  Never  Knew

There’s love I barely knew

I never quite outgrew

My heart still makes a painful sound

From years when dad was not around

I’m old enough and on my own

But somehow I still feel…

I wrote The Torment Away From God when I was suffering the harmful effects of religious and emotional abuse. I believed in a God that I had to earn my approval and love from. I thought I had to work…

This is a poem that reflects the struggle it is to accept abuse. I wrote this back in 2019 and was having the most difficult time placing blame on my abusers. I still believed that I was the problem because…

The pain I know is great, I think about my fate

I wish I didn’t feel this way, My soul is in it’s own decay

Disintegration started, With the child inside of me

neglect was there and charted, Although my…

This is a poem I wrote back in October of 2022. I don't know about you but I have the seasonal depression and triggers that hit right around that time of year. I grew up working a dairy farm and…

We all experience loss in life. I’d like to think that what we write can keep the memories alive of those we love. This is a poem dedicated to Justin. I’ve never been the same since you left this earth…

This is a poem I wrote back in 2019

The God above is whom I seek

The one so pure, so kind, and meek

His presence I cannot describe

No human words would satisfy

The lord must know what I…