Poems

The breath of prayer

MAURICE JAY

The streetlamp pours its pale washacross the still wet bricks,and the summer's breezeis an eddying of invisible feathersacross my gazing face.

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In the morning...

ELIZABETH KEYES WILLIAMS

Peter, I know you—the wondrous joy when,led to the mount,you saw, you nearly understood!

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In heaven always ...

MARTHA SAGE VANG

Discouraged once again, lost in anguishFor what seemed the thousandth timeTo face recurring pain (relief often immediate)Only to come again,"What's left for me to learn, Lord?

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The eternal student

VIRGINIA THESIGER

A satire

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Holy Bible, book divine,...

John Burton

Holy Bible, book divine,Precious treasure, thou art mine:Mine to tell me whence I came;Mine to tell me what I am;

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Contemplation

STANLEY JOHN YORK

Teach me where I need to go.

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Breakthrough

PEGGY JEAN GOODRUM

Bright light, white, pure, beneficent.

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As brother to Zacchaeus*

CORA SLAUGHTER

I climb my sycomore tree,wholly lifted above crude crunch, mundane mutterings,to the free, uncluttered viewI seek.

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Thy will, not mine

KERRY M. KNOBELSDORFF

Ah, the fruitless, formless heaviness of indecision,That oversurging of pros and cons,That final tally of confusionYielding non-answerandStarting all over again.