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Poems

Comfort

Brian Kissock

Shortly after the terrorist bombing of 1998 in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the homeland of the author of this poem, Brian Kissock, recorded these words as a healing response to the grief that followed—including his own for several good friends who were lost in that tragedy.

Psalm: God's beauty

Hugh Pendexter III

Thou art beautiful, oh Lord, my God,Beautiful beyond the mortal dreamThat feebly imitates infinity:Blind atoms hurtle aimless through the voidOf solid matter; and gadding galaxiesCavort in billion-year-long cartwheelsThrough vacuous immensities of space;More beautiful than helical capriceOf molecules entwined in DNA.

Trusting

David C. Kennedy

Must we lend a handto guide the orbiting moon?

SOME BLAISDELLISMS

"If you take apicture of the BrooklynBridge, you're notgoing to get the EmpireState Building.

Peace versus war

June Fowler

Beyond the clash and splashOf angry human will,God's holy law demandsA "Peace, still!"

Dear neighbor, I love you

Gloria Onyuru

Dear neighbor, I love you.

Peace by peace

Karim Ajania

Do you know peace?

The 91st Psalm

He that dwelleth in the secret place of themost High shall abide under theshadow of the Almighty.

Exploring

Annie Becker

All the explorers sit in a row.

My safe place

Rachel Bailey

Big cousin,you keep me safe.

What was in the ark

Paul Fisher

was all that isand was and ever will be,

Columbia

—Julia Karr

We didn't know you,circling earth,an intermittent lightin our starry nights.