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Poetic Responses to Psalms and Scripture


I thank you, Lord, with all my heart,

you have heard the words of my mouth.

 

On the day I called you answered;

you increased the strength of my soul.

 

                             Ps. 138:1a,3

 

I sent my daughter to school

without her raincoat,

again!

 

She'll canter home soaking wet.

I'll strain my wrist

yanking tangles from her hair.

 

If I bother my friends

it's no wonder,

ranting about these

and a hundred other worries.

 

But I can't phone them now.

My cell went dead last week

after I dropped it in a puddle.

 

My tongue flails

like a fire hose blasting water

with no one to hold it.

 

Still, today, I feel better.

The sun shines, proud of itself.

The sky beams. 

 

Dry.

 


-- By:  Ms. Karen Jessee, OP - - a member of the Dominican Laity, St. Mary Magdelene Group in Raleigh, NC.  She writes and teaches, living with her husband and children near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

 

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(The newest ones are listed first.)