Poetic Responses to Psalms and ScriptureGlorify the Lord with me. Together let us praise his name. I sought the Lord and he answered me; from all my terrors he set me free.
Ps. 34:3-4
Come with me to the playhouse my father built in the backyard. Come, play this game of being family—mommy, daddy— with imaginary plates to carry our food, together, here inside these plain plank walls.
I’ll eat first, then you take a bite. The grassy floor holds up more than the two of us. Mother’s peach tree leans near the fence to the neighbors’ yard, and beyond that live even more people.
Just wonder, on any sunny day, are we not the only children who look into each other’s faces wanting company?
-- 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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