Poems and Prayers

SLOW GRACE ©
Lord, spare me the pomp and the circumstance,
Lest I color your gifts and good faith lose my glance
In the duty, the song or the happenstance
Come upon me instead of your love.
For I am but a vessel too earthy
And my motive too often unworthy
Needing all and then more, just Your mercy
To accomplish the simplest of tasks.
Look me then as a creature most lowly;
Take all visions of higher or holy;
Let me see what is passing more slowly,
To find in us Your heavenly Grace.
2011.02.02. ©
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ONE ©
Pray, Abba, Father.
Pray, Brother, Jesus
Pray, Paraklitus
Our comfort to cope.
God of creation,
Word of the same,
Son and salvation
In love for us came.
Spirit, the challenge.
Holy and Ghost.
Pure inspiration
Beyond us the most.
Pray mother, Mary.
Pray Holy Angels.
Pray Saints in heaven
Our help and our hope.
Pray for the suffering.
Pray for the fight.
Pray the triumphant,
We all share the Light.
Born worldly spirit,
Life but a breath,
End in a heartbeat,
Dust unto death.
Holy communion,
Reunion again.
All one thanksgiving
With praise the refrain.
2011.02-06.2300.10f ©
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Prayer Informal and Imperfect ©

I am sorry I am much too informal today
As I try my self to engage and to pray.
At Your feet then my sins and defects I must lay
That we each may be sated in time.
I thank You for all blessings seen and unseen.
I praise You for all wonders to come and have been
And I ask that ere long from my weakness You’d wean
This poor man (woman) in his (her) struggle and strife.
Because in all things in the greater their scheme
We must work as one, both alone and a team
To share all the fare, both the fat and the lean
That is found human, imperfect life.
2011.02.14.0700 ©
Psalm 19: 10-15 (Psalmus 18)