3 Prayer Poems

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 86

The Lord longs to hear all of our concerns — any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~Corrie Ten Boom

Conversations with God,

Beautifully spoken prayers

Echo on cathedral walls

And no matter how softly uttered

God hears them one and all

But there is no prayer so lovely

As the prayer of a heart in need

Hungry for healing

And longing for a certain peace

 So cast your prayers to heaven

Like hungry fishermen at sea

Belt it out in a wheat field

Or in a garden on your knees

For some sit in pews only on Sundays

To say their weekly prayers

But God longs for us daily

To commune with him our every care.

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A Poet's First Prayer,

Give your heart to something true

Pray hard for wings to fly

Remember when you were nine years old

With faith bigger than the sky

Father was nowhere to be found

And mother was too weak

I learn to pray for something more

For a life I wished to keep

When I was at the age of ten

I decided I wanted to be a nun

Living a life of sacrifice

Being true to everyone

Then one day I wrote a poem

And I felt hope within my breasts

A prayer I prayed in silence

Was answered and I was blessed

The freedom of having a voice

was a gift from beyond this world

that carried me over mountains

to a woman from a girl.

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Prayers & Sparrows,

Prayers and sparrows

Fly sure and true

Feathered in lovely hope

We do not always see it

But away they surely go

The flight of miracles

Tender but still not tame

But though we do not see it

it happens just the same.