Students Prayer Poems

   	        Heart Gentle, Eye Mindful

College journalism students were challenged with their first
on-the-street assignment: Ask a...

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    ~~~Happy Passover to All Jewish Poets~~~~

This Passover, recalls the Exodus! 
Let us never forget all those innocent i, 200
lives taken, on...

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From the heart, words pour out
Silent thoughts – prayers – memories
Endless doubts and insecurities
Blessings loud and sorrows in clouds
Melancholic verbs, imaginations
Heard by the voice of...

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Epitaph for My Father, an Everyman

(Written with John Hughes in mind, 
      as he will understand)

One night in particular, I...

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The summer before my senior year of college 
I had the internship of my dreams
Was poised to apply to the best graduate programs in my...

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OCTAVE:
LORD, as morn yields to noon (or dawn) my SONnet will please, tease, release:
I greet thee, having access to Your throne by Jesus
And His sacrifice...

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We lift up our eyes to the One whose throne is in heaven,
the eyes of servants looking to the face of their Master.
Eyes searching for...

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I found a pecan on the ground
I picked it up when no one was around
Sitting in the hall outside of class crying because her classmates...

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I
Midterm exams are here, and I want to pause
O no, can't do that, unless I pause to pray
They are young and retired folks, too, studying
Various...

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Jesus we ask you for the strength to go on.
In the face of all sorts of evil spirits that would kill our own joy with...

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I have been to places of great death:
walking the battlefield at Gettysburg,
as a lusty young man of no firm belief
who stepped between the great rocks
of...

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USE ALL OF ME


Father God,
Kindly use all of me today...
Again, I say to You God---
 use all of me today.

I am no preacher God 
but...

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What If We Had Prayer In Schools Today?

What if we had prayer in schools today?
And the students were allowed to pray?

What if the students read...

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Loud Chants, rattling of Bells during 
"Aarti" in Temple
"Azaan" in Mosque
"Mass" in Church
 
is heard by PEOPLE ..... 

But
also heard by 
Sick, Elederly people
Students preparing...

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Calling on Karen:
Come to the water
In majesty after the fire;
Fourth degree flare refreshed a memory.
Undaunted hero of my heart inspired dreams of liberation.

Calling on Karen:
To...

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