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When I Call His Presents Over Me

My Jesus, Hears me when I call
He hears me when I am in trouble
Our Father guides and protects me
God sends His angels to guard and watch o'ver me
I can feel, I can feel their presents over me

Oh!, Lord God I remember
My Lord Jesus I surrender
All of my misgivings
I've, I have been forgiven
I can feel, I can feel the presents over me

Give me Father your partition
Grant me Father your heart
In a new beginning, in a brand new start
I will turn myself around and rejoice
I can feel, I can feel the presents over me

Please God forgive me I am sorry
For those sins and wrongs I've done
Now I know Lord you saving me your anointed one
And the saving strength of His right hand
Shall heal and save the lands

I can feel, I can feel the presents over me

inspired by Psalm 20:1-6
written by James Edward Lee Sr.

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Something Over the Horizon

Something over the horizon
It just keeps me going
He stands beside me in my unbelief and my beliefs
He watches over me in my sleep
Before I awaken dreams intact
Look around me you got my back
As I stand tall, in from of this wall
I've heeded my Savior beck and call
Yes! something over the horizon
Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior
Selah

1/19/18

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Introduction

The most compelling Munajat let a reader overhear private spiritual pressure without turning that pressure into spectacle. A voice may arrive ashamed, grateful, bewildered, adoring, or desperate; each phrase matters because it is directed toward a listener beyond the visible scene. On a community collection page, that intimate address becomes especially rewarding. One poem may feel hushed and inward, while another may gather the cadence and recurrence of a spoken chant.

As you read the community poems, notice the possible range within this shared devotional orientation. Some poets may build toward confession, others toward praise, petition, surrender, or renewed trust. One writer may rely on spare statements and meaningful pauses; another may use abundant imagery, parallel phrasing, or ceremonial language. Even poems concerned with similar spiritual questions can differ sharply in emotional temperature. Urgency, restraint, awe, remorse, and uncertainty each create a different relationship between speaker and addressee.

Reading beyond the first example reveals that the form's identity is not carried by subject matter alone. It emerges through the way the speaker approaches, withdraws, repeats, hesitates, and finally leaves the conversation. Compare several poets' approaches to discover how silence can suggest an answer, how repetition can deepen rather than merely restate a plea, and how private experience can become meaningful to an unknown reader. No isolated example can display all these possibilities. The collection offers a richer understanding because each poem tests a different balance among intimacy, reverence, emotional candor, and crafted sound.

Reading Guide

Read each poem as an event of address rather than simply a statement about belief. The central question is not only what the speaker thinks, but what changes because the speaker directs those thoughts toward a divine listener. Attend to approach, distance, hesitation, insistence, and release. Because the expected response may remain unspoken, the reader must also interpret pauses, turns, and tonal shifts as parts of the exchange. As you browse the poems in this collection, compare how each writer makes an inward spiritual encounter audible to others without losing its intimacy.

The shape of the address: Notice names, pronouns, invocations, and direct appeals. A clearly felt addressee can give even an abstract meditation dramatic tension. Ask: how quickly does the poem establish whom the speaker is addressing, and how does that relationship change?
The speaker's emotional movement: Trace whether the poem travels from remorse to hope, praise to petition, fear to trust, or certainty to questioning. This movement prevents devotion from becoming static declaration. Ask: what can the speaker say near the end that could not have been said at the beginning?
Intimacy and public utterance: Listen for the difference between a whisper-like confidence and language shaped for communal recitation. Neither approach is automatically stronger. Ask: does the diction make you feel like an invited witness, a fellow participant, or an audience?
Repetition and sonic return: Mark repeated words, syntactic patterns, invocations, or requests. Recurrence can resemble insistence, meditation, grief, or surrender, depending on its placement. Ask: does each return acquire new emotional weight, or does it merely duplicate an earlier statement?
Concrete imagery: Observe how physical details carry spiritual meanings. A threshold, wound, night sky, empty room, or washed hand may make remorse or mercy perceptible without prolonged explanation. Ask: which image remains in memory, and what inner condition does it embody?
Pauses, turns, and closure: Consider line breaks, stanza spaces, punctuation, and the final cadence. An apparent pause may imply waiting; an unresolved ending may preserve the mystery of response. Ask: does the poem conclude with an answer, a request, a vow, a silence, or a transformed way of listening?

After reading several examples, return to the openings and endings together. This comparison often reveals each poet's deepest choice: not merely what was said, but what the act of saying made possible.

Writing Tips

Begin a Munajat draft with a spiritual necessity, not a general topic. The speaker should have a reason to address the divine presence now: a failure that can no longer be disguised, gratitude that exceeds ordinary speech, grief seeking witness, or doubt that demands honest articulation. In workshop terms, identify both the immediate pressure and the desired change. The poem need not receive a clear answer, but the act of speaking should alter its emotional situation.

Choose material with relational stakes. A broad subject such as faith, guilt, or mercy is not yet a poem. Find the particular decision, loss, memory, or contradiction that has changed the speaker's relationship with the addressee. Specific pressure gives the supplication urgency.
Create a dramatic position. Decide whether the speaker approaches confidently, kneels figuratively at a distance, argues, confesses, praises, or struggles to speak. That posture can evolve. A convincing shift from resistance to openness is often more affecting than uninterrupted reverence.
Make confession concrete. One common beginner mistake is announcing unworthiness in generalized language. Instead of accumulating labels for guilt, show a consequence, withheld kindness, broken promise, recurring temptation, or moment of recognition. Particulars make repentance morally and emotionally credible.
Give praise an imaginative body. Grand adjectives alone can become interchangeable. Let praise arise through observed creation, remembered protection, surprising mercy, or a pattern of light, sound, weather, labor, or human care. An image allows reverence to be experienced rather than merely asserted.
Choose an intentional verbal architecture. Whatever stanzaic or sonic plan you adopt, let it answer the speaker's state. Balanced phrases may convey composure; accumulating clauses may suggest mounting need. Do not let visible patterning overpower the spiritual encounter. Structure should intensify attention, not advertise compliance.
Use repetition as development. A recurring appeal can begin as demand, return as admission, and end as surrender. Alter its context, punctuation, or surrounding imagery so that repetition registers change. Mechanical recurrence is especially noticeable in a poem whose chant-like qualities invite close listening.
Control diction and breath. Forced archaism or excessive ornament can make the speaker sound costumed rather than vulnerable. Read each line aloud and listen for where breath naturally shortens, catches, or settles. Line breaks can preserve urgency, hesitation, or contemplative quiet.
Earn the ending. Avoid attaching a convenient declaration of certainty simply because devotional readers may expect consolation. The strongest ending may be a vow, a softened question, an image of return, or attentive silence. Closure should reveal what speaking has changed while respecting what remains unresolved.

During revision, underline every abstract spiritual term and ask whether an image, action, or tonal turn gives it substance. Then read the draft aloud twice: once softly, as intimate address, and once with the projection of recitation. Revise any phrase that sounds persuasive on the page but false in the mouth. Finally, test the sequence of appeals and repetitions to ensure that the poem develops rather than circles without deepening.

Interesting Facts

Spiritual address can create drama without external action. A speaker may remain physically still while passing through resistance, remorse, hope, and surrender. The implied listener gives each inward change the pressure of an encounter rather than a solitary reflection.
Reciprocity does not require a quoted reply. A pause, revised request, sudden calming of rhythm, or changed image can suggest that the speaker has heard something inwardly. Leaving the response unstated may invite the reader to participate more actively.
The same repeated phrase can support opposite emotions. Spoken firmly, it may sound like insistence; surrounded by broken syntax, it may convey desperation; placed after a turn, it may become acceptance. Context determines whether recurrence intensifies or flattens the poem.
Private and communal voices can coexist. Intimate disclosure draws readers close, while patterned sound can make the words feel shareable or recitable. Managing that tension is difficult: excessive privacy can exclude the reader, while generalized ceremony can erase the individual speaker.
Brevity and expansion produce different devotional experiences. A brief poem can preserve the force of a single appeal. A longer one can enact repeated approach, withdrawal, confession, and return. In either case, length works best when it reflects the actual duration of the emotional struggle.
Particularity often sounds more reverent than ornament. A precisely observed action or remembered failure may carry greater spiritual weight than a chain of exalted descriptions. As you read the community poems, compare where each writer places the most concrete detail and how that choice affects credibility.

Popular Themes

Subject matter and form interact closely in Munajat because a spiritual concern changes when it is voiced toward an attentive presence. Regret becomes confession, admiration becomes praise, and uncertainty becomes a question with relational stakes. The subjects below are literary possibilities, not a statistical ranking of what appears most often. Each works when the poem discovers a necessary movement of thought, feeling, or conscience.

Repentance and moral repair: The directness of address can strip away self-justification. A poet can move beyond declaring guilt by examining harm, responsibility, and the difficult desire to become capable of different conduct.
Mercy and return: Distance from the sacred creates a natural emotional arc. Images of thresholds, roads, closed doors, washing, or dawn can dramatize the hope of restoration without turning the poem into an abstract lesson.
Praise through the created world: Weather, landscape, animals, human labor, and ordinary acts of care can become evidence of generosity or order. Such particulars keep praise sensuous and fresh rather than dependent on familiar exalted language.
Grief and absence: Address gives bereavement somewhere to travel, even when no answer arrives. The tension between appeal and silence can hold anger, longing, memory, and fragile trust in the same poem.
Doubt and spiritual distance: Honest uncertainty can intensify intimacy rather than cancel it. Questions, interrupted syntax, and changing forms of address allow a poet to dramatize the wish to believe alongside the experience of abandonment or confusion.
Gratitude after difficulty: Gratitude gains depth when the earlier danger, deprivation, or fear remains visible. The poem can show how relief changes perception rather than merely offering a list of blessings.
Collective conscience: War, injustice, hunger, communal suffering, or damage to the natural world can widen the speaker's responsibility. The challenge is to join personal accountability with concern for others without claiming to speak over their experiences.

Compare several community poems that touch related subjects. Notice how one poet turns grief toward protest while another turns it toward surrender, or how similar images support contrasting spiritual conclusions. Shared themes become illuminating when each writer discovers a distinct voice, pressure, and path through them.

Editorial Insights

The central artistic tension in Munajat lies between intimacy and exposure. The utterance must feel as though it matters to a divine listener, yet it has also been shaped for human readers. If it becomes too polished, private urgency may seem staged; if it remains entirely private, the reader may lack the particulars needed to enter it. Memorable poems negotiate this tension by allowing vulnerability to become intelligible without converting it into display. Their speakers do not merely announce devotion, remorse, or longing. They reveal what those states cost.

Structure feels necessary when it embodies the speaker's spiritual action. A refrain may return because the mind cannot release a plea. A long accumulation may resemble an inventory of failures or blessings. A sudden short line may register humility, shock, or the exhaustion following confession. Stanza spaces can mark waiting, while a change in syntax can signal that the speaker's relation to the addressee has shifted. Readers and editors notice when sound, pacing, and emotional development reinforce one another. They also notice when a decorative pattern continues after its expressive purpose has ended.

A technically recognizable posture is not enough to make the poem memorable. Predictable devotional phrases may state acceptable sentiments while revealing little about the speaker's actual struggle. Forced ceremonial language can conceal emotion rather than elevate it. Mechanical repetition weakens the sense of listening, and over-explanation leaves no room for silence or inference. Another frequent weakness is insufficient development: the ending repeats the opening conviction without showing any pressure, discovery, resistance, or transformation between them. Even a short poem benefits from an inward turn.

Individuality survives shared conventions through the precision of attention. One poet may speak through domestic images, another through landscape, argument, memory, bodily sensation, or restrained abstraction. Distinctiveness also appears in what the speaker cannot say, what is repeated, and what remains unanswered. Compare multiple community poems before deciding what quality looks like in the form. Side-by-side reading makes it easier to distinguish inherited devotional vocabulary from a living voice, ornamental recurrence from meaningful return, and uncomplicated declaration from an encounter that continues to resonate after the final line.

Read, Write & Share

Read beyond the first example and allow several community poems to speak to one another. Compare how their speakers approach the divine listener, where their emotional turns occur, and whether repetition, imagery, or silence carries the greatest weight. A thoughtful comment might identify a line of movement, a memorable image, or a shift in tone that changed your reading.

Then try shaping your own urgent address. Write from a particular need rather than a generalized idea, revise it aloud, and publish the finished Munajat on PoetrySoup. Your interpretation can extend the conversation while giving future readers another approach to consider.

Collection Statistics

This collection currently contains 7 Munajat poems, offering multiple interpretations and useful opportunities for close comparison. Readers can consider how poets may follow, adapt, or challenge the form's conventions while preserving a sense of intimate spiritual address. The collection is compact enough for poem-by-poem attention, making it possible to revisit openings, repetitions, tonal turns, imagery, and endings across the complete set.

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