Loss Prayer Poems

I never buried certain names,
They lingered like a scent in air.
I whispered them through window panes
And found them waiting everywhere.

I never buried childhood roads—
The ones...

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Life is a flame on trembling thread, 
A whisper held by breath and light, 
Too oft ignored, too lightly said, 
Yet blazing fierce through day...

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When whispers rise, 'Pray for me,'
From lips that claim no they have no belief,           ...

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Cenotaph Memories

And silence fell around the stone buildings,
As thousands gathered to remember
And some to forget, friends and family lost,
No longer there to support,
Every heartbeat, a...

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everybody’s dying 

 everybody’s dying, everybody’s dying 
 in this world we call insane 
 and nobody knows it,  
‘cause it’s part of the...

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I like to think that you were there
when muezzin trills called to prayer.
Calm stillness drifted in au clair,
my thoughts were pining on the air.

I like...

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How long have you been alone
People used to gather around you
Helping each other
Praying to their God
But their God walked away
The doors were locked
And the windows...

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I stumble each day,
Praying to a God I now barely believe in.
The years of turning to my faith
Diminished
In the eye of insurmountable pain,
A loss so...

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In the dim light of a room, shadows cling tight,
A girl faces her fate, Stage III breast cancer in sight.
With courage so soft, and grace...

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Lord please, hearest now my prayer,
and set thine angelic wings around me,
so that I may no longer be dismayed,
that I may no longer be afraid.

But...

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The Lord is my master;
I shall not want.
He makes me plough a small 
farmland;
He leads me beside as I sow to reap.
He restores my strength;
He...

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Amidst the chaos, the wails and the screams,
Destruction abounds, shattering my dreams.
I cry out in anguish, but the noise never ends,
Longing for peace, for this...

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The present darkness threatens.
Why can’t I see the light?
And yet my faith still lingers
Like a flame of candlelight.
The weakened short wick struggles
And nearly smothers out
While...

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"Know that Christ is always with you,

TO: those who got their first boo-boo
Those who want to win a race
Those who want to pass the driving...

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Words slip through my hands;
life crumbles like wet sand, and
I, sit still, and sob.

My tender heart bleeds -
at injustice near and far,
that one can't carry.

We...

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