Strength Prayer Poems

How I Pray, Psalm of Flight

(C) sally Young Eslinger 8/2020


Sitting there across from
My perhaps sleeping, I wonder
Do you ever wonder, during these
Long hours, where I...

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I bequeath to my heart none else then pure love 
and in the meantime all that is me around me and inside me  ...

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I fly on wing of song.
Twenty-three miles out of Atlanta
soaring like an eagle traveling from DC
thirty-six thousand miles high
Fly, fly away
Through the blue hues of...

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Wishful Wonder

If you make a wish a thousand times to know the secret of the skies.
Will it take ‘til the cock crows for the elephant...

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Can I ask you dear Lord, only if you have the time?
Our world leaders need some help, they are in quite a bind
Could you throw...

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When you think-Courage,                      ...

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Scarlet dreams burn through my thoughts
Whispering soft sensations of compassion
Soothing my heart with feelings of hope
Coloring my ideas with hues of inspiration
Belief in the moments...

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Overwhelmed

Sometimes it feels like it will never be OK
It goes on and on and on
Darkness creeps in and you cannot see the light
Prayers seem to...

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Inspired by these lines: “Father, I stretch my hands to thee. No other help I know.”
from the hymn of Charles Wesley: "Father, I Stretch My...

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I’ve been walking this road such a long time we run parallel but you turn the other way.Can’t I even have this one thing?
I used...

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You've brought me here to this place in my life
And I don't understand why.
The frustration weighs me down so much
That all I can do is...

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Torn from head to limb
Strength not enough to fight 
Hope lost in transition
Hands stretching to climb
To a pinnacle of reverence 

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Great Jehovah 

(Set to John Williams Schindler's list theme)

Great Jehovah, as we weep
We turn our hearts to thee.
As the storms of evil sweep us
In your...

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Obstinance, indifference, blind tendentiousness towards one's own self. These are all the shattering of my scattered thoughts of myself and you today.

Just as I woke...

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