Prayer
by Robert Glück
Dear Lord
Show me
The way--
Take
My heart
And throw
It away
Lord, take
My heart
And throw
It out
Lord, throw
My heart
Way out
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About this poem:
"Typically we put our hands together when we pray. I wanted to make a prayer in which the hands are thrown wide apart in a wish for loss of self. Although the poem is parsed out in short lines, it is rhymed and metered like a stanza from a blues song." —Robert Glück
by Robert Glück
Dear Lord
Show me
The way--
Take
My heart
And throw
It away
Lord, take
My heart
And throw
It out
Lord, throw
My heart
Way out
----
About this poem:
"Typically we put our hands together when we pray. I wanted to make a prayer in which the hands are thrown wide apart in a wish for loss of self. Although the poem is parsed out in short lines, it is rhymed and metered like a stanza from a blues song." —Robert Glück
1 comment:
You are an amazing poem collector. One of these days you'll start writing your own poems. You have the beauty of language stored inside you.
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