Poems, Psalms, and Prayers

Hymns, Hope, and Inspiration: a collection of poems, songs, hymns, psalms, and prayers

Thursday, November 20, 2025

In Oklahoma

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When you leave a Real City, as Gertrude Stein did, and go to  Oakland, as she did, you can say, as she did, there is no there, there.  When...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

The Theory of Prayer

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Not in the streets, not in the white streets Nor in the crowded porticoes Shall we catch You in our words, Or lock You in the lenses of our...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Driving in Oklahoma

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     On humming rubber along this white concrete, lighthearted between the gravities of source and destination like a man halfway to the moo...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

The One Who Turned Back

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The Ten Lepers, Jorge Cocco Sántangelo        (Luke 17:11-19) Ten shattered bodies cried out for mercy. Quaking voices carried across distan...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Template for Eucharist for Native American Heritage Month 2025 (All Saints' Readings)

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Hunger, Walter Ufer, 1919      Acknowledgement for the Land  standing as able       adapted from   All Saints’ Church, Minneapolis   Presid...
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Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Missouri. Jesus follower. Spouse. Mom of Three Young Adults and Three Dogs. Retired Teacher. Okie. Progressive. Musician. All photographs mine unless otherwise noted.
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