I began reviewing our Easter and Spring Poetry site. This year, I decided to reprint poems that readers seem to especially like in large bold print, with different images.
Easter and Spring Poetry 2022
Category: Grief
The Psalms and Short Poems
For the Psalms 2020 series, I worked with the King James Version of the Bible. I enjoyed reprinting some verses in the form of a short poem.
Two examples:
Be thou exalted, LORD,
in thine own strength:
so will we sing and praise thy power.
Psalm 21: 13
Post from March 29, 2020
Let the words of my mouth,
and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight,
O LORD, my strength,
and my redeemer.
Psalm 19: 14
Post from March 28, 2020
restful to read
restful to read
poetry books read before
Autumn morning
Perhaps because
perhaps because
it is Autumn
I think of my mother
the season when
her last illness
began many years ago
and the trees
outside her hospital
window
I read to her
from the Psalms
and poets she would
know from long ago
and new poets too
most of all
I remember her faith
and unconditional love
that is with me still
From the Psalms:
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty:
neither do I exercise myself in great matters,
or in things too high for me.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,
as a child that is weaned of his mother:
my soul is even as a weaned child.
Psalm 131: 1 – 2
From Psalm 4
Hear me when I call,
O God of my righteousness:
thou hast enlarged me
when I was in distress;
have mercy upon me, and
hear my prayer.
Psalm 4: 1 (KJV)
I arranged the lines for this post, from the archives.
From Psalm 27
Wait on the LORD:
be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart:
wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalm 27: 14
Poem Inspired by Psalm 103
writing and reading
I don’t see the dust
then seeing
I remember
and know He does not forget
and understands
with Love
Psalm 103: 14 (KJV)
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth we are dust.
Reprinted from the archives
Poems From Psalms And Nature
Ellen Grace Olinger
Poems From Psalms And Nature 