Good morning, God
Lord, in the hype over the Super Bowl and the excitement of our local basketball teams and wrestling matches was also a headline about students taking to the stage to recite poetry. Poetry, Lord, among high schools students? Isn’t this something only those who can’t play sports, only the “artsy” folks take part in?
No, Lord? No? You say that each person has poetry inside of them. You say that poetry runs the gamut from sonnets to rap, from the romantic to the rogue? You remind us that we even refer to people who are playing sports well as “poetry in motion” at times.
Lord, the hope for the “Poetry Out Loud” effort is that it will become as accessible, important and accepted as all of our spelling bees have become.
Thank you, Lord for the beauty of poetry, from free verse to the rhyming, and for those who risk to recite.
In Jesus name, Amen
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