Amy Secrist

Tag: Catholic poetry

  • A Fearless Prayer

    Roll away my stone, its name is doubt. Roll away my stone, its name is insecurity. Roll away my stone, its name is pride. Roll away my stone, its name is fear. Roll away my stone, my name is faith. Roll away my stone, my name is surety. Roll away my stone, my name is…

  • Every Song a Poem

    Poems are meanings, attempts at meaning-making, successes and failures and in-betweens. Sometimes we are alone. Sometimes we hear our children use phrases like, “outside of Time and Space.” These kinds of poems talk about life and its songs, our anthems, laments, and jubilations. They are creations and we are creators. God is Poet, ever-present, ever-creating meaning-maker.  …

  • We Wake To Hope (A Poem for My Husband)

    As if their bedrooms hung with vines all around they sleep and dream of fun and frightful things, nestled in blankets of soft straw and grasses, bedding made of cozy sticks and silent leaves. As if they were little wild things in their caves they wake and stretch their jaws with long yawns, their round faces…