Amy Secrist

Tag: Catholic poetry

  • Lonely Writer’s Song

    “When my spirit is failing within me, still, Lord, you know my paths.” ~ Psalm 142:4 The middle of the day is dead of night to me, the evening even more; But Lord, you know my heart, my mind, my soul; you are near me upon this desolate shore. When everything is darkness, when everyone…

  • Lessons from the Baby Guru (I)

    Flecks of black dirt dot the skin beneath his bottom lip as he holds aloft the pink geranium, by the blooms, its white ceramic pot nearly empty on the cement step. He is proud: “Look!” “Look!” How many times have I grabbed a moment by its bloom and yanked it straight up and out of…

  • Praying the Right Prayer

    “You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.” ~James 4: 3, 10 I hold the steamer’s heavy base awkwardly in my left hand wielding the window attachment in my right. Steam pours through the cotton pad. From…