Belly-Shaking Worship



No these are not mere words
We’re done with games
Done with prescribed religious talk
Our gut growls
With the unsated hunger of searching
We’ve searched your Book
We’ve searched on our knees
We’ve searched the experiences of friends
And your footprint shows
But not your face
Not your kindly embrace.
You inhabit the praises of your people
You’ve told us that
You inhabit abandon
And brokenness.
And expectation.
And now “by prayer and supplication
With thanksgiving”
We come, and we come together.
Show us Lord, the reluctance
The unforgiveness, the pretension
The testiness and impatience
Pull out all the stops.
Please.
The diaphragm quivers
The face is wet
The phrases come with melody
And we are released
Into You.

About this poem

Captivating moments of honest worship.

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Written on March 14, 2018

Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 15, 2023

Modified by dougb.19255 on March 15, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJJKLMAMMENOMOPGAQRST
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 734
Words 127
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 29

Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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