I kept it secret.

I kept it secret.

"Face To Face" Archive

Poetic Responses to Psalms and Scripture

O happy the man to whom the Lord

imputes no guilt,

in whose spirit is no guile.

I kept it secret and my frame was wasted.

Ps. 32:2-3

Thoughts snake,

hatched after weeks of brooding.

They bite themselves

to keep company.

Is this a maze?

You

call me out.

I’m mucking blind

with such a headache.

To be free

it’s understood:

I must tell someone.

You already know,

Friend.

Still,

I hate to mention it.

-- By: Ms. Karen Jessee, OP - - a member of the Dominican Laity, St. Mary Magdelene Group in Raleigh, NC. She writes and teaches, living with her husband and children near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Face to Face Archive

Please click on a Title below for Karen's "Prayer Poems":
(The newest ones are listed first.)

• Certainty •
• Together let us •
• I kept it secret. •
• His will in their minds •
• Make my ears new •
• On the day I called •
• Let God arise •
• Though I have spoken •
• Show yourself perfect •
• Praise Is Fitting •
• Upright •
• Into the desert •
• He Stooped Down To Me •