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3 God poems
About poems addressed to God
A small shelf overlapping Religion, Faith, Prayer and Spiritual, all of which have more in them. What is worth saying is that the poems addressed directly to God are, almost without exception, arguments rather than praise.
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Herbert argues and loses; Hopkins argues and is not answered; Dickinson argues without ever deciding whether there is anyone there; Blake reassigns the whole role. Devotional poetry in English is a record of disagreement, not of assent.
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- George Herbert — Argues, and loses, and writes it down.
- Emily Dickinson — Never decides whether anyone is there.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins — Argues and is not answered.
- William Blake — Reassigns the role entirely.
04/28/2026 14:58h
A black God touched me today and I knew I was a poet. When I produce
poetry I am responding to a God who touched me in a perverse way. The
state of my text is an act of worship to a black female God that told me to
worship capital. From a business perspective my poetics is about
marketing a God who fondles with my white self. This is what makes my
poetry so friendly to the void in the world. I marketed a God who exploits
me to bring her message of panic to the poetry sector. I was watching a
Kenneth Anger film when a large aphrodisiac God converged on me and
told me to create a poem that pleases her. The results of her visit are
collected in books called Hit Wave and Right Now the Music and the Life
Rule. The text in these books is to give the audience hope for life today
because a black female God told me to.
12/22/2024 00:00h
God is good
i say it when things are good
i say it when things are not good
both are true at once
that's the faith part
10/25/2023 00:00h
I don't understand why things happen
i stopped trying to explain it
to myself or anyone else
i believe anyway
not in explanations
in grace