![[banner-alp-1.png]] # 🪶 Poems & Prayer Poems ✨ _These poems dwell where prayer often begins: in unanswered questions, in personal and shared suffering._ 🕯️ Bring a light. The darkness is real, but so is the One who walks with us. --- > [!example] I Write Very Simply > A poem about how and why I write. 🌱 > [[i-write]] > `📅 Published: 2026-06` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] Cake-Shaped > Too much. Not enough. A poem about being exactly who God made you to be. 🌱 > [[cake-shaped]] > `📅 Published: 2026-05` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] The Altar of Paperwork and the Sacred Song > The trauma wound — a prayer-poem from the borderland of wound and wonder. 🌱 > [[the-altar-of-paperwork]] > `📅 Published: 2026-05` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] USA Citizen > Poem inspired by a memory. 🌱 > [[usa-citizen]] > `📅 Published: 2025-09` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] Haunting > Poem inspired by J's visit to Poland. 🌱 > [[haunting-poem]] > `📅 Published: 2025-04` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] Blinding Lights > Poem inspired by the Super Bowl, and current news. 🌱 > [[blinding-lights|Blinding Lights]] > `📅 Published: 2025-06` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] A Reimagining of Matthew 25 > A Reimagining of Matthew 25. 🌱 > [[matthew-25-reimagined]] > `📅 Published: 2025-09` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] Fear Of Being Found Dead in Her Bathrobe > A poem about the gears that keep turning, even outside your head. 🌱 > [[fear-of-being-found-dead-in-her-bathrobe]] > `📅 Published: 2026-06` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` > [!example] This Does Not Have a Happy Conclusion. > A meditation on suffering that doesn't resolve, and looking to Christ crucified when it doesn't. 🌱 > [[this-does-not-have-a-happy-conclusion]] > `📅 Published: 2026-07` > `✍️ Author: A Little Pilgrim` --- [[Ponderings|🌿 Ponderings and Little Notes]] ➞ ✨ This note is part of [[home|A Little Pilgrim]] — *A digital quiet place for words, prayers, and barefoot pilgrims.*