Poetry and Prayer

When does a poem become a prayer?

Each day I write and I pray, hopeful

tomorrow will shine a better day. For

today in my poetry I say what I need

to say. My prayer longs for tomorrow.

Rhyme or reason to be answered? I’ll

wait and see. There is, I have come to

know, a fifty-fifty chance of snow. (It

is that time of year after all.) And al-

though there may be a prayer invoked,

a wise man should always bet on the

odds. Good or bad, poetry is a sure thing.

Either way, there surely must be a god of

sorts involved in there somewhere. I figure

a prayer now and again certainly can’t hurt.

Chris Hanch 11-24-19