Poem-A-Day: Prayer by Robert Glück

Prayer by Robert Glück     Dear Lord Show me The way-- Take My heart And throw It away   Lord, take My heart And throw It out   Lord, throw My heart Way out       Copyright © 2013 by Robert Glück. Used with permission of the author.     About This Poem "Typically we put our hands together when we pray. I wanted to make a prayer in which the hands are thrown wide apart in a wish for loss of self. Although the poem is parsed out in short lines, it is rhymed and metered like a stanza from a blues song."   --Robert Glück Most Recent Book by Glück Denny Smith (Clear Cut Press, 2003)                   June 28, 2013 Robert Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry and fiction. He co-founded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco in the 1980s and served as director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, as well as co-director of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center. He lives in San Francisco. Related Poems How Much? by Carl Sandburg Not by Sophie Cabot Black Song After Sadness by Katie Ford Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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