Let Us
Pray
Sketchbook is extending an invitation around the
world for submissions of prayer, inspiration and heart
felt encouraging poetry submissions for this new section
of the Sketchbook Journal.
Our goal is
to hear from all faiths and peoples on a Global Scale.
The more people who participate and read the more our
hearts will become one. Surely a heart that envelops the
world can make changes and differences in lives.
We can make
a difference and wipe away all the divisions that have
arisen because of different belief systems. Let us all
love and respect one another in one accord.
Please send your poems and prayers to: letuspray@poetrywriting.org
Reason A
Poteet, US
Butterfly
Cinquain
Acting in
one Accord
sharing
a kindred spirit
my brothers and sisters
one with God, the Father and Son
aligned
synchronized with the same pow’r Source
like a well-oiled machine
all parts on task
in sync
accord
harmonious
like a barbershop choir
each singing alone, together
sweet sound
fulfilling the prayer of our Lord
“that they may all be one
as we are one”
in tune
from Psalm 133
Participating Authors:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,
32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,
59,60,61,62,63,
Karin Anderson, AU; Sharon Auberle, US; Helen Bar-Lev, IL;
Zlata
Bogović, CR; Willie R. Bongcaron, PH;
Ralf Bröker DE; Lauren Byrnes US; Armando H. Corbelle, US; Sandra Corona,
US;
Doris Culverhouse, US;
John Daleiden, US;
Jon Davey, UK; Mary Davila, US; Carolyn Devonshire, US; Mark Dohle, US;
Joseph Farley, US; Seánan Forbes,
US; Rolland Fletcher, US; Hugh Fox, US; Victor P. Gendrano, US;
Heike Gewi, DE; Bernard Gieske, US; Phyllis Jean Green, US; S. A. Griffin,
US; Alegria Imperial, CA;
Munia Khan, BD; Angelika
Kolompar, CA;
Maude Larke, FR;
Thomas Lindsay, US; Martin Lothner, ZA; Franklin
Megalhaes, BR; Margaret D. McGee, US;
Catherine McGuire, US;
Joan McNerney, US; Tamara Mikell-Choudhury, US; Sandra
Martyres, IN; Malvina Mileta, CR;
Shanna Baldwin Moore, US;
Aju Mukhopadhyay IN;
Ruth Nott, US;
Karen O'Leary, US;
Sergio Antonio Ortiz, US;
Pravat Kumar Padhy, IN; Verica Peacock, CR/UK; Marija
Pogorilić, CR; Reason A Poteet, US;
Vera Primorac, CR; Julie Rogers, US; Iolanda
Scripca, US; Herbert Siegel, US; Johnmichael Simon, IL; Monica E. Smith, US;
Brian Strand, UK; André Surridge, NZ; Linda Sutton, AU; Katy Taylor, US; Craig Tigerman, US; Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic,
CR; Neal
Whitman, US; Emily Wierenga, CA; Ashley Wood, UK;
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, SG
Participating Countries: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,
Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Germany, India,
Israel, New Zealand, Philippians, Republic of South Africa,
Romania, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States
Pray for Americia Video
Karin Anderson, AU—Free
Verse: Lily of the Valley, Parallelogram de Crystalline
Poem: You Raise Us Up, Quatrains of rhymed Couplets: The
Hand of God
Sharon
Auberle, US—Free Verse:
Prayer for Village Earth
Helen
Bar-Lev, IL—Free
Verse: Lord of All, A Prayer, Attack, In the Hospital,
In the sulfur baths
Zlata
Bogović, CR—Free
Verse: My Prayer
Willie
R. Bongcaron, PH—Free
Verse: Sunday Poet, Charity From The Heart
Ralf Bröker DE—Free
Verse: Let
Us Pray
Lauren Byrnes US—Free
Verse The Grace Within the Relection
Armando H. Corbelle, US—Free
Verse: Every Breath . . .
Sandra Corona, US:
Haiga: My Prayer
Sandra
S. Corona, US—Am
I Lord? poem/art by Sandra S. Corona in slideshow
presentation
Doris
Culverhouse, US—Free
Verse: Embellish My Day
John Daleiden, US—Solo
Renhai: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness
Jon Davey, UK—Free
Verse: That Other Realm
Mary Davila, US—Rhymed
Quatrains: I'll Lay My Head, Anapaestic Tetrameter:
’Twas The Week Before Christmas
Carolyn Devonshire, US—Quatrain:
Crosses on Canopy Road
Mark
Dohle, US—Free Verse:
Spur Us Onward
Joseph
Farley, US—Free
Verse: Faith, Neo-Psalm 4, Neo-Psalm 11, Neo-Psalm 12,
Neo Psalm 17: Go forth and multiply, boldachin – n.,
homoiuosian, imprimatur, persnickety
Seánan
Forbes, US—Free
Verse: You are Love, You . . .
Rolland Fletcher, US—Haiku: Vietnam
Veteran Prayer
Hugh
Fox, US—Free
Verse: The Evidence, Raised
Victor
P. Gendrano, US—Free
Verse: Esperanza
Heike Gewi, DE—Rengay:
Balance
Bernard Gieske, US—Free
Verse: In The Beginning
Phyllis Jean Green, US—Free
Verse: Let us all Join Hands all Around the World
S. A. Griffin, US—Image
Poems: A Billboard Poem, god, a night light
Elizabeth Howard, US—Free
Verse: Bedside
Alegria Imperial, CA—Free
Verse: a beggar’s prayer, Sizes,
who but the heart
Munia
Khan, BD—Free
Verse: The Mystery of a Prayer
Angelika Kolompar, CA—Haiku
Maude
Larke, FR:
Psalm for Anger,
Sanctity, St. Paul
Thomas
Lindsay, US—Glory
To Glory
Martin
Lothner, ZA—Free
Verse: The missionaries toil in Africa
Sandra
Martyres, IN—Free
Verse: The Power of Prayer
Margaret D. McGee, US—Free
Verse: Prayer
Catherine McGuire, US—Free
Verse: Backyard Prayer, Sunday Matins
Joan
McNerney, US—Couplets:
Prayer, Free Verse: Queen of Heaven, Questions
Franklin Megalhaes, BR—Haiku
Tamara
Mikell-Choudhury, US:
Free Verse: Tasbih
Malvina Mileta, CR—Free
Verse: Prayers To Our Mother
Shanna
Baldwin Moore, US—Free
Verse: Live Aloha
Aju
Mukhopadhyay, IN—Free
Verse: Pure Love
Ruth
Nott, US—Quatrains:
The Hiding Place, Looking for God, No Man Is An Island?
Karen
O'Leary, US—Acrostic:
Decisive With God
Sergio
Antonio Ortiz, US—Tanka:
Thirst, Trees, Eternal song?
Iranian Flowers
Pravat
Kumar Padhy, IN—Free
Verse: Let Us Wish, Tender Age Bliss
Verica
Peacock, CR/UK—Psalm
of Praise
Marija
Pogorilić, CR—Free
Verse: To Follow the Lord
Reason
A. Poteet, US—A
Legacy For Life: A Collection of Christian Poems
Vera
Primorac, CR—Free
Verse: Be my Light
Julie
Rogers, US—Free
Verse: Living in the Temple, The Source, To Pray,
Supreme Being, Prelude to Peace
Iolanda Scripca, US—Free
Verse: Psalm of the Homeless
Herbert Siegel, US—Free
Verse: Where Do Prayers Go?
Johnmichael Simon, IL—Free
Verse: Prayer, A Capella, Catalonian Pyramid in
Jerusalem, Fog, Peace Lover
Monica
E. Smith, US—Quatrain:
Solitude, Free Verse: And Let the Rain Fall Down, God’s
Ear, You Call, Faith, Vesper, Trinity, The Weeping Tree,
The Voice of God
Brian
Strand, UK:
A Psalm
André
Surridge, NZ—Haiku,
Tanka
Linda
Sutton, AU:
Free Verse: Search Pattern, Christmas Pastorale
Katy
Taylor, US—Free
Verse: O Thou
Craig
Tigerman, US—Quatrain:
Tikkun Olam
Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic, CR—Free
Verse: Let Us Pray
Neal
Whitman, US—Free
Verse: Sitting Still: An Inter-Religious Dialogue,
Haibun: Elegy for Caroline
Emily
Wierenga, CA—Free
Verse: made to pray
Ashley
Wood, UK—Free
Verse: Beans
F. N.
Wright, US—Free
Verse: a prayer for peace
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé, SG—Narrative
Prayer Poems
