Walterrean Salley Poems

Psalm for Meditation.

There is a familiar place
In the stillness,
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(Nostalgic Psalm: a quest for rest.)

O that I had the wings of a dove,
My soul would fly to be at rest
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(Psalm of Exhortation to Praise God.)

Let every glad heart
Sing unto the Lord.
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(A Prayer of Penitence.)

Lord, forgive my sins;
Do not remember them
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(A Psalm of Trust: prayer of the afflicted.)

Leave me not to walk alone
Thro' barren land and wilderness,
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(A Psalm of Supplication: the cry of
grievance in affliction.)

Life's painful impositions,
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A Psalm of Praise.

I praise you now,
O God of light.
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(A Song of Deliverance (September 8,1987) ,
*One of my four-pioneering psalms.)

When darkness was about me,
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(A Psalm for Meditation:
God's greatness, man's weakness.)

Oh Lord, how great you are;
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(Prayer-Psalm. A solemn plea for mercy and
guidance in the aftermath of September 11.)

Darkness like we've never known
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