I have spoken to different groups about the use of poetry in prayer. Poetry seeks an emotional or sensual response rather than an intellectual. Because it operates more at the level of our affect than our intellect, it can help us attain a heart-felt, affective knowledge of God’s presence and love.
I came across yesterday a site that collected a number of poems for prayer during the Easter season. here is one of them, The Death of Death by Scott Cairns.
Put fear aside. Now
that He has entered
into death on our behalf,
all who live
no longer die
as men once died.
That ephemeral occasion
has met its utter end.
As seeds cast to the earth, we
will not perish,
but like those seeds
shall rise again—the shroud
of death itself having been
burst to tatters
by love’s immensity.
You can find the whole collection, along with some wonderful suggestions for praying with poetry, here.
Creo en Dios! 