Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONFESSIONAL, by KATHARINE MCCLUSKEY


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CONFESSIONAL, by                    
First Line: I do not kneel at night, to say a prayer
Last Line: He laughs and says he made me as I am!
Subject(s): God


I do not kneel at night, to say a prayer;
I think of spiders and I do not dare!

My knees are thin, and easily they could
Gather a splinter, roughened from the wood.

I'm cold, and bed is warm; I'm better there,
Than in the outer darkness of a prayer!

But when the morning wakes up, pink and cool,
And sunrise makes our peach-blooms glory-full;

And God comes smiling down the garden-walk,
I run and slip my hand in His, and talk!

I tell Him that I am a naughty lamb;
He laughs and says He made me as I am!





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