Henri Nouwen, Now & Then Podcast | Malcolm Guite, "Lifting the Veil"
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How to Write a Prayer Poem
The Psalms commanded my attention they seem to speak directly into this crisis so I kind of knew I would like to write a sort of prayer poetry. Instead of doing it with seven sonnets I did it with 150 pounds and it would mean of course that the whole thing would be a corona. He actually opens it and closes it with the lines dane at my address to christdane at my hands this crown of prayer and praise. The last line of the final sonnet is the first line of the first sonnet so it makes a crown or coronet. It's called La Corona because before we knew at coronavirus La Corona was called corona because it means crown
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