Poems Posing As Saints

This is a book of poems I conceived of when I was ill and uncertain as to whether or not I would recover. Most of the poems are acrostics using a saint's name. In some cases the poem has a connection to a saint and in some cases it does not. In the cases where the poem has a connection to a saint, I include a biography on the saint as a backstory to the poem. Several of the poems are in the form of a dialogue with Saint Clare. My motivation for writing the poems in the...
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This is a book of poems I conceived of when I was ill and uncertain as to whether or not I would recover. Most of the poems are acrostics using a saint's name. In some cases the poem has a connection to a saint and in some cases it does not. In the cases where the poem has a connection to a saint, I include a biography on the saint as a backstory to the poem. Several of the poems are in the form of a dialogue with Saint Clare.

My motivation for writing the poems in the first place was that I hoped that some saint in heaven might enjoy reading them and pray for me to get well, or if they hated the poems then I hoped they would ask God to heal me just so that I wouldn't write any more bad poetry.

Most of the poems are acrostics using a saint's name. In some cases the poem has a connection to a saint and in some cases it does not. In the cases where the poem has a connection to a saint, I include a biography on the saint as a backstory to the poem. Several of the poems are in the form of a dialogue with Saint Clare.