#julia.writing

translation:

ila el abad el abeedeen, ameen: common formulation to end a prayer. "forever and ever, amen"

merci Seigneur, de l’avoir appelée à toi: thank you Lord, for calling her to you

ya Rab, barek el taree’, barek el siyyara, barek el ta’es, barekna: Lord, bless the road, bless the car, bless the weather, bless us

this isn't quite escapril, because my friend and i cobbled together a few prompts from both old iterations of escapril and our minds, so that's why i'm not calling it that. today's prompt was hometown, but as you can see i didn't quite stick to that (but hey! prompts are there to provide inspiration, not necessarily just to have a poem that fits them exactly. this a rule i have just made up).

was talking to a girl i met at my friend's youth group about how i wanted to write poetry about God but i felt like everything had already been said and I wouldn't be bringing anything new to the table. like just look at the psalms! and she told me well then write meditations on the psalms in the form of poetry. and that kinda made something click in my brain so this is part one of hopefully many more :] (the title psalm of psalms was also suggested by her as a joke but then i was like wait no actually i like that)