Poem Sweet Poem
After years of talking to God through pen and paper, a visual artist publishes a book that shares her innermost prayers
When it comes to daily prayer and worship, spiritual writer and freelance photographer Katrina Warme (鈥�16) is in constant communication with God鈥攕eeking wisdom to make ethical choices, sharing God鈥檚 affection and compassion with the world around her, and admiring the natural beauty in all creation.
The author of the recently published book of poetry, hello, dear one...,Warme鈥檚 work is a creative collection of her prayers to God and the desired responses
she imagines receiving from him. Conscious of her audience鈥檚 potential religious diversity,
she unveils her private conversations with God through spiritually generic language
that resonates with the majority of her readers鈥攅ven those who are not affiliated
with any specific faith.
Warme also shares her poems on Instagram (under the handle @sweeterchord and compiled
through #sweeterpoetry) where the deeply emotional words are strategically paired
with original portraits to tell stories that invoke optimism and reinforce self-worth.
鈥淚 believe that hope is a choice as much as it is a feeling,鈥� she explains. 鈥淭he more
we choose to be thankful and hopeful, the richer our lives will be and the more we
will be able to notice what God is doing around us.鈥�
The following poems from hello, dear one... illustrate Warme鈥檚 message of remaining faithful during adversity, which she describes
as 鈥渁 sweeter chord in a dissonant world.鈥�
The Definition That Was Never Yours To Write
Note to self:
Every time you said, 鈥渋t couldn鈥檛 possibly get better than this,鈥� it did.
So then why do you keep believing that you don鈥檛 matter, when even the most beautiful
things in life are drawn to you?
You are not the sun, setting vibrantly and leaving darkness. You are the horizon it
longs to dive into, knowing that in you it finds a new beginning.
The Truest Birthday Gift
It鈥檚 not that I want to convince you that you are loved. It鈥檚 that I want to be your
reminder鈥� today and whenever you need it (even if you don鈥檛 think you do)鈥攖hat you
already were. Utterly. Completely. Incessantly and perfectly. By the One who called
you 鈥淏eloved鈥� before time began.
(You need this too, dear one.) Yes. I need other people.
And that鈥檚 okay, too.
The Christening
鈥淵ou are the same,鈥� said the voices, 鈥渨hen everything around you is different. New.
Whole. Rejoicing. But you? You are the same. You are stuck.鈥�
No.
I am new every morning, whole again each moment, and I will not believe their lies
again.
This is for You.