I am subscribed to “Keep It Alive,” and Sadje (the owner of that channel) keeps us abreast of a number of writing challenges. I don’t always have time to take part in them, but I manage to do so once in a while. This week, she shared a challenge from “Selma,” who told us how she was prompted to take the last line from the poem of a friend and begin a new poem of her own with that line. She then challenged us to do the same. I have done something similar in the past for another poetry challenge, but it has been many years, so I thought it would be fun.

Selma’s last line was “In perfect accord.” So I set out to write a poem beginning with that line. I did not intend for my last line to repeat the first, but it just worked out that way so perfectly that I couldn’t help myself.

Anyway, I hope you will all hop over to visit Sadje and Selma both and maybe write your own poem beginning with the last line of mine — or theirs.

Here’s my poem:

I REST WITH GOD

In perfect accord with God, I rest;
Forgiven for sin and healed and blessed.
I have no need to struggle or strain,
Or fight for what I want to gain.
He meets my needs on every hand,
And, washed clean by His blood, I stand
Acquitted, accepted, anointed, adored;
I rest with Him, in perfect accord.

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