I discovered this poem at Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac for April 17, 2011.
God Says Yes To Me
by Kaylin Haught
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
she said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don’t paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I’m telling you is
Yes Yes Yes
“God Says Yes To Me” by Kaylin Haught, from The Palm of Your Hand. © Tilbury House Publishers, 1995. Reprinted with permission
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Although Ms Magazine published the poem in the Fall 2004 issue, I can’t find Kaylin Haught’s photo or bio, so sweetcakes this will be a post sans illustration. If anyone reading this can tell us something about the author, do leave a comment
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This could have been written for one of my dearest friends. Many thanks for unearthing it for us!
I’m so glad to be able to share it with you souldipper. I hope your friend likes it.
I’m so glad to know that God uses those endearments – only she knows where she picked them up!
Isn’t it great to know that god hears us, and uses such sweet endearments to speak to us.
thanks for sharing sweetcakes
Thanks for writing Corilee.
Love this so much I can’t stand it!!!
And I’m having so much fun imagining Garrison Keillor reading it — in what is surely my favorite thing on radio: the daily Poetry Corner of his.
I want to listen to it every single day, but I always miss it (doing too much) which makes the times I stumble upon it just a big, fat gift of delight in the middle of a busy day. Thanks Rosie!!!
I’m glad to know that you also enjoy listening to Garrison Keillor’s readings. I’d like to use this opportunity to personally thank him for his daily Writer’s Almanac on National Public Radio. I love both the poems, and the stories he tells us about the writers/poets each day, for example:
“It was on this day [April 15] in 1802 that William Wordsworth was walking home with his sister, Dorothy, and saw a patch of daffodils that became the inspiration for one of his most famous poems…”
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/syndicate.php?name=writers_almanac/2011/04/twa_20110415_64
Lovely poem! Has a flow to it.
It looks so easy to write like this, but it ain’t easy.
Love this poem. Does anyone know anything about the poet. I’d love to read more of her poems.
Sorry Susan, I still don’t know anything about the poet.