is the poem-prayer that is the most natural and comfortable form—which is why Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs are so central in the Christian tradition (Ephesians 5:19). What the Psalms achieve over and above the hymns and songs is to remain in touch with the wildness of the grace of God and the actual pain of the human soul. They do so in ways that are not tidied up to fit in with the disciplines of metre or rhyme or to sound nice when sung in worship. A good poem, it is said, is felt, is experienced,