Breath as Prayer

Poems, hymns lyrics help me reflect upon a focus idea ... I might start the process by prompting an AI to do something like:

• Generate eight 1950s-era cool beat-poet spoken-word lyrics for sparse modal jazz instrumentals for different thoughts that arise out of the contemplation of the following question, "How can the simple, rhythmic act of breathing become a wordless prayer, acknowledging the Spirit who gives life with every inhalation and releasing anxieties with every exhalation?"
• I would prefer that each lyric have a Title based on its content and a Sub-Title that is a verse from scripture that inspires that content.

1. "Pneuma Cool"

Subtitle: Genesis 2:7 - "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life"

dig it, cats— this original riff, the first cosmic inhale when the clay got hip to being alive, man, that divine breath still cycling through these lungs, these ribs expanding like the universe, contracting like a prayer returning home

2. "Anxiety Split"

Subtitle: Philippians 4:6-7 - "do not be anxious about anything"

exhale the worry, daddy-o let it flow out slow like smoke from a midnight cigarette in some dim-lit joint where the bass walks and troubles dissolve— breathe out the tight chest the clenched jaw release, release, release into that groovy peace that passeth understanding

3. "Every Breath Psalm"

Subtitle: Psalm 150:6 - "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord"

hey, you breathing? then you're praising, jack every inhale's a hallelujah that don't need no dictionary to translate— the lungs know the score they're playing this ancient tune in-out, in-out like brushes on a snare keeping time with eternity

4. "Wind Knows Where"

Subtitle: John 3:8 - "The wind blows where it wishes"

spirit wind blows through these borrowed bones can't pin it down, man can't make it stay but it visits oh, it visits filling empty spaces between the ribs between the thoughts between the now and the next now

5. "Selah Pause"

Subtitle: Psalm 46:10 - "Be still and know that I am God"

sometimes the holiest thing is the pause between breaths— that suspended moment when you're neither taking nor giving just being, baby just hanging in the void like a rest in the music where God lives in the silence between the notes

6. "Ruach Blues"

Subtitle: Ezekiel 37:9 - "breath, come from the four winds"

from north south east west the breath gathers its cool sliding into these dry bones making them dance again— each inhale a resurrection small as a mustard seed but dig how it grows into this moment this NOW this undeniable alive

7. "Temple Tempo"

Subtitle: 1 Corinthians 6:19 - "your body is a temple"

this body's a sacred space, cat and breath is the incense rising, falling filling the sanctuary with its wordless worship— no stained glass needed when lungs become windows letting the light in letting the darkness out keeping the eternal tempo

8. "Return Journey"

Subtitle: Ecclesiastes 12:7 - "the breath returns to God who gave it"

someday this breath will take its last trip back to the source, jack but until then— each exhale's a practice run a little death a little letting go teaching us the rhythm: receive, release receive, release the oldest song the coolest prayer