Poems for Advent 6
Joseph The child's father - he stands by her elbow, old enough to be her own. Aware of the talk and whose paternity. But knows what he...
Poems for Advent 5
Journey of the Magi after a fragment of an ancient Persian legend The best laid plans of camel and of king. Seamless from the start had...
Poems for Advent 4
Bethlehem Pin prick on a map of stars to lines that cross and hardly show in the dialogue of connecting contours and relief. A man in a...
Poems for Advent 3
for my grandmother - Olive Ruth Sherwin Grandmother Handed down in safe preserve with all that she could make she held the secret...
Poems for Advent 2
Christmas Star Spinning silver in the dark it caught the spark of cold and needle green the scarlet sheen of warm red coat the silent...
Poems for Advent 1
Christmas Angel A first mission and a tricky assignment: with so much at stake and a lot looking on. Make a success of something this big...
Personal Choice 78
Timothy Winters Timothy Winters comes to school With eyes as wide as a football-pool, Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters: A blitz...
Personal Choice 77
On the Birth of a Son for Andrew The day the boy was born, the wall fell down That flanks our garden. There’s an espaliered pear, And...
Personal Choice 76
Tarantella Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn? And the tedding and the spreading Of the straw for a bedding, And the...
