Christmas party at the South Danbury Church (Donald Hall Poem)
December twenty-first we gather at the white Church festooned red and green, the tree flashing green-red lights beside the altar. ...
December twenty-first we gather at the white Church festooned red and green, the tree flashing green-red lights beside the altar. ...
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early, Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving; Stretch'd out like a pall ...
Lovingly I'll sing of love; Ever comes she from above. THE FRIENDLY MEETING. IN spreading mantle to my chin conceald, ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
When I look over the valley and mountains so high, I take a deep breath and let out a sweet ...
Lord Sometimes these trials are hard to take, And I want them to end so my heart won't ache. I ...
Herod did not go none of Jerusalem joining with the Magi to go to Bethlehem Though the words of scripture ...
Herod did not go none of Jerusalem joining the Magi going to Bethlehem Though the words of the prophets the ...
A newborn baby, the king of the Jews fulfilling the prophecy the promise of God The Messiah in Bethlehem from ...
Newborn, rising from the earth the warming, changing, the rich wet soil the crocus rising from its slumber bursting forth ...
Here, right where I live where I work, where I toil, where we worship, where my wife, my girls are ...
rising up, out of the water reborn, dead to our old self, newborn creation, a child of God with Christ ...
The Epiphany The coming of the Magi Christ a newborn king January 3, 2009 Matthew 2:1-12 (Raymond A. Foss)
We are traveling, this Epiphany season following the star, his bright star traveling, journeying, like the Magi the astrologers, the ...
Unlike the shepherds, on a nearby hillside, watching their sheep. Not called by a choir of angels, a chorus of ...
The water formed antlers of ice fingers maybe, layered, tallowed, hand-dipped candles, bits of frozen magic, in the mist the ...
Over the days, the journey of Advent the nativity evolving, the scene coming into focus beginning with the couple, expectant ...
Before the first snowfall long after frost covering layering the lawn, the gardens Yellow remaining newborn black-eyed Susan growing in ...
When we fear, when we question, when we are nervous our lives out of control, unregulated, at the whim of ...
It looked to be a leaf from last fall bright red maroon burgundy maple yes, it was a mix of ...
Crashing waves on a rocky coast, rain falling on parched ground The cry of a newborn baby, the call of ...
Tall mountains reaching to the sky Deep canyons, cut into the earth, gorges, valleys Huge blue whales, the enormity of ...
A cold gray afternoon cocooned indoors, watching the scene change outside, in the colors, the feel, the mood morphing day, ...
Life is simple. In my canoe. Strokes in the water propel me forward. I chart my course around the cove. ...
A hush fell over the congregation lights dimmed, cloaking us all A glow grew, pew by pew Candles clutched be ...
The barber has accidentally taken off an ear. It lies like something newborn on the floor in a nest of ...
Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
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