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...