Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Santa's Wish

Santa Claus would like
to teach the world to sing in
perfect harmony.
I myself wonder if all
the world can carry a tune.

The Tenors sing "Santa's Wish"

 

Saturday, December 25, 2021

I saw a stable, low and very bare

I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care.
To men He was a stranger.
The safety of the world was lying there,
And the world's danger.

     --Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Monday, December 13, 2021

Tanka on Arrogance

The final two lines in this poem of mine are quoted from Psalm 101:5
in The 1599 Geneva Bible, a 2006 publication of Tolle Lege Press.

My brother got on
his high horse and rode roughshod
over me -- again!
"Him that hath a proud look and
high heart, I cannot suffer."


A is for Arrogance.

Thursday, December 2, 2021

As It Turns Out

Robert Wood Lynn is a poet from Virginia, the state in which I live. To read his poem "As It Turns Out" in the Winter 2021 issue (NR 36) of Nashville Review, click here.