Tag Archives: "Nativity"

I Never Saw a Sweeter Child

By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2020

Dorothy Parker and Scott Bates have poems that see the nativity from the vantage point of commoners.

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Christmas Eve Updated

By Robin Bates | Published: December 24, 2018

Christmas Eve A Christmas Eve poem by my father, probably inspired by Jean Luc Godard’s controversial film Hail Mary. Item By Scott Bates They came in on Interstate 93 Past a dozen signs of NO VACANCY And finally stopped at the Holiday Inn Where she stayed in the car while he went in And was politely […]

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Joy of Life Revealed in Love’s Creation

By Robin Bates | Published: December 31, 2016

In Auden’s “Christmas Oratorio,” the shepherds stand in for the working class, who find love and personhood in the birth of Jesus.

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Jesus Lies Enclosed but Fills All Place

By Robin Bates | Published: December 30, 2012

John Donne’s poem on the Nativity shows us a way out of our imprisoned existence.

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