John Heath-Stubbs’s “On the Nativity” is one of my favorite Christmas poems.
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A Star Has Fallen, to Blossom from a Tomb
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Ms. Claus, Environmental Activist
Scott Bates’s Mrs. Santa Claus poems push environmental and peace themes. The next few posts consist of some of these poems.
A Mother’s Smile Prevails over Doubt
e.e. cummings’s Christmas poem “from spiraling ecstatically this” disrupts normal patterns to reveal the elusive nature of the divine.
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Remember the Real Meaning of Christmas
Jim McPherson’s “Christmas Humbug” reminds us what the Advent season should really be about.
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What Would Jesus Think of Christmas?
A poem arguing that Christmas has strayed from Christ’s mature message.
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Ring Out Ye Chrystal Spheres
Milton’s “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” celebrates Christmas with the ornate trumpet-and-organ imagery of the 17th century.
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Feeding Birds in the Bleak Midwinter
Tuesday – Christmas Eve Over the past few cold and rainy days, chickadees, goldfinches, titmice, and nuthatches have been swarming out feeders, bringing to mind one of my father’s Christmas poems. I first posted it nine years ago. I excerpt a portion of previous post, only adding that (this in response to the allusion to […]
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The Tradition of the Yule-Log
Christmas symbolism, including the yule-log, comes from many different faith traditions. This helps explain its power.
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