Christmas I shared “Ballad of the Games of Yesteryear” this past spring when my father temporarily lapsed into dementia. But he wrote it as a Christmas poem and so I’m posting it again as I mourn the first Christmas spent without him. Now that he is dead, the poem contains special meaning, echoing as it […]
Joseph Brodsky wrote a series of Christmas poems, including this one
Two Scott Bates Christmas poems show Santa on the move, thanks to the melting of the polar ice caps.
This Scott Bates poem revisits the Land of Oz and finds that modern America has broken out.
Where are the toys of yesteryear? Such is the lament of this poem by Scott Bates.
John Donne’s poem on the Nativity shows us a way out of our imprisoned existence.
In Scott Bates’s updated nativity scene, there is no room for Mary and Josephn in the Holiday Inn.
Applying “Hichhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” to the nativity scene opens up interesting perspectives on the animals that are present.
Anne Porter shows us how “the fresh truth of children” is central to the Christmas experience.
