This Scott Bates poem celebrates curling up with a good book.
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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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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Nativity
This playful Scott Bates environmental poem looks at the nativity story and observes that we are in desperate need of a repetition.
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Charitable Chimps Pick Fleas
In his parable “Seven Charitable Chimpanzees,” Scott Bates probes the reasons for charitable acts.
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Ask Vets to Tell You Their Stories
For Veterans Day, ask a vet for his or her story. Scott Bates and Tim O’Brien convey the importance of such storytelling.
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Our Annual Autumnal Striptease
A Scott Bates poem about autumn’s annual striptease.
Leaves Condemned to Be Free
Scott Bates offers this humorous existentialist meditation on falling leaves.
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A Serene Way to Deal with Chaos
Scott Bates’s humorous fable “The Contented Weed” offers a serene way to handle everything that life throws at us.
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Christmas Eve Updated
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 […]
