It's the Holiday Season

As with my reluctance to write poems about my faith, I have a great reluctance to write poems about Christmas....It's not that I don't love Christmas, I just have a hard time feeling that I can say anything worthwhile or that someone else hasn't already said.

Having said all that....Here's a very recent one dealing with Christmas.

Meditations on a Holiday

Have the sounds

Of the season

Overwhelmed

A child’s simple cry?

Dazzling displays

Of electric light

Threaten to blind us

To His star

Can we hear

The angels

Over the roar

Of the commercials?

A tine baby

In a rough-hewn bed

Christmas

Is something both

More and less

Than we have

Made it to be.

written Dec. 4, 2013