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Robbie Burns Night
We’re not having dinner tonight that “jaups in luggies” but neither are we having haggis. Nevertheless, we salute the rugged haggis fed who have and are gathering tonight in memory of Robbie Burnes For you lovers of fricassees, olio, or ragout, a part of every Robert Burns Diner is the…
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Epiphany Snow
A sonnet for Epiphany, “Eon’s later I watch this Epiphany’s snowing; Christmas is past, so too carol singing, Waiting on spring? It’ll be hard going To body forth through this winter’s keening.”
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A Voice Loudly Cries
This sonnet is based on Matthew 2:16-18. There have been many Herods who have stood in opposition to the King of kings, and these tyrants use many weapons. However, the vulnerable are the ones who always pay, and the most vulnerable are the children. This is the world where every…
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The Nativity
This is the final poem in a series for Grace Kernersville’s Jesse Tree project. The poems in the series are attempts at ekphrasis. A gifted artist in the congregation in which I pastor have provided abstract paintings from which the poems have derived their inspiration. This painting is entitled, The…
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God with Us
The antiphon for December 23 is the last and is “O Emmanuel.” The antiphon reads, ”O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations and their Savior: Come and save us, O Lord our God.” It continues to be, for me, the most amazing news that God…
Backward Mutters 