27th & 28th December, 2004
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Rod in “The Best is Yet to Come” 11/6/04
Photo by Shira Greenburg ©2004 by Broadway.com. Used by Permission
A Thought for Today
Don’t take life too seriously, you can
bet it isn’t paying close attention to you.
FROM the¨BOOKS
THREE POEMS from THE CAROLS of CHRISTMAS
Bethlehem BC
You could hear
the flapping of their wings
for some distance -
not a sudden rush
or panic made by masses
but a slow coming together
quietly in the air.
Then, following that yellow highway
that the star provided
into Bethlehem they came.
Slow. Slow. Quietly.
like snowfall making up it's mind
before a winter downpour
And winter it was.
On the ground
we huddled - first in awe,
then in fright
thinking it miracle enough
that our important lives
should be interrupted
by creatures on a winter's eve
who flew above us and beyond us,
to settle in the barnyard
at the other end of town.
(We make up miracles to suit ourselves
and so we knew these winged persons
had been sent for our amazement,
and not to please the cattle
in an unremembered farmer's barn.)
Were you there?
But file into the barn they did
while some kept vanguard in the air
as though imagining they guarded
some important person
living there.
Some of us went home,
having seen them with no ill effect.
In the morning there'd be stores to open,
pigs to feed
and stories to enlarge upon
concerning what had happened
on the night before.
Were you there?
Christmas Yet to Come
Tomorrow comes
and Christmas next year too
and hour upon hour
as afternoons chase evenings
the days line into decades.
Hark the holidays
and keep them holy,
save them all as markers.
One Christmas-
not yet here perhaps,
but on the way
we’ll be here again.
The world and we.
I’ll come back to building bridges.
You’ll begin rebuilding me.
- from “The Carols of Christmas,” 1971
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