December 31, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is pregnancy and childbirth, in honor of the
birth of a new year.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .
A name and Christmas poem comparing the birth of a child to
the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem:
Evidence of paradise
Veils its rainbowed wings,
Enters life like one of us,
Like spirit wrapped in things.
Yet angels sing in Bethlehem
No more than in Mobile,
And kings careen through Rocky Mount
No less than through Jezreel.
Dream, then, of the bitter wind,
Nights for which one yearns
In sorrow and unsullied joy,
Child on whom life turns,
Older than the universe,
Love haunting, hurting, healing, worse,
An anguished joy one can't reverse
So long as blood still burns.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/evide2.html.
For more poems about pregnancy and childbirth, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/birthpregnancypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth
12/31: Evidence of Paradise
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