by Danielle | Jan 4, 2026 | Guest Poems
A Flash I described the painted saints,carved animal heads on pewsin a medieval church.I’m going through hell, you said, and questioned whether loss of hearingwas worse than losing sight. You knew a womanblind and deaf who’d learned to speak:with balloons...
by Danielle | Jan 4, 2026 | Guest Poems
Two Worlds Season of Christmas cheer we adore thee,We adore thee and greet theeAnd men sleep outside in the streets.We greet thee with carols and cardsAnd prepare lavish fare,And men sleep outside in the openWith feet that are bare,With feet that are crippledAnd hands...
by Danielle | Dec 28, 2025 | Guest Poems
On the Morning of Christmas Day it’s mildacross our ungrazed fieldwhose thorns and clay have yet to know a freeze.The clouds in the east proclaimhow every wise man’s dreamof frost fair, snow and angel, is old news.Nature, abandoned at the Pole,feels something cracking...
by Danielle | Dec 28, 2025 | Guest Poems
Nativity Scene Besançon Book of Hours (15th Century) The saddled donkey seems to be eatingJoseph’s cake-like halo or at least testingwith mouth and nostrilswhether it might be edible. In his carpenter’s hands,bald and bearded Joseph is holding the babywrapped in...
by Danielle | Dec 21, 2025 | Guest Poems
The New Estate Uninterrupted, our view towards the dawn,beyond silhouetted horses near the hedge.Soon, across the lightening sky, first birds flew –in this pleasant way each breaking day was set. But builders bought the land, they lifted hedgerows,trampling wild...
by Danielle | Dec 21, 2025 | Guest Poems
Falling Like Feathers Hushed, each Christmas we wait with breath-held hopethat the Barn Owl, pale queen of the night dark skywill spread her strong broad wings to dropwhispering with a flutter and rustle of promisewhite tales of long ago, once upon a time...
