"Music" by Anne Porter from Living Things: Collected Poems. © Steerforth Press, 2006. When I was a child I once sat sobbing on the floor Beside my mother’s piano As she played and sang For there was in her singing A shy yet solemn glory My smallness could not hold And when I... Continue Reading →
Before Jesus by Alla Renée Bozarth
This Christmas is so very new and different. We have our own gift of the boy child. Our first grandson. So this poem is particularly poignant as I ruminate over my daughter's home birth. A Poem for the Season: Before Jesus by Alla Renée Bozarth Before Jesus was his mother. Before supper in the upper room, breakfast... Continue Reading →