Each year for the last forty years or so, I've written a poem
to celebrate the birth of Christ.

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2022 Voluntary

2021 On Some Silent Night

2020 Days

2019 Then—Now

2018 Why Christmas Is So Special

2017 Holiday Time

2016 No Glamor

2015 Oil Change

2014 So Much We Need to Miss

2013 A Christmas Prayer

2012 The Weary World

2011 Culture vs. Christ

2010 To Whom We Pay Our Thoughts

2009 Christmas Gifts

2008 Moving

2007 Today Any Different?

2006 Who’s Counting? Who Counts?

2005 A Different Tack

2004 He Didn't Ask . . .

2003 Motel Me

2002 More Like

2001 The Sounds of Christmas

2000 Familiar, Too Familiar

1999 Descent

1998 Six Words

1997 Who Gets the Kid?

1996 Don't Wait

1995 Dawn

1994 How It Really Was

1993 His Benefactions

1992 My Shortest Ever Christmas Poem

1991 The Time

1990 We Like Good News

1989 (In December of this year I moved to Reno.  Euterpe, the muse of poetry, could not find me because of change of address.)

1988 December 25, 1

1987 Now and Then

1986 Cold Chatter

1985 A Baby’s Song

1984 Tonight

1983 Choice

1982 At Christmas

1981 Words from Hell

1980 Thus Set Free

1979 Amid, Across, Beneath

1978 The Christmas Gift

1976 This Christmas