Each year for the last forty years or so, I've written a poem
to celebrate the birth of Christ.
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2024 Long vs. Deep
2023 Always the Same
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
