2 Christmas Poems

Christmas 2001 #1
"Jerusalem"

So you should shift your eyes a bit,
Just a bit to the right.
With a nod towards Christmas time
Which is just around the corner.
I can smell it like I smell
The Colorado evergreen.
In one winter breeze-wafted breath,
It comes and-sweet surrender!
It disarms all we fear
Like a pilgrimage kiss upon a sandstone wall
Riddled with bullet-hole scars and salvation.
They are many times the same.
Many times. The same.

So you should turn your beautiful face,
Just a bit to the right.
With a nod towards Christmas time
Which is just around the corner.
I can smell it like I smell
The cedars of Lebanon.
In one winter breeze-wafted breath,
It comes and-sweet surrender!
It disarms all we fear,
Like rose petals fallen to the ground.


Christmas 2001 #2
"Unity"

Like everyone here connected,
Shining and holding hands.
We string from the mailbox to the roof
To the tree
A metaphor of you and you and me.
And we string from the garden fence
To the gutters
A picture of this round world.
We sweetly lay from the skirt to the star
A golden symbol of all that we are.
And we share the wine from body to cup
Like a crimson glacier all splintered up
With the geologic time and motion
that is not unlike the
Shining and holding hands,
The kind of electricity that a smile
And a family can throw out in beams

To a not-so-shining world.