[stylist] Poem - "Christmas Card" - Second Draft

[Lynda Lambert]

Bill, I love this Christmas Card. And, it reminds me so much of the theology 
of Emily Dickinson.
Bill, I would love to see you put together a chapbook!
Choose a theme and start digging through your poems and putting one 
together.  I'll be first in line to buy it!
Your work is intellectual, intelligent, thoughtful, and the wisdom you weave 
through the passages is something that can never be taught - it has to come 
from within the person, for the teacher within you.
Lynda
Original Message----- 
From: William L Houts via stylist
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 2:43 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Christmas Card" - Second Draft

Hey Wits and Poets:

Something for the season, I suppose.   Comments welcome, as always.


--Bill


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Christmas Card

Neither angels nor elves, their toys

and trumpets announcing Christmas Land fun,

but a still and sober nature:

a buck, a rabbit, a golden-eyed owl

arrested in stances,

this winter commune, as actual

as unmythed frozen earth:

These creatures gazed, with liquid eyes

upon a rare sky'sprophet star.

sofree, this card, of kitsch it slipped

my cynical guard and struck me

crucial hard:I broke open to faith,

and found some years the solace of bread

and wine. I'm lying, mind,a tiny pip;

other starbolts, too, conspired for me to take

the Saint James plunge. I'm unchurched now,

but how I grant that Christmas card

a nod for herding me to Catholic pews:

abandoned now, but cherished, kept.

I do retain a miracle soul: respect

the wisdom of chance and change: I dream,

I play, I bathe, waters of love and rain

my only church,more bloodfelt than the Dove.













-- 


"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"

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