Notes from the Slow Lane

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas full of hope and joy.  I feel this poem sums up some of the majesty and mystery of Christmas and forms a ...

December has been flying by, as it always does, so here is the fourth poem, another serious one, but shorter.  This poem brought me up short...

Naturally my book for this month is Christmassy, how could it not be?  I am not sure how I stumbled across Christmas with the Savages by Ma...

This Sunday I have chosen T S Eliot's Journey of the Magi , a vivid imaging of the long journey from the east.  To me there seems to be ...

The Greyhound Inn This last Saturday was my dad's birthday and one of those crisp, cold, bright, sunny days that make winter so muc...

I discovered this poem last Christmas, in an Advent book called Haphazard by Starlight, which has a poem for every day of Advent and loved i...

This Advent I thought I would mark the Sundays of Advent by posting some of my favourite Christmas poems, one on each Sunday, although the o...