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The Christmas Guest/By Helen Stiner Rice/ የ ገና እንግዳ/Translation in Amharic Alem Hailu G/Kristos
It happened one day at the year’s white end,
Two neighbors called on an old-time friend
And they found his shop so meager and mean,
Made gay with a thousand boughs of green,
And Conrad was sitting with face a-shine
When he suddenly stopped as he stitched a twine
And said, “Old friends, at dawn today,
When the cock was crowing the night away,
The Lord appeared in a dream to me
And said, ‘I...
Friday 23rd December 2016 2:49 pm
Darkness lands with an ear-splitting bang
At the fall of midnight’s darkness on the eve of Christmas Day,
the dark of eleven fifty-nine was all but passed away,
the darkness that you only get just after twelve-oh-one
was hanging in the wardrobe still; it’s time was yet to come.
One second after the above, a clopping over the rooves,
a thunder clap of ungulates, ruminants with hooves,
a second after midnigh...
Tuesday 13th July 2010 12:43 am
The West Window: A Saga of York and Constantine
The West Window:
A Saga Of York and Constantine
Background if interested: This is a poem about Constantine who was with his father, Constantius, Caesar of the Western Roman Empire, in York when he died in 306. Constantine was then proclaimed Augustus of the West by his troops and later, after defeating Maxentius (Roman Emperor at the time) in battle becomes the first Christian Roman Emperor, la...
Tuesday 1st December 2009 9:50 pm
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