Showing posts with label Christ Climbed Down. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christ Climbed Down. Show all posts

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Your Advent Ferlinghetti

Walt over at My Two Cents has posted Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Christ Climbed Down," written in 1958. I think it merits a read, so click on over.

Here's the beginning to whet your appetite:
Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no rootless Christmas trees
hung with candycanes and breakable stars

--the BB