Poems for Advent 2017

Dec 3 Awaken — To Wake Up the Dead

Dec 4 Journey — Journey to the Center of the Heart

Dec 5 Gather — Gathering the Limbs of Osiris

Dec 6 Simplify — Plumb Simple

Dec 7 Heal — White Heal-all, White Spider

Dec 8 Mend — O Lord, Thou Pluckest Me Out

Dec 9 Focus — Pho  

Dec 10 Prepare — Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord

Dec 11 Messenger — Annunciation

Dec 12 Watch

Dec 13 Voice — The Voice of God

Dec 14 Wilderness

Dec 15 Trust — Trust, a Blessed Comfort

Dec 16 Among — Word Made Flesh

Dec 17 Light — Ooohhh, Pretty Little Baby

Dec 18 Dazzle — Dazzle-Eyes

Dec 19 Open — Open Wide (The Immaculate Conception)

Dec 20 Embrace — More than a Hug, or What Jesus Needed Most

Dec 21 Renew — Revolt

Dec 22 Greeting — Hello!

Dec 23 Child — Madonna and Child

Dec 24 Belief — Believe (Children Go Where I Send Thee)

Dec 25 Celebrate — Shout for Joy

Epilogue — The Birth of Mary (from the Infancy Gospel of James)