Bonus Selection: A Poem for Christmas

Christmas 2012

What is it about a child

that makes us smile?

And hope?

A baby gurgles,

eyes flitting wildly about,

arms and legs flailing the air,

and grown men take leave of their senses

while women folk gurgle back.

Newly minted people,

freshly formed and sent forth into this world,

remind all of us of who we once were;

and who we may, perhaps, still become.

-- By Delmer Chilton, December 20, 2012