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Birth pangs
Birth pangs
by Marjorie Dobson
Birth Pangs A poem imagining the mind of Mary as she struggles to give birth in the stable of the inn. When I said, ‘Yes,’ I did not know where it would lead. Why, in God’s name, must it be here and now Why, after all the prejudice I’d known, the scorn, derision, and the hostile …
Times and Seasons - Foreign Fields
Times and Seasons - Foreign Fields
by Marjorie Dobson
Foreign Fields In mud-bespattered ranks men marched through foreign fields, once fertile as the farms at home: their hopes, once high, soon shattered by mud, gas, guns, barbed-wire and no-man’s land. The fields were wet with rain and scarlet blood and vomit; peppered with shells,…
Times and Seasons - Agony