Authors /
Carl Winderl
Carl Winderl’s most recent book of poetry is The Gospel According . . . to Mary (Finishing Line).
I know a thing,
or two about refugees;
and about
being one, too . . .
about the fear for
flight, from the
slaughter of
innocence, wholly...
February 1, 2023
why not the cavalry
on Calvary . . .
as the song so goes,
for My Son
could
have called...
March 24, 2022
oh, how redundant
those poor poor
shepherds on
My Son’s
frightfully frigid
natal night
brought to Him
a gift,
their single
solitary best
begotten present...
December 10, 2020
constantly risking
absurdity and
death and
insanity, and
personal immortality
My Son so
performed His
miraculous acts...
March 11, 2020
how is It in
each Nativity
scene I am seen
no matter the time
of night—
joseph, My Son, and I
are always bathed
in light, no in...
December 11, 2019
why would My Son
care
to be
a shepherd, The Shepherd
to sheep
those foul, obstinate
foolhardy & dumbest of
creations by
His Heavenly Father...
August 16, 2019
when My Son rolled
away the stone
sealed with
wax and guarded
by a pair
of rome’s finest,
rolled it away far
far far away
from His
tomb’s mouth...
April 5, 2019
oh, how the neg-
ative reciprocals
abound and re-
dound in
of by through
around under and
out of
My Son’s Life,...
April 2, 2019
kneeling at the Manger
staffs at their sides, hushed
mouths agape, reeking not
of frankincense and myrrh, but...
December 13, 2018
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as once was so
for danté
and virgil whence
they trespassed so
in the Inferno
’twas that was as
it was
for My Son, too
in his harrowing
of it . . ....
September 22, 2017
o, my Christ
My Son, athirst
pressed tight
so up
against His
narrow Tree I see
from here
at His Feet
His Despair, their
disgust, at
what I now know...
April 4, 2017
of all the Woulds
My Son couldhave ridden and shed blood upon
mahogany, ebony,maple, elm, oak,fir, poplar, banyan, teak,palm, bamboo, juniper, sequoia,...
January 15, 2014