107 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “Christmas Present”

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Christmas Present

God and his Goddess gave us their Son.
Their Son gave us their Son.
Of all the gifts conceived and given,
This is the tenderest one.

 

Jonathon Penny is a poet, a scholar, a husband, a father, a cruncher of data, and, in relative poverty of spirit and blindness of mind, as much a disciple as he can manage. He has been published in Tyler Chadwick’s Fire in the Pasture, Dialogue, Victorian Violet Press, Mormon Midrashim, Sunstone, Everyday Mormon Writer, Gangway Magazine, Lowly Seraphim, and at Wilderness Interface Zone. He has several chapbooks in development, and will soon be publishing literary prose and poetry for children and youths of Percival P. Pennywhistle, PhD, and other fortunate souls under Pease Porridge Press.

To read more of Penny’s poetry, see, here, here, here, here, and here.

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