Christmas Thoughts (Poem) - John Robert Howell

The muezzin of the infinite and light-
emblazoned firmament
Marked the nightly vigil's silent and meditative
hours
Of those wakeful, watchful shepherds, scientific
avatars,
Who pondered not dusty constellations of
earth's deceptions,
But the higher lessons witnessed in God's
refulgence,
Thus to behold the glow of that edritch eastern
star,
Herald of Jesus' nativity, Light's advent in the
flesh.
That event was once and not to be repeated,
Yet for those whose receptive hearts wander
wearily
Among the darkly lighted trails and travails of
mortality
The promise of that holy dawn blesses all
eternally.