Best Benefice Poems

The altar showed anomaly,
an orb of light, 
a foil for small realities 
that I could easily forget 
but for that twilight cast, 
to things I touch or dream--
that spirit song sequestered
where I cannot go.
 
Thoughts of relevance
...of insight
...of perceptions being reconciled
with the mundane
then smiling at...

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Voices from another galaxy 
drop hints about this blissful daydream dwelling I’m 
obsessed with.
They douse the strident yelping from an unrestrained stray pup in my neighbourhood,
when it breaks clear of its tan leather muzzle with a consummate fiendish elan.
This happens when I stroll with abandon...

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Gate and Column

Enea celebrates the wedding of Frederick and Leonor

He owned a benefice “out there”, beyond Ravenna,
but now, in middle age, he’s coming home.
The action’s moved to native-town Siena,

though interspersed with roistering in Rome.
The countryside was never lusher, blander
(at centre-right, the campanile and dome

of Enea’s...

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Built pondage on the river
To benefice farming and husbandry;
Fruitful sources of food for the villagers.
Right-minded under the Nature.

Any pondage has strengths and weaknesses.
The builder must prepare for its consequence 
Pondage can retain the water 
From rain or streams of the upper forest.
Pondage can delay the...

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Dear Lord:
Please do not let me fall short'
Fore the love of Jesus
Is all telling
And is always' the same
Today, I ask for comfort
Oh Lord, hear my plea
And allow me
Your unrequited
Benefice to refurbish me
For this I pray of thee
I pray for your assurance that
My attitude won't be
So...

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Long before the culture wars
  Life was calmer on these shores
Instead of magnifying 'racism'
  We telescoped 'outer-spacism'

Back then we knew the world wasn't perfect
   So many pock-marks of abject neglect
Troubling tendencies oft left unchecked
   Defects that we had to...

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I think its plain, there is no gain..on prevarication
About white powder on a plane.? Another plane
Of parliament, created to sow unity and cement
To foster benefice encourage accord, for there a
Nazi to applaud.?? I speak not alone of my deep
Affront.' But of those who were murdered...

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