Best Censer Poems

A Volume of McClatchy 
 (on reading "The Ten Commandments" by J.D. McClatchy)
	-  Cheryl L. Higgins @2001 

I picked up your book. No, I ordered your book 
special hard-back from the local shop
a neighborhood place where literary types and 
Yale professors stop on their...

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Byzantine chapel
You had to swim a few meters until the find, you had to cut right and into the 
rock is stuck the cave. I always felt like a small Byzantine dome that part. An 
ancient Christian church remaining to wait until the end of...

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So, now, you all are positive 
Ted Osprey is a fugitive,
That his last name is not Osprey:
A smart corruption of Godfrey
While his 'Ted' First should have been, Fred;
Some would rather he's called 'Red'...

And you're also quite positive
He was no clean operative,
Rather working for evil men
Soon...

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Broken strings fill blank stares
From the spectators in the crowded stands.
On sea or sand, carnal essence fills censer bowls 
Spraying the prayers of the undiluted 
Up and out of cement cracks and cluttered attics.
Born to disease, my shadow.
Born with it in a basket of nonperishable...

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Every moment is a potion mixing
      in the adjoinisent wave.
         Where possibility falls like raindrops, 
       leaving you with the wonder of knowing; 
  ...

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The censer clanks
the smoke rises.
An attempt is made
to hypnotize.
It wafts across
the naive
The priest like
a magician has
a trick he uses
to deceive.
The incense odor,
causes a spiritual
trip.
Chanting in Latin,
locks his grip.
Affecting only  
those who are on 
 a guilt trip.
A stronger odor 
fouls the air.
Stench from children...

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NEW YORK NEW YORK AGAIN
When I go to the Service as soon as I get up
I listen to Frank Sinatra's song
“New York New York”
The city that never sleeps, as me
And I  with pleasure, like Liza Minnelli
Making a profane cabaret
Where  could win an Oscar.
I...

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fade out from the camera lens
the lotus bloomed from the broken glass soil
all things came into perspective
as every toil was put into focus

every shard set a different scene
a series kaleidoscopic
following film made of a red thread
sewn in a fashion erratic and episodic

singing songs of worship...

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February 6 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 16-18

Key Verse – Leviticus 16:12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring...

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                 In the vast expanse of 
forgotten time, the now balances on the strings 
of eternity, cryochron-ology 
of the doors held ajar by the pasts frozen wings, 
now in...

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Soon, it got up to Dr. Spencer
Burning incense on coppery censer 
In pursuit of a fitting answer 
To the craziest hard hitting cancer:
A line he’d toed for an ulcer 
And it result gave him for Gastric Seltzer… 

Krishna clouds their way making for a breast,...

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