Religious Drink Poems

Salt from the sands of Egypt 
Sprinkled into wine 
To banish dark memories 
Red wine mixed with myrrh 
Infused with pink salt 
Through wisdom
Praise!...

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In Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Kefar Chabad
     everywhere, little huts, though no sod
  Miniature tabernacles, laden with flowers
   ...

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Tree of wisdom’s amber dates 
Tree of life’s white grapes 
Bread that never perishes 
Wisdom’s nice fig leaves 
Blessed honey fountains 
Blessed grape juice 
Dine!...

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There are numerous kosher wines, and they are usually sweet.
Without them, a Passover seder meal cannot be complete.
Among the flavors of wines are blackberry.
Another popular...

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New year's day 2021

Disinclination regarding tradition
to make resolutions stance
adopted courtesy yours truly.

Though such proclamation
may smack of high treason
no matter convenience to season
and ideal time to...

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The Rum Runners

Dry was the USA a hundred years ago.
Prohibition just begun, and spirits running low.
Then, to the rescue, fishermen, fresh from the Georges Bank,
Weighed...

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Bread can nourish earthly dreams
Regale failing flesh
Eventually to join the crux that, with elán,
Allows the grape to ripen to dull
Death - a necessary

Acidic action to...

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A state of every mind full of stuffs or empty 
 What it needs a drug?
A pain, a pleasure, spiritual, religious…
In every gathering  ...

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There once was a company that brewed coffee
With lovely flavors like raspberry and toffee
     One year they made clear
  ...

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Written 2010


Flashing lights and sounds roll by
Hear the sound of muffled sighs
Sullen words cannot express
Just confess, and lift it off your chest
Told the priest would...

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