Incense Poems

Foliage glows midst color-festival
Nature’s marvelous artistry displayed
Green leaves turning orange marks revival
Masterpiece of God wondrously replayed.

Brilliant canopies of golden fortress 
Exude great creation’s iridescence
Cheerfully relieving mountain-trek stress
Along rejuvenating crisp’s incense. 

Offering respite, sometimes nostalgic
With festive environmental dazzle 
Exposing season-enigma’s logic
Welcoming...Read More

sincere reform with sensibility
given neutral
done with understanding:
curiousity    whatrever
wherever
made with grace
&prudence
a metaphor of clarity
             to delight

our time remains as history
in silence
unity&felicity assemles
an approaching elegy
servitude&approval
precede
  ...Read More

Beyond dense clouds blanketing vast firmament
glowing solar rays expose their celestial commitment
valiantly warming the Earth with bright engagement…
…struggling to prevail in the Tropics over weather that’s inclement.

October Sun’s blissful iridescence
vanquishes typhoon-attacks against prediction license
while grace of God* abounds along blessings’...Read More

God’s love* prevails with victory
highlighting His Gospel story
redeeming us from hell’s fury
vanquishing sin-caused misery
through Christ’s power at Calvary…
in His mercy’s territory
He conquers guilt-driven worry
while healing our fears’ injury
giving rest to hearts, so weary
assuring us pardon’s glory. 

In God’s love reigns...Read More

peace within peace within peace
dripping with grease
war within war within war
an apple core
love within love within love 
not from above
stir within stir within stir
incense and myrrh
mix within mix within mix
knock them for six
kill within kill within kill
powder and pill
blood within...Read More

A BROKEN WING 
by susan Q miller © 2008


A broken wing, a broken shell, 

        candlelight, the incense sweet

              Upon...Read More

   I'm standing here quietly at the entrance of my soul.

   I can hear, therein, the impassioned sounds that more than twinkle.

   The alluring aroma of wafting incense, both do mingle.

   Yes....my...Read More

Beholding genuine freedom in its purest sense

Midst blissful sweet peace, perfectly exemplified

My soul, kindled with praise-filled gratitude’s incense 

Exalts God Whose name deserves to be magnified…

Here am I enthralled by the scenic glorious victory 

As a freed bird atop cross...Read More

Deep in the woods, nearly three miles back,
far from New York with its tall glass and steel,
on a low ridge that has no proper name,
I stumble on something that feels surreal.

An old-growth forest grove, somehow survived
the thirst of furnaces and...Read More

Galleries of life, ignorant and tough,
Sometimes as sandarac’s incense, usually morose.
I erase bluntness that grew a cravat around my heart,
Abominable inheritance riveted into the soul of farce,
But there is nothing more valued in life than experience,
And there is a bag-full...Read More

Once freed of boring prodigious 
questions.
Once freed of all poetic forms.
Once freed of trying to impress
 you with imagery.
Once freed of following all norms.

Then and only then, may I enter the 
mystical temple of poetry.
Then and only then, the incense of me 
rises...Read More

The golden bell clangs and a name, is read aloud.
Like human incense, in the shape of a lovely
heart-cloud.

Many want to forget America's day of infamy.
But to family and friends, each name bears much 
love and eternal dignity.



September 11, 2019


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Machines With Madmen Groaning


Machines with madmen groaning above me at 10 thousand feet,
Grumbling and growling like maniac sky monsters slurping on bloody prey,
Those steel dragons of yore spewing fire and corpses into the excesses,
Like Rodan and Godzilla maiming each other...Read More

The fairest creature I, in the garden of the blossoms,
My scarlet visage overweighs the evil of thorny vesture,
In my dwelling, an unheard hymn the sparrows sing of,
Melodies of praise stacked up like hay in the hayfield,
A charming and so seductive...Read More

In searching for a heart of gold, 
with standards higher than I deserve.
I lost my way.
Lost sight of the truth, what would truly make me happy.
I imagined- the mold, the form she should take and shape it's core. 
The possibility,...Read More

In a place of no world clatter I wish to dwell,
like a gate of withdrawal I secure my door;
I close my windows tight and wish the world farewell,
wrapped and veiled in a serenity I adore.

Like a gate of withdrawal- ...Read More

a place of blessing
                with decrees
distinctive requirements
a requisite to be
               ...Read More

prayer is an incense
of a quiet spirit

     this strength of fellowship
in a tent of meeting
personal
private
       a place 
       of communion
with Him

truth in every symbol
in...Read More

There is a flame
in her painted red mouth.
I'm doused in the gasoline
of self doubt.
Together we make a forest fire
out of a glint on an incense tip.
A slighting remark
turns into a chain argument
spreading fast across town.
The dragon lady and I
meshed in...Read More

By Your revival’s best action
Along Your miracle-wonders beyond imagination
Molding me through Your trying, proving and polishing function…
Oh God, enable me to continue in Your ways of sanctification
While I lean on Your understanding in my everyday choice and decision!
 
With Your...Read More

PRAYER #2

In a dream
I tumbled away
Like dried cremated leaves –
Leaving my body
As the brisk
Morning air
Finally brought me
Tumbling down –
Soothed
By a cool misting rain.

The sky dimmed
And I slid
Within the 
Incubation of night.

My face
Was caught
In a circle
Of violet-blue lights

As I dressed,
Rather properly,
In...Read More

As we search the river’s source,
It jumps the banks of our twisted past,
Set sail for the uncharted,
The pale flickering of the pole star,
The ever present circle,
Surrounding, unfolding, revealing,
Where mere words find their ending,
My being extols with creation,
As the unseen manifests,
My...Read More

Tenderly, kindle your scented
candles~
Or burn some aromatic, heady
incense, too!
If only a few people acknowledge
your worth,
Why is it so important to you?

You don't need the roar of the
crowd!
Because, you see,God knows
your talents,
And He applauds you most
affirmatively.
He is your number one follower.

Just...Read More

Like incense fills the valves
of the chambers of my soul.
Love for life, like a gentle river,
totally flooded me.
Once you came and remained 
my sole bright, coral love atoll.

Everlastingly gleaming in God's
sunlight and moonlight.
Ever lifting me to new insights.
Stunning, velvet blue butterfly,
Resting on my...Read More

You were my first love my greatest treasure
Sadly my world was shaken beyond measure
Silently like a thief in the night death came
Took your body  your soul it could not claim
I saw you suffering and fighting the pain
Disease killed its...Read More