Scent Of Christmas
Take your dry palates and make merrily moist
with orange and spice and syrup of the pine tree tips;
take cinnamon and allspice, nutmeg and ginger,
to make the Christmas wine -
that ever wet lips,
fine!
The Magi brought the golden orange, nailed with clove,
and wrote their words with sprigs of holly's vermilion:
a dogma of aroma, zodiac incensed,
silent, scented doctrine
a perfect love like
thine!
--
notes
Instead of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, we imagine a Magi offering of spices and fruit, thus creating a faith not built on writ and dogma, but on scent and remembrance of sweet smells.
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