title: Church Love:: Fire Works
author: Shantae A. Charles
description: Shantae A. Charles, founder of GOD Ideas, LLC. , is an educator, psalmist, licensed evangelist, poet, artistic creator, danseuse and children's advocate. For the past ten years, Shantae has been touching lives daily and reaching the future and currently serves as a Teacher/Advisor for a gender specific program. She serves as Christian Education Coach for her church and serves under the dynamic leadership of Pastors Gerald and Judy Mandrell at Life Changers Church of God in Christ (www.lifechangerscogic.com). Shantae holds a B.S. in Art Education with an emphasis on graphic design and child psychology. She lives in Florida with her husband, Robert.
zlib_text: NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE 
  TRENT UNIVERSITY 
  LIBRARY 
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive 
  in 2019 with funding from 
  Kahle/Austin Foundation 
  https://archive.org/details/collectedpoemsOOOOemps 
  
  COLLECTED POEMS 
  
  By the same Author 
  ★ 
  SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY 
  SOME VERSIONS OF PASTORAL 
  THE STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX WORDS 
  milton's god 
  
  COLLECTED 
  POEMS 
  WILLIAM EMPSON 
  1962 
  CHATTO AND WINDUS 
  LONDON 
  
  PUBLISHED BY 
  CHATTO AND WINDUS LTD 
  LONDON 
  * 
  CLARKE, IRWIN AND CO LTD 
  TORONTO 
  First Published 1935 
  Second Impression 1956 
  Third Impression 1962 
  PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN 
  BY LOWE & BRYDONE (PRINTERS) LTD., LONDON 
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 
  
  THE FIRE SERMON 
  Everything, Bhikkhus, is on fire. What everything, Bhikkhus, 
  is on fire? The eye is on fire, the visible is on fire, the knowledge 
  ofi the visible is on fire, the contact with the visible is on fire, the 
  feeling which arises from the contact with the visible is on fire, be 
  it pleasure, be it pain, be it neither pleasure nor pain. By 