Best Stucky Poems

Haikus Against AI

By Mark D. Stucky
Computer AI,
what once was only sci-fi,
is now arising.

You might kill us all,
AI, but write good essays
for my college class?

Wish intelligence
was less artificial and
more real in our world.

No machine needed
for creating recklessness.
Already have lots.

Not nearly enough
authentic intelligence
is found within us.

Let’s search...

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The 2023rd Psalm

By Mark Stucky
“Above the law” is our shepherd; he shall always want.

He maketh us to lie about the election; he leadeth us into deep divisions.

He stealeth our souls; he leadeth us in the paths of insurrection for his name’s sake.

Yea, though we talk...

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(Author's note: Traditions of walking a labyrinth as a form of meditation go back many centuries. Labyrinths in Christian contexts usually have a single, winding path instead of a maze’s many possible dead-end paths. Mazes are puzzles to be solved. Labyrinths are tools for meditation.)

Life...

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(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race for billionaires.)

Races

By Mark D. Stucky
Our country had a Space race
to beat Russians to the moon.
Decades ago, we left lunar footprints
and...

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Antisocial Media

By Mark D. Stucky
I remember the old days
when people only had friends
they’d actually met in person,
before “social media” seduced us,
and people became less social,
sitting alone and anonymous,
insulting strangers and neighbors,
tweeting threats and riotous rants,
multiplying misinformation,
damaging decency and democracy.

Antisocial media betrays us
and the original vision
of...

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How Much Vengeance Is Enough?

By Mark D. Stucky
How much bloody carnage and rubble
is required to atone for sins of a few?
How many eyes must be gouged
to extract desired justice?
If wronged, is exchanging one eye enough?
What about two eyes for one? Or ten for one?
Is twenty...

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Consider the (Dreaming) Birds

By Mark D. Stucky
Jesus told us to consider the birds of the air.
I have pondered parakeets (budgies) in a cage
routinely performing what seems impossible.
No, not flying. (They fly rather poorly.)
It’s the posture they keep as they sleep.
Usually before closing their eyes,
they puff...

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There once was a young man from Kentucky
Who thought himself very lucky
He loaned a sum
to a boyhood chum
and ended being the guy's stucky...

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Bathing with Bathsheba

By Mark D. Stucky
As you bathed bare below the high palace
were you intentionally seductive?
The citadel was in plain view,
and so apparently were you.

Or were you simply innocent,
and the king abused his power?
Was it a me-too moment
those three millennia ago?

Nonetheless, you became complicit
in David’s...

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Hate Vacuuming?

By Mark Stucky
Vacuum cleaners are pneumatic nobles,
built to cleanse our offices and homes,
sucking dust from floors and crevices
to discard in trash cans
(where dirt belongs).

What if we could also build a machine
to vacuum hate from our world
and to hurl hate into hell
(where hate belongs)?

What if...

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Resurrection iBodies

By Mark D. Stucky
I laundered my iPhone the other day,
left in a pants pocket bound for washer glory.
After all the agitation and spin ceased,
below the damp graveclothes,
I found its corpse, cold and dead,
circuitry and battery drowned.
Ashes to ashes, suds to suds.

How our lives seem...

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Ain’t nobody here, 
but us plucky chickens
Ghetto goose-stepping,
every fare-thee-well welfare day!

Ain’t nobody here,
but us unlucky chickens
Urban legend has it,
that we been KFC set free

Now ain’t we pretty henpeck  clucky ...
USA   Grade A   DOA 
prison farm     ...

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 Quantum Theology

By Mark D. Stucky

Spirit filled the formless void
before matter and energy were born,
before infinitesimal became infinite,
when, from a singularity, a speck of nothing,
the biggest bang birthed everything.

And still the Creator of the quantum realm,
on a vast yet subatomic scale,
casting loaded dice of probability,
nudges...

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Trucker Duckie

His P.I.C handle is:
TRUMP DOGG

Road incorrecto políticamente 
rolls his 18-wheeler Hogg

Transporting border illegals is the 
			  Primary cache crop haul
Outfoxing blue Smoky Bears
			is his favorite Duckie call

Just like the Big Don,
dodging the Law
is an artful peddle scam

Switch-the-crate bait con
got no pothole flaw
PB skippy...

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Salvation in an App Store?

By Mark D. Stucky
Google Maps won’t work
for the way I feel lost.
Is there a salvation app
I can install on my phone
to download redemption today
and upload my soul when I die?

Since there are apps
for everything in life,
why not also an app
to access...

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