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Cyber Warfare

...Upon my graduation from MIT,
they didn’t hand me a diploma.
They handed me a mask—
and a seat at the table of shadows.

They called me Director,
but in truth, I became a ghost in the wires—
a ...

Categories: cartographers, america, betrayal, conflict, evil,
Form: Free verse

Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges

...I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
th...

Categories: cartographers, dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Love Sciences

...
Love Sciences

By Mark D. Stucky
If romantic love requires “chemistry,”
how elemental for love is physics?
Negative and positive charges
lustfully attract one another....

Categories: cartographers, emotions, feelings, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

No Brave New World

...

  In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, 
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, 
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness 
wronged-vaped, winged
to the w...

Categories: cartographers, art,
Form: Rhyme

Your Smile

...They have all tried,
long before the great da Vinci,
both ancient and modern cartographers,
to wit,
‘Goode’, the Evil Mercator,
tried and failed.

Not one
had the skill or imagination
to map...

Categories: cartographers, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Blue Sky Surprise

...In a fluffy blue sky, clouds of Europe revealed
The continent forms, so ghostly surreal
With a boot for Italy, three-fingered Scandinavia
  Off the coast lies England, royal isle like Batavia

A...

Categories: cartographers, blue, mystery, sky,
Form: Couplet

Interdependent Americans

..."I do not see what right any one would have
to object to calling this part 
[the South American mainland], 
after Americus 
who discovered it 
and who is a man of intelligence, 
Amerigen, 
tha...

Categories: cartographers, earth, health, history, humanity,
Form: Political Verse

Misguided Cartography

...Looking at the stars
We play life's cartographers
Hastily naming
Which ones we're meant to follow
And which to pass in wonder...

Categories: cartographers, confusion, journey, life, stars,
Form: Tanka

The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel 2

...The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel  2

The Poem is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and his Charkha


Cotton has always won the hearts 
Of every men and women 
In every age
Whether it was th...

Categories: cartographers, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Pregnant Starlight

...In my radio psychology grows
A loopy Admiral constant
Heaving between seas porous
With blue tongued underwater arches
Roman cathedrals with baboon guardtowers
Cerebrally undergoing city territory
The...

Categories: cartographers, art, computer-internet, family, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Allowed Him No Latitude

...ALLOWED    HIM    NO   LATITUDE


Andy, professional cartographer, adored his maps,
Valued them more than anything perhaps
As any cartographer would
As  all cartographers should  -
Lovingly drawing h...

Categories: cartographers, funny, river,
Form: Couplet

Dream Haven

...Lands unseen are always best--
Landscapes in your mind--
Blessed Islands gleaming west
Cartographers can’t find.

Terra Incognita lies
Past all Southern seas,
Under unknown golden skies
That ...

Categories: cartographers, imagination
Form: Verse

Cartographers of a Multiple's Universe

...Setting boundaries, drawing lines,
Mapping the geography of our multiples’ minds

It’s undiscovered, familiar territory,
A continent of islands
And we’re exploring old new low lands,
Uncovering...

Categories: cartographers, confusion, devotion, health, hope,
Form: Free verse