Cartography Poems - Poems about Cartography

Cartography of Salvation By Mark D. Stucky No outline on a globe. No page in an atlas. No ink on a road map. No pixels in Google. But parabolically defined by two roads, one wide, one narrow, one seducing toward stealthy corruption, one steering toward a new creation, a cartography of salvation etched in ancient, timeless words. And when we feel lost or take a wrong turn, congested is...

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I. ROMANCE begins with a supernovae as two hearts decrease space between walls and fears; the ice-floe of painful life melts, once powerful thoughts and conviction now powerless, against a force of Nature If Lust then a brilliant lit moment; if by divine guidance True Love as eternal. II. Ages and Time and Ages roll by the music plays upon hours and thoughts as ivory keys; ...

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A river threads a patchwork of activity, Uniting man to nature, his desire, To commune, make his mark, despite the brevity, Of each man’s passage from flame to ebbing fire. Clouds, with silent dabs, caress the land, Forge maps for mind and eye, Suddenly, a ray illuminates a narrow band, A field where puffy dots graze or lie, A stone among them, its...

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

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I count the syllables of your dreams, tracing my way home, using each one as a compass; Pulling me to you. Your tongue outlines this map, shooting stars into the mouth of a lost sky. I can feel your veins pulse against the skin of discovery; wild drums beat in the heart of my prowl. The lashes of your eyes, in the sway of trees, scatter across...

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