Spiritual Corruption Poems

There is a demon at your heart’s door,
He’s been around since days of yore.
His goal is to become your kin,
And corrupt your life from within.

He...

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Power over power   
Is a demon, 
who has    
silky, 
smooth, 
skin.   
With a diamond on his tongue, 
he...

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("Before And After Science", 2023, original encaustic)

The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred

There are traditions
Passed down in ear-whisper lineages
And Dead Sea scrolls
Dream...

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Politicians do favors for a bribe

Priests grant forgiveness for pay

Doctors will heal if money is real

God sees all of their deals...

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The power to name is a trait of God.
After making man, He named him Adam.
The power to name, God shared it with man.
God made the...

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I have heard all your excuses 
I have listened to all your pleas
It is time to pay the pipers 
With the sweet tears of your...

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The rows and pews, the uproar of pain
Saint's can't tame
Hold your hands,
pray for the one up above-- confess your sins before the statue
The symbol of...

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Spiritual Listings

By Mark D. Stucky
HGTV loves flipping homes
for fun and improved listings.
Houses, although important shelters,
are impermanent human structures.

Human spirits, in contrast,
are eternal…but need restoration.
Inspections show...

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Margin of Error

By Mark D. Stucky
If, statistically, Adam and Eve
hadn’t exceeded Eden’s margin of error,
would lambs now be lounging with lions?
Would toothy T-Rexes have been...

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This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like...

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This debt crisis they postpone
And due dates will vary
It may come with no warning
Stalking the unwary

"Ban hate!", "Ban hate!", they holler
Their war is not with...

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casting away all pieces and parts 
of an existence full of casual talk 
of board rooms full of rage
lost bodies in burning classrooms

full of philosophy...

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Something inside me is calling
Some things are caught on thorny thoughts 
Sometimes I radiate and deviate as thoughts linger

I bleed icy dreams
Dark as ink, silent...

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Space n Time
Out of place

Things are out of grace

Nothing has rhyme or reason anymore 
Losing all trace

Out of our time within our space
Everything is sublime...

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Sackcloth and ashes
blood and steel clashes 

carbon dust burnt at last 
digging the umber crust

sackcloth and ashes lie 
as time passes into the future 

it...

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