Crusaders Poems

A New Idea

...It’s a brand new big idea
The banned country of such size
So I want to make it clear
Either way it looks unwise
Wasn’t Germany at war
In Bach’s time, and wasn’t France
Fighting England till the...

There’s a Hole in the Bucket

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"There’s a Hole in the Bucket"

What an ugly world 
when poets turn on each other
life is a bank of territories
left and right and lost in between, isolated in limbo
the...

Who is right and who is wrong

...Somewhere, a poem exists in our minds about love, life, politics, natural disasters, religion, and contentious issues.  

Suddenly, political uprisings and wars emerge, with ISIS and figures like D...

The Bath House

...Atop a bed of plastic
In a house made of bone
I am helpless to feel Rome’s revival
Men become sheep and wolves
Crusaders line up for war
Careless toward their fellow heretic
Houses burn
Stone ...

Urban Slab

...some level of falling from grace happens in slab city
its twisted humanity
when kindness stops being nornal
when green crusaders are dismissed, unseen
like burying waste in landfill

city of sl...

a beautiful dream, slowly dying

...The earth wept for no reason 
under a soft articulate noise 
of auctioned lives, 
a beautiful dream, slowly dying.

Rottenness seeks in the soul
righteous prey,
grown from pure moment...

The Omen Road

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I rode my bike down Omen Road,  
Knew they'd be after me, I'd reap what I sowed.  
Crossed into Jersey, saw a dead bird ahead—  
I prefer voices, I get symbols instead

In a pullout was a conv...

Dauntless

..."Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution"   William Shakespeare

My passion arouses the pulsing of my heart.
My identity fearlessly embarks toward the start.

The confidence I muster surges da...

There was a Great Silence

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"There was a Great Silence"


There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all the cacophony in t...

The Stain Crusaders

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"The Stain Crusaders"

Plath left the pages long ago
and Bacharach’s Blue-on-Blue
is an ineffectual softer numb-shade-of-Blue
dear green green Anthropocene 

this m...

Easter as interpreted by one

...Easter as interpreted by one...

rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted, 
and rebuked courtesy 
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devo...

Destined To Ride

...
 I Traversed the Inner Universe Deep Within my Soul
 and Slayed the Dragon Oppressor up on it's High Horse,
 It seemed Prophetic
 To Rise Into the Greater Nature, Balancing Scales for the Cosmic...

Crusaders

...I’m finally ready 
discovered it yesterday 
while walking on Madison  and 74th. 
The times of destruction are gone 
bending is not breaking  
a trip is not always a fall .

A message to haters...

Keep

...KEEP

All keep safe and heed my warning
Too late to escape by early morning
And surrounded as the day is dawning
The outer walls are thick and strong
But battered, they’ll not last too long
An...

Contested Crossroads

...Contested Crossroads

By Mark D. Stucky
On a battleground bloodied across millennia,
on a compact land bridge spanning continents and gods…

        Canaanites, Philisti...

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