War Earth Poems

I watch the world and the maddening crowd
As I float by on a cumulus cloud
High on my perch, all this sadness I see
I dream of...

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Spring Hope

Waiting for the first green shoots to join our world,

For the first signs of hope,
To arrive from winter's night,

For darkness to melt into the...

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The Bitter Soil, Gaza 2024

Earth, Gaia, mother of us all
wars defile her sacred gifts
we sow the dead like seeds
reap a harvest from our guns

in this...

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Found in space
possible sighting
worthy of closeup

change of course
wonder on the horizon
a balanced theme

an event of sorts
natural or not
a peculiar thing

mayhaps instrumental
tis unfortunate
no contact

be it but...

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For the accuser of our brothers  [Satan], who accuses them before our God
day and night has been hurled down [to the earth].  They...

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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...

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Butterflies renouncing their dreams...
Birds with trimmed wings... 

Blood ocean... barren trees... burnt houses...
Teared eyes... and shattered bodies….

Earth is ugly.... Earth is savage...
Earth is but a...

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Your Order for Peace on Earth

By Mark D. Stucky
Since Amazon has almost everything,
I placed several orders for Peace on Earth.
I hoped the shipments would arrive...

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The sun sets leaping in fierce golden shafts
As days shift shorter with Winter’s warning
We seek emblazoned fires from the chilled drafts
That glaze windows from iced...

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They are running from camp to camp, carrying all that they have, big bundles mounted on their head with an appointment to meet the dead.
A...

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Soot covered in the sky,
unending wails of freedom,
bereaved families and friends
even the little ones were not spared
but the dead ones will forever be alive in...

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Never thought I'd live long enough to see a holocaust.
A holy slip of land whittled into a divining rod for carnage and death.
The footsteps of...

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War is never nice and friendly
Make no error about it
Invasion is war, death of a country
Nostra culpa est
There is no amicable invasion
Obviously, this is an...

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Old age is a mystery,
     Because, for some there is war,
     For some there is peace.

 ...

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Floating away from worldly chaos
My mind engages with the stars
Consumed with emotion at earthly pathos
Humanity hurts with so many scars.

Endless wars inflicted on innocent
Famine endured,...

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