Long Conversions Poems

I was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...

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Life 101 was taught to me in an old mansion in inner-city Chicago.                      ...

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"America's health care system
is neither healthy,
caring,
nor a system."
Walter Cronkite

An organic system,
an interdependent co-governing web
of relationships between communicating subsystems,

To be resilient,
to remain robust,
must be win/win cooperative rooted
and not so much capitalist,
headstrong win/lose dominant intended.

Win/lose plutocratic,
kleptocracy,
and capitalist...

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"I moved through the Quarter
as if through a stage-set to an opera
which, having finished its run,
might be struck at any moment."
      John Wray, Canaan's Tongue

I move through this post-selection Quarter
as...

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I am familiar
with evangelical conversions
understood as moving away from sinner,
unredeemed heathen,
unenlightened addiction to evil,
demonically disempowered
reprobate status
moving toward regenerative winner status
saved by the blood of the Lamb.

This traditional way of processing
progressive
therapeutic conversion
is a change through predation,
colonization,
of...

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Red China and the so-called American school systems are not the only ones who used the Critical Race Theory to its advance. Look back at Nazi Germany under their leadership of a madman who was...

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On a cool winter morn just before 8 AM, I decided to take my walk on an 'L-shaped street' that's about 3 blocks long with three cul-de-sacs connected to it.  Coming out of my...

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In some integral green ways,
and blues truths,
and red-hot fear-filled/angry rightwing lives,

We all began as the ecofeminist 
EarthMother-wombed and -birthed
children

And, thereby,
co-attached with her EarthMother's health-egged 
mind/body habitat-nurturing womb

Ecosystemic
regenerative,
win/win committed
embedded
indigenous

Win/Win ReGenerative Living
Loving Nature EcoSystemic
environment
Holy EnSpirited back
back
back
to when...

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The Perfectionist is Listening

the rich are committing suicide
and taking us with them
the prosthetic limbed bastards
Fort Darwin tottering on fewer stilts
once the masters of the universe
presently picking through garbage
looking for an Icarus to pilot
some way back...

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Internal conversions of consciousness,
like external revolutions in cultural awareness,
emerge from understanding Ego's embodied death as unmitigated 100% loss
and too often suffering and pain,
toward comprehending mindbody death of Self
as also re-investment opportunity
in timeless co-present Self/Other co-arising...

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Giveth yet Taketh Away.

 

She created being for me

young meant lucky in that

overnight she admittedly disappeared

without a fight and no rapacious thoughts

 

Hidden away in the hills eloping with the free

mammoth conversions taken aboard

as she...

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Do we still belong together,
long to compassion with each other
more than against?

Do we still believe
Earth is more of a regeneratively developing memory
than a degeneratively unraveling lack of cherished experience?

Can we still distinguish between
organic becoming
and autonomous...

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(Author’s note: This poem is a humorous satire on how a modern media mentality would view the story of Christ’s Ascension.)


The Ascension (with Rewrites)

By Mark D. Stucky
Look!
Up in the sky!
Not a bird.
Certainly no plane.
It’s super...

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Soft is light not seen;
like warm lips felt on dry skin,
that has slept many hours
and has only had darkness for dreams...
Black swirls, waves, splashes of nothing.
Sow sound is quiet that you forget how time is...

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We are in 
the breeze 
with trees possible 
off the flying lake

look for orange cone
wearing silver mask
in front of the office 
in back of the park

No back-to-back
or front-to-back
conversations
on old rocky route
where roots are not masked

Dogs...

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So a lifetime went by
watching the silver screen
or just hanging about in the foyer
waiting for the right movie to start,
or fooling around on the back row
groping thrilling morsels of joy,
and all the time
denying God, or...

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The church today seems so weak
as the bible isn't giving it's authorative place
so many watering down it's voice
making the gospel's message cheap grace

Maybe so many conversions aren't that
they've confessed Christ but not lived as Christ
the...

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listen ...

do you hear that?
          turn off everything and listen ...
               ...

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December Paris  

Winter Paris pavement cafés vacant chairs and poor sparrows look for 
baguette crumbs. Artists had gone to their loft conversions, in bed with 
their models and plates of goose liver pate, waiting...

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My Pain creates the more meaningful words, and sometimes I have enough pain for the world

I had been waiting but didn't know I’d still be waiting

We talked about the future and goals only for those...

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slithering world serpent through the ocean of air
impunity by nature , to understand thee thy dare
infiltrate , dominate , conversions at will
wooing the masses , lies , poisonous they spill
masters of craft , art ,...

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Encoding seven binary digits in length;
Of so these sequences;
All 'dim ones and zeros'
Bits, radices conversions with divisor two;
An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, According to
All 'dim ones and zeros'
Instructions...

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A true atheist shouldn't bother with skepticism,
Shouldn't feel indignant, after all they simply
Don't believe in Something at all.

A true believer shouldn't bother with conversions.
Shouldn't be so repulsed, after all we share
A belief in Something.
 
A...

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a pastoral piece (free verse)

He works hard to write of the evils of sinning.
then sneaks home with Playboy to read after supper.

He preaches wrong habits week in and week out but
those same habits are alright...

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Maybe we're subjugated to 
certain subjects and
 I revolve around you 
while you reflect on me. 
Maybe we are light
 and part night.
 Energy and passion 
overflowing; amassing, 
Oceans of surplus
maybe your touch unmasks me
...

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