Spring Hiku
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s s.o.a.k spring *s*p*a*r*k*l*e*
beguiled ~b~r~e~e~z~e~ makes ri-pp-li-ng music
s w i n g s serenade
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Categories:
pp, nature,
Form: Other
Persnickety Pig
...Persnickety pig, persnickety pig
Would you like to smoke a favorite cig?
Cancer chances are amazingly big
He is being tempted by his cousin Quig
How about alcohol? Please take a swig.
Come her...
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Categories:
pp, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Love Sciences
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Love Sciences
By Mark D. Stucky
If romantic love requires “chemistry,”
how elemental for love is physics?
Negative and positive charges
lustfully attract one another....
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Categories:
pp, emotions, feelings, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Gilded Crosses?
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Gilded Crosses?
By Mark D. Stucky
Shiny icons gleaming on altars?
And hanging from necks on gilded chains?
No. Not back then…
Not golden, not metal,...
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Categories:
pp, dark, death, easter, hope,
Form: Free verse
Star of Wondering
...Star of Wondering
By Mark D. Stucky
Luminous mystery in the night,
are you supernatural light?
Or a supernova
shining bright?
Or a planetary conjunction
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Categories:
pp, christmas, light, mystery, science,
Form: Rhyme
Sympathy For Peace
...Zionist
for Israel, but
I don't invest,
in WAR...
I'm a pacifist...
For Arab
as for any other people
being legalistic
without exclusivist predilection...
for peaceful solution
no arms race...
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Categories:
pp, extended metaphor, inspirational, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
Love Tanka
...i
when the sun is erotic
and the moon lyric
the winds turn tempestuous
in the orbit of love
legs slide by calls of nature
ii
you and I alive
in cold winter night feeling
warmth of your...
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Categories:
pp, body, love, senses, sexy,
Form: Tanka
Consider the Dreaming Birds
...Consider the (Dreaming) Birds
By Mark D. Stucky
Jesus told us to consider the birds of the air.
I have pondered parakeets (budgies) in a cage
routinely performing what s...
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Categories:
pp, christian, dream, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Bad Denim
...Held you
in the light
of faded blue jean
memories
Starring down the contour of your thighs
kissing gently the dimples of your knees
starting to squeeze
your ankles too tight.
That...
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Categories:
pp, beauty, clothes, fashion, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Stone Soup
...The storm stirred…having ingredients our neighbors provided.
Stolen goods, the storm stashed in its wings, and headed East.
The storm boiled in Mississippi - all baby boomers spelled
that state vo...
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Categories:
pp, storm,
Form: Haibun
Les Miserable
...I have such a miserable face,
Grimacing and frowning, a disgrace,
I am a disgrace to the human race
Who suffers by looking at this sad face.
Why do I always wear a frown?
What right have I to ...
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Categories:
pp, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Why Father
...JOHN BUNYAN anticipated future, OUR neutral nomenclature
Some say God is "too male" - 'twere better "goddess" and "Mother"
My "preacher" saw sins since Adam and Eve, Face of Salvation:
"Such a com...
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Categories:
pp, christian, community, devotion, discrimination,
Form: Epigram
Humanness The- Quality of Being Human-
...HUMANNESS
-the quality of being human-
Angels or Demons?
No, we are Humans.
We preach divinity or devilish?
No, we preach Humanity.
Oh! Although in the logical world!
Divinity is for the d...
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Categories:
angel, appreciation, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
66
...Clickety-click, Clickety-clicks,
Maggie and Sharon are 66.
Friends forever, there whenever,
It's always fun when they're together.
Tickety-tick, Tickety-tock,
Time to share, no need for a cloc...
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Categories:
pp, birthday, family, friendship, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The Cost of Tolerating Diversity Don'T Read
...You're "afraid" to get out and cast a vote,
but not of rioting in the streets.
You say you champion diversity,
but take away fetal rights to be.
(At the evolving life-point of no return,
(Sci...
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Categories:
pp, abortion, absence, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
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