Heaven Prejudice Poems

Contested Crossroads

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

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The World can be a cruel place
With rigid standards of the norm
And heaven help a being who
Openly doesn’t try to conform.

Fat Alice they called her
Not...

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By a roadside a tattered insult!
Pierced Paul swore not a soul consult.
Why then had he joined case-ending cult?
And who's claiming he can't one assault?
" This...

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My friend had said
Oh! Father
 What color 
My eyes my skin's shades
 Of many MELATONIN (what)
 I have a white mother 
And yet my father's
...

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Dirty Hands

My white hands are dirty
Even if I don’t realize
My burdens light like my skin
I haven’t had the same trials

The house I live in
my manicured...

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The ancient times,
Buried the Genesis 
Of today's psyches,
Recycled but deformed,
Stale and stinking- 
Evolutionary idioms?
The visual décor
And the packaging
Of rotten, 
Oh no, The heaven
Ruined with the...

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Who am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human...

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Let us sit back;
Let us have empathy;
Come together;
People of colour, 
Tell us your story;
I'm here to listen;
For those of us who are white;
Colours promises of...

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I didn't know I was black
until I was an attack
Why is my color so... indifferent
Why? Am I singled out
I'm a human first
unsaved/saved a child of...

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Papa's condemnation of prejudice...

and subsequent grim statistic one
(among millions, or more)
tragedy with feted kiss
Yarraka Bayles darling son
hoop fully experiences bliss,
yet more vehement rage
against machinations (think...

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My time of promise,
before mistrust of parents
settled into growing fear
and grief into angry disappointment

Began with a visit
from a GreatHorned Owl
dying on our barbed wire fence

Announcing...

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They were fishes swimming in the same pond, but stuck up.
There were only two of them, but they did not speak.
One was polka dotted, the...

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WHAT IS THIS THING PREJUDICE---


I AM black my skin is dark
It's 1940 why must I sit in the back
My fellow man is lighter than
I'm part...

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That phrase above I was taught
It’s just however business talk
It never cared or had a thought
Nor did consider anyone else’s strife 
Because it thinks it’s...

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Once upon a summer’s sandwich, over in Birdgum Hollow, the one from the old kingdom, not new.
There lived two birds, one glam, a falconet, and...

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