Religious Psychological Poems

Faith Bird

By Mark D. Stucky

 “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” -- Rabindranath Tagore


Faith bird,...

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(Five Buddha Mandala, 2018, original encaustic)

Notes on Religion and Faith

The superstition of religious content applies to all religions and faiths.

They are the context of faith.

But...

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(I)
I am the vessel of flesh
the libertine lecher
heaped in the ash of
Mosaic burnt offerings
I search for a lifeline
with both eyes
entombed,
wishfully sinking
in my antediluvian covenant

(II)
I am...

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Stop pretending
your racism is patriotism

Stop pretending
your sexism is natural

Stop pretending
your homophobia 
is healthy heterosexuality

Stop pretending
your religious orthodoxy
isn't xenophobia

Stop pretending
your patriarchalism
doesn't justify
and sanctify
indigenous feminism

Stop pretending
your monotheism
isn't,
once...

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No Longer Legion

By Mark D. Stucky
Demons departed
via possessed pigs,
down the dusty slope,
drowning under waves,
descending into the Abyss
from which they came.

Purged of evil spirits, 
my new...

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Extreme Baptism

By Mark D. Stucky
What water volume optimizes baptism?
Sprinkling, pouring, or total immersion?
Will more water cleanse my crimes better?
Will all my many sins wash away?

I...

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A Theology of Boxes

By Mark Stucky
Praise God for “boxes”
        that form infrastructure for living!
Praise God for customs, conventions,...

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Whale Wayfarers

By Mark Stucky
Are you obsessed like Captain Ahab,
horizon-bound to harpoon that whale?
Could that addiction shipwreck you
and drown loved ones surrounding you?
Is your Pequod-like quest
worth...

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Reluctant Rogue Redo?

By Mark Stucky
If Jonah, reluctant rogue of a prophet,
had desired to visit Ninevah,
instead of fleeing the other direction,
how different would his story have...

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Purgatorial Perceptions

By Mark D. Stucky
In the basement, I heard fluttering sounds
coming from inside the old chimney.
Cautiously opening the clean-out trap,
I came nose-to-beak with a panicked...

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God Around the Corner

By Mark D. Stucky
My cat’s favorite spot to sleep and surveil the house
was at the top of the hallway-to-basement stairs.
I would sometimes...

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Jurassic Prayer

By Mark D. Stucky
We asked our preschooler to pray,
and with dinner plates before us
and our hands folded,
he paused in silence
and then roared in imitation
of...

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If I was God,
I would have put the forbidden fruit a bit higher
So Eve wouldn't reach it
I wouldn't just make it forbidden, i would hire...

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Being is life that gives life, truth that gives truth 
It is not perfect, good or divine 
It is simply beyond all these attributes 
Immeasurable...

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Too much enlightenment
with not enough empowerment
depresses me to feel isolated
and surrounded by self-impressed fools,
like me
or against me.

Too much empowerment
with not enough enightenment
anticipates
and advocates
and avidly endorses
narcissistic...

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