Relationship Racism Poems

(Note: In this abecedarian poem, I redacted the name of the particular denomination to protect the innocent and to universalize the context. Fill in your...

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Hate Vacuuming?

By Mark Stucky
Vacuum cleaners are pneumatic nobles,
built to cleanse our offices and homes,
sucking dust from floors and crevices
to discard in trash cans
(where dirt belongs).

What...

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(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race...

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Tell them
Open their eyes
See the truth hear the facts
Listen to the wise ones always
Tell him

Tell him
Always be kind
Shine with the brighter stars
Let the man match...

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With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration...

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"Energy fields extend to infinity.
Consequently they are open--
not a little bit open,
not sometimes open,
but continuously open.
The long-established view of the universe as an entropic,
closed system...

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I won’t hold my breath for the day you stop butchering us. We already have enough issues trying to breathe with you around. They said...

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A problem with using scripture
as a spiritual guide

More prominently
more fundamentally
more evangelically
than establishing a relationship with a mentor
a teacher
a spiritual director
facilitator
mediator
between egocentric LeftBrain dominant reading
and ecosystemic...

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During the second century, there were many Christians who were tortured and put to death for being Christian. There was one named Sanctus* who, when...

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The main currents of thought
are feelings 
about relationships,
positive
and negative climates,
sometimes obscured
confused
by double-binding negatives
incuriously set aside
as merely bad news
and systemic evils

Like racism
applied to oneself
as victim of...

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If I woke up with a white skin, I would not abandon a colored friend
If my true love became yellow, I would be too blind...

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May supreme Force
become You.

How is whiteness
like straightness?
she asked

And how is maleness
like left-brain dominance?
he responded.

It seems, 
to usually curious
and always ancient
right with left dipolar ecofeminist Us,

Contracts...

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The thing you have to realize,
my wife and I don’t look the same,
some would say we’re different ‘races,’
but I find that concept inane.

Some hate seeing...

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To Him, No One is a Rank Stranger 

No one is a rank stranger
	hiding behind dark threats.
No one is a rank stranger
	concealing their cruel epithets.

Recognizing...

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Last night, I strummed a rainbow of songs.

Songs written by many diverse folks from, across the world.

Afterwards, I slid down that rainbow and celebrated the...

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