April Recovery From Poems

Spiritual Listings

By Mark D. Stucky
HGTV loves flipping homes
for fun and improved listings.
Houses, although important shelters,
are impermanent human structures.

Human spirits, in contrast,
are eternal…but need restoration.
Inspections show...

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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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A true love that glows in the dark 
roused the flame of a shady spark; 
A love as pure as break of dawn 
that makes...

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NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

Imagine open heart surgery,
imagine no blood used.
Triple bypass, just beginning,
blood later … still refused.

Previous surgeries had several,
but this one was near death.
One day ok,...

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Not many things make me as happy 
as the sound of your giggles and laugh.
Because I know how hard it is to keep your pride,
after...

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Ready, with God’s help, to
Resurge, recuperate,
Reawake, recover,
Restore, rejuvenate,
Revitalize, repair,
Renew, regenerate,
Readjust—post-Covid



April 16, 2021
entered in Kim Merryman's Pleiades R contest    Placed 1st


June 10, 2021
entered...

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Twenty years have passed since that last cigarette. 
Tonight, out of the clear blue, I craved a king-size ***-- 
The one thing out of everything...

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Twenty-nine years ago my heart gave up on me 
Just sixteen days following my fiftieth birthday, 
attacked like a ton of bricks, suddenly, on a...

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Ability to defecate wildly swings (both ways)...
between incontinence and constipation

Irritable bowel syndrome i.e.
the former excretory bout I address
the above (polite way to phrase diarrhea)
and avoid...

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On my deck I’m sitting to write this pleasant day.
Nary a cloud I see to blot the clear blue sky.
Yellow sun is smiling; the grey...

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Needle less explanation concerning...

Fabled, faded, and faint scars courtesy varicella,  
a highly contagious infection caused 
by varicella zoster virus can still be seen
unlike kids today inoculated during childhood,
thus youngsters deprived...

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Pray for the day...of deliverance

Verse 1
She shares a piece...of meager bread,
with her three children, at her side

She stares in disbelief, and dread,
with no future, coming...

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How ireful  the noise of days’ lecture
Endlessly testing  my patience bare—
And as  I watch corollas of  early moon
Flicker  under an...

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Attention!  Identity crisis!  Who am I?                 ...

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Three bangle bracelets
three initial charms, discrete
July birthday gift from my grandkids.
Three bangle bracelets
initially a set complete
until one bangle hit the skids.

Searching for a small bauble
proved...

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