Religious 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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Soaked in Grace

By Mark D. Stucky
When partaking of communion,
“intinction” is the practice
of dipping the bit of bread
into a common cup.
The bottom of the bread
becomes soaked...

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Margin of Error

By Mark D. Stucky
If, statistically, Adam and Eve
hadn’t exceeded Eden’s margin of error,
would lambs now be lounging with lions?
Would toothy T-Rexes have been...

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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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Jericho Roads

By Mark Stucky
At the end of the rock-strewn road,
fell the walls surrounding Jericho.
Spared from destruction,
were a harlot’s people,
the family of Rahab,
Israel’s unlikely ally,
and unlikely...

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“The Shedding of our Skin” 
 
I am writing about the transition from lost now found, 
Darkness to light, one being into another, death to life, 
Old skin to...

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It's like your world is ending 
Everything comes crashing down
Can't catch your breathe
Down, down, down you drown

Waking in the morning
To another dreaded day
Going through the...

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Tired
of living the same,
day by day.
Here I stay,
stuck in a hypothetical rut.
Tires spinning,
I want to feel like enough.
Sick
of not forgiving myself.
Wisdom is wealth,
follow her now,
I...

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I’m sorry. I don’t care about 
Stained glass or Holy whereabouts.

No, Momma,
I can’t keep living—
As if I believe

The words are spoken, only to deceive.

I bare...

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Don't stop believing
Pray
Lionel Derbyshire

Yet one of life's most beautiful gallery's is to see the transformation and change 
from bad to good , 
from unhappy to...

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POOR THOMAS

Poor Thomas has met that darn demon ginger cat on the prowl
As I heard a lot of spitting and hissing, then, one almighty howl

I...

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God said to man "Breathe, Now"
Man said to God "Don't know how"
God replied "I've already shown you, son"
Man sighed "Am I the only one?"

My tool...

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LIFE'S MEDICATION

I feel this coloured pill
...of yours but still
I'd wish and hope these pills
Level out all your hills
...of pain and trauma till you heal
Because your...

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She had seen,
the other side, 
of heaven.

Where she walked a narrow bridge,
between purgatory, 
and eternal life.

She's not religious,
and no she's not,
Insane.

She dug her own grave,...

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Birthing genesis back to We
Falling out as from freedom's favorite tree
Rebirthing Earth wombs warm content
Extending out where gospel time grows bent

Through Creation's prism for network...

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