Food Religion Poems

In the cycle of lives, in the wheel of fate,
We tread our paths, our deeds dictate,
For in Hindu belief, karma reigns supreme,
Guiding our souls like...

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Existential Exams

By Mark D. Stucky
Math problems, essay questions,
multiple choice, fill in the blanks…
Many are the tests we take
from grade school through grad school.

We also encounter...

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   Football's my neighborhood's religion
     its altar, the couch near the kitchen

   Worshiping the big-screen television
 ...

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Selected by the swift sound of hand to shoulder blade,
The bells upon their ankles sounded like seven trumpets
to me. I had been a chosen sheep...

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Across miles of sea, on a distant shore
People flee, buildings burn, as missiles soar
Hate spews, with evil we cannot ignore
Lives injured and lost, in the...

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Unexpected Coming

By Mark D. Stucky

“Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” (Luke 12:40)

Nobody...

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How did you become featherless
Angels are always blessed and do bless
Standing too close to the fire
Devil got me in a crossfire
Make sure you always tell...

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Who are we but our practices,
Our ancient food and songs,
Who are the chosen few that we meet in the beyond?

Where are the lines beneath,
From order...

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I don't know the way to prostrate properly 
I don't know how to make supplications discreetly 
The droplets just drip down my cheeks 
That's how...

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Enduringly left the spiritual task
Of praying for what Catholics  ask:
A fresh day in her wondrous breakthroughs bask,
An open-it-and-one-finds-rich food flask,
For lovers of the fabric:...

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That which has a nice taste
One wouldn't want to waste.
Kids would it chew to a paste,
Eating it not in haste:
It is the strongest zeal
For a...

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As i understand the scriptures while reading, 
My Soul rejoices.
Dry fasting and praying for  seven days, 
My Spirit boosts.
Preaching and teaching people, 
My Soul induces.
Singing...

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I'm working on this Systems Theory

All existing formal religious traditions
and informal spiritual experience 
of Great Sacred EcoLogical Transitions
[e.g. Holocene to 
Green AnthroScene;
HolySpirit to
Whole Holonic Natural...

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One causal cadence continues casting, 
Crawling, creeping, conniving, grasping, 
Graven, rotten, rude, deprived, 
Hatred, boiling, bursting, sly. 

This cadence is personified, the cause 
Is what...

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For official reasons claim it’s bread: 
Favorite food none other than Bread,
On days you couldn’t have it turned red,
For hours still awake though in bed;
You...

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