Journey Religion Poems

In the world of code and creed,  
Heart and mind, a dualistic seed.  
Nights of work, days of strain,  
Drafts, redone, again,...

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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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(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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The anti-Darwinian portal
Pass through and your soul's immortal
This fills church coffers
Without refund offers
And that's why priests seem to chortle...

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Your Order for Peace on Earth

By Mark D. Stucky
Since Amazon has almost everything,
I placed several orders for Peace on Earth.
I hoped the shipments would arrive...

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Star of Wondering

By Mark D. Stucky
Luminous mystery in the night,
      are you supernatural light?
Or a supernova
    ...

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Author’s note: The following is in haibun form—poetic prose (microfiction with less than 200 words in this case) coupled with a haiku. It was written...

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by Max Burchett

As fast as I can
Running on, on and on
With hope this carries me to
Where I want to go
Higher and higher with you.

As time...

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My favored Muse
mysteriously asks
muted
kinda sexist
win/lose 
either/or 
complex bilateral questions.

Oppositional
defiant
nearly despairing quests
exploring why I have yet to find
Faith
Hope
or delightful Joy
as names for a boy

Who might be...

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In this picture
perfect moment
your hands stencil
around the gaping wound
while your fingers
glue together
the scattered shards
entwining my glassy conviction

You swim against
the ebbing flow of
time’s vagaries
caressing me with
a...

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Like emerald pastures
for tarried gazelles,
the shaded monastery
nestled between wedges of
tectonic New World protrusions
was a cathedral for
ecclesiastic contemplation,
an oasis for the
pilgrim explorer
to traverse the tattered
pages of...

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Words in the Wind

By Mark D. Stucky
Winds carried away the words
that Jesus, the Word made flesh,
wrote in the dust,
while sitting near a trembling woman,
who was...

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Candlelights

By Mark D. Stucky
A candle drives darkness back
with beauty of glowing light,
giving of itself as flame’s fuel
until completing its calling.
Then another candle takes its place…
and...

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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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(Author's note: Traditions of walking a labyrinth as a form of meditation go back to at least the fourth century. Labyrinths in Christian contexts usually...

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