Love Shooting Poems

Tell you this again,
When you see
A shooting star,
Someone loves you,

Someone tells you
“Eat chocolates”
Offer jewelry,
Think of me, then,

Pineapple flavors,
Mango flavors,
On a distant island
There is happiness,

Tell you...

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She is my whole galaxy,
 A vast expanse of love and light,
 I swim within her starry depths, 
 And bask in her celestial might.

...

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In the dark of night
I seen a light
Was it a Star from a far?
Or a Planet?
Or another sun?
And as I learned,
Could it be
When time begun?
You...

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I’d like to sing to you a lullaby
To make all your troubles disappear
Tell you there is no need to cry
That you will never know hate...

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In the dark sublime
You're the shooting star
Healing grim moments
Like receding glacier 

Oh shooting star
You're hope to the stoic 
Joy to the despondent 
Lighting darkest nights...

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Come, my shooting star,
Open my door,
As the night is so long in your absence,

Come, my sweet dove,
Open my poem,
As my verses are so sad, in...

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Weapons of Wonder

By Mark Stucky
If humans must wage war,
let it be upon our own evils.
Let there be genocide on
violence and divisiveness,
malice and indifference,
prejudice and inequity,
foolishness...

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(In memory of the 19 children and two adults killed by gun violence in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022…as well as the countless others...

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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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Was I maudlin over our breakup? For a minute.

If I think of you now, it’s like a slideshow of unflattering images.

At the time, my breakup...

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To celebrate Earth Day I went out early to watch the Lyrid Meteor shower make its yearly visit past Jupiter and Mars.
Why would I celebrate...

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These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings.


Nashville Covenant Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch

Our hearts are broken today
for our children's...

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I don't know
How
But we let it happen
again
there are already
too many
too many angels in the sky
too many. 
a girl
trying to save everyone
a heroine 
a little boy
who...

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Triggers are red,
barrels are blue.
Smith and Wesson
I love you!

Targets are set,
guns are sighted.
In my hand,
I get excited!

Bore snakes out
Hoppe’s too
be good to them
they’ll be good...

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Shooting stars
By Michelle Morris
03/12/2022

Like shooting stars
Across the sky
We lit up the night
We lit up our lives

We met when 
I was young
A teenage girl 
With eyes...

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