Political Spiritual Poems

In the grand story of life, a tale unfolds,
Of the Haves and have-nots, their stories untold.
For in this world, where survival reigns supreme,
Life's true meaning...

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"I will make you a great nation [Israel]; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will...

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Divinity’s Pew

The truth stands in contrast
to only itself
Once mentioned eternal
when thought and then felt
It lives in the ether
past fortune or fame
Conscripted by conscience
no praise and...

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It's about the meaning, not the messenger.
It's about the message, not the money.
It's about time to make things better.
It's about how we can live in...

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As the Cup Runneth Over

	           thirst
         ...

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Mistaking side by side pluralism
for more resonant 
co-infested polyculturalism

Is like mistaking chaotic divisions
for resilient organic complexity,
integral multiplicity

Like only perceiving competitive dissonance 
and degenerative
confusion
while missing inside...

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Dearest,
I know we agreed
to practice stretching our compassion
to include those we actively loath,
and I have been trying
but...

Yes, I know,
it's difficult to out-trump Trump's
apparent toxicity,
with benign...

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Go ahead,
Tell the world what to do
So it’s more like
The world you want.
Forget for a moment
You have only been here
For a moment
While the world
Both the...

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In these troubled times
Let your animal spirit
Be the honey badger
Small but fiercely indomitable 

Stand up, stand tall
As those waves of faux outrage
Spew from the cavernous...

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I have heard all your excuses 
I have listened to all your pleas
It is time to pay the pipers 
With the sweet tears of your...

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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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This land of entitlement 
entertainment and enterprise 
lost burnt broken...despised 
skeletal structures reaching 
griping 
clutching 
scraping this infernal sky!

Arcane factories sit on horizons 
haunted like...

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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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Contested Crossroads

By Mark D. Stucky
On a battleground bloodied across millennia,
on a compact land bridge spanning continents and gods…

       ...

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A Theology of Boxes

By Mark Stucky
Praise God for “boxes”
        that form infrastructure for living!
Praise God for customs, conventions,...

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