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Premium MemberCodons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy

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We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.

They had the secret.
Not gold, n...
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Categories: spliced, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberGod Walks Warmly Alongside Death

...Warmly describes a human emotion,
understandably applied for humans to
pleasure, as it's biblically written
where the prophets of old and new
entertained the clueless population
yet ...
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Categories: spliced, bible, christian, faith, heaven,
Form: Didactic



Simply

...Nothing complex about His love, 
A relationship with Father above, 
To seek Him is to love Christ,
Father, Son, Holy Spirit a trinity spliced....
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Categories: spliced, christian,
Form: Rhyme

Movies

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A hero turns conspiratorially,
staring into my future.

What he said into the camera then,
is meaningless now,
but I see his lips move,
as if he were predicting this moment.

A heroine hike...
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Categories: spliced, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPadded Wall Earth

...Build a padded wall around the entire earth.
We've become one giant insane asylum. 
For which there's no cure.

While you're at it.
Hang a neon vacant eyes sign.
For everything has turned into....
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Categories: spliced, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGod Around the Corner

...God Around the Corner

By Mark D. Stucky
My cat’s favorite spot to sleep and surveil the house
was at the top of the hallway-to-basement stairs.
I would sometimes stealth...
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Categories: spliced, cat, god, prayer, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Fishing Steps

...Still clear and sunlit
are the tanned, weathered faces
of the fisherman,
their bloodshot eyes,
beanies and checkered shirts,
how they
stood hip deep
in their boats 
looking up at a gathered c...
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Categories: spliced, fish, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Coming Through the Sword

...She waited on the ground
For the first stone to be thrown
Guilty as charged
Coming through brambles, her seed had grown

In silence he lingers
Secrets choking the soul to shame
All the regrets...
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Categories: spliced, identity, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBe Mine

...I sit by the window motionless
Looking at the sky getting darker
Inside me a sea swells, tides of memories
Beat my heart, the only keepsake I have.
Like a thick shelled oyster, tightly sp...
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Categories: spliced, angst, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCessation

...broken
ends of a love
being spliced together. 
 couple on the outs hit the pause...
button. 



Date written: 12/31/2021...
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Categories: spliced, conflict, peace, relationship,
Form: Cinquain

Badly Spliced

...An actor returns to his Beverly Hills mansion –
blows his brains out with a 38 special.

I must have dozed off,
cops at my door,
a line of chain-smoking flashbulbs
in baggy turn-ups.
I watch m...
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Categories: spliced, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHard Road To Easyville - Baron of Tunnel Hill

...I sat on the beach sifting time through my hands.
I felt like a slot machine whore.
The ocean was preaching her Siren’s demand
I abandon my past at the shore.
So, I shook off the sand, turned my ...
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Categories: spliced, allegory, home,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberHere the Bluejay

...Here the Bluejay***

Here!  Here!  …These tall,
Spindly stalks, although sweetly 
JGreen, with their crowns bobbing
In the touches of air…the Cosmos
   Flowers wait…
For their rippling nocturn...
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Categories: spliced, bird, blue, flower, nature,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberA Spring Mix

...In early spring some days are cold, 
for winter’s loath to break its hold, 
still sending winds that bite and sting. 
Some days are cold in early spring.

Sing, one and all, to welcome the uniqu...
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Categories: spliced, spring,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberPassion Spliced

...Scribo wished for a limerick

but then he crushed his writing stick

too much hard reason

ink went for treason

rhymes and rhythm became quite sick


with a bent nib in his firm grasp

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Categories: spliced, emotions,
Form: Limerick

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