Codons 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
God 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
Padded 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
God 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
The 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
Be 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
Cessation
...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
Hard 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
Here 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
A 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
Passion 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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