Prayer Symbolism Poems

Have I not yet awoke,
since last I wandered bare, 
in fields of bergamot and smoke,
and spring morning’s air,
blows a little more brilliant,
holding her prayer,
for my...

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Ice formed in craggy spirals 
Upside down and billowed
on the outstretched arms
of a winter dead willow
still awaiting Spring’s charm

sunlight peered through 
the glistening frozen crystals...

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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...

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Jurassic Prayer

By Mark D. Stucky
We asked our preschooler to pray,
and with dinner plates before us
and our hands folded,
he paused in silence
and then roared in imitation
of...

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In prayer I offer a Rose of Reparation --- to adorn ---
her sorrowful Immaculate Heart, as I remove a thorn...

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"Hiding Philadelphia"

The ground has cracked open 
like an egg, 
the shell scattered 
all about 
the yolk of life
sucked into the rubble 
where a child is...

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So many hurting people, 
Wounded with old hurts and new. 
Blood long dried but never tended, 
What oh what are we to do?

So many displaced...

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Day Dreams

I love to have daydreams, 
about the nighttime. 
I believe I can see it all 
clearer in the light. 
I am not afraid of...

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If I were to make you smile surely a miracle exists right there 
feeling the warm sunshine speaking to a soul  
hearing the first...

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The young must know that they are loved
For there is goodness in every young person
Give me souls--the souls of young people
These boys are not bad,...

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When I see Old Glory wave
  I picture Lady Liberty beckoning
to boatloads of refugees ~
  not cattle rustlers hanging in effigy

When I hear...

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Hay now, now sing this corrosion
Of winter wastes and Red stars white nights

And waring tribes a bully on the block 
To kick you when your...

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The cunningness I feel is near:
It tries coming for a stay
Living within a beast, I once lived in
It's a bit dangerous wanting my play.

I have...

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Cross is the first Christian symbol
of love and salvation.
It’s the Lord’s sacrifice for all,
His precious redemption.

Gestured during prayer
God lifts when we suffer,
Armor of believers.

Cross is...

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Hello, Oblivion am I welcomed to thy realm?
            down into the darkness 
 ...

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