Religion Travel Poems

How did you become featherless
Angels are always blessed and do bless
Standing too close to the fire
Devil got me in a crossfire
Make sure you always tell...

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I.
We are the
thunder’s call
swathed
under layers of
patina plated
Thessalonian chainmail

II.
Our veins are
cooling springs
that gush with
molten zest,
blood red
Spartan vigor
encased in bronzed
Mediterranean skin

III.
We are an
uncrowned empire,
our kingdom coronated
in pastoral...

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Like emerald pastures
for tarried gazelles,
the shaded monastery
nestled between wedges of
tectonic New World protrusions
was a cathedral for
ecclesiastic contemplation,
an oasis for the
pilgrim explorer
to traverse the tattered
pages of...

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Jericho Roads

By Mark Stucky
At the end of the rock-strewn road,
fell the walls surrounding Jericho.
Spared from destruction,
were a harlot’s people,
the family of Rahab,
Israel’s unlikely ally,
and unlikely...

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I’ve heard tell of some suicide cult in Kenya;
Poor folk pledged to starve themselves to death 
For God’s glory, and so malevolent surgeons 
Can harvest...

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"This is the place." - Joseph Smith
(I'm not endorsing Mormonism, but I was blown away with our Utah visit last year and we'd randomly throw...

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I am almost too excited to sleep
Today Holi started
The Festival of spring, the end of winter
Celebrating the divine love of Radha Krishna
Triumph of good over...

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Beyond this door
lies the regions of anything 
Everything 
and nothing at all 
what is hidden
until it’s time to see what is coming 
and that is...

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Trails of time 
I note the trails sublime
I see them dance around 
my fingers like starlight
arcing in the night 
I intertwine the firelights
dancing around my...

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Today I write just for you                                       ...

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There are many questions in life,                                    but not...

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God
will wait
on this day                     ...

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Will you, won’t you join the dance,
We like to dance here every night,
Moving slowly at the speed of light.
Won’t you give yourself half a chance,
Even...

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Isaiah I Want,                      ...

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Massed crowds of all creeds jostle to enter

Inside cool air and dim light calms the soul

Eyes gaze around this spiritual centre

Built form and faith symbols...

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