Religious Trust Poems

Dear God, as captain of my life,
You’ve steered me through life’s storms and strife,
And brought me to Port sixty-two,
Despite the stormy winds that blew.

Ere since...

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Soul Fingerprints

By Mark Stucky
From the midst of multitudes,
elusive, unique fingerprints
identify individuals
as owners of their surface smudges.

Beyond their barely discernable
two-dimensions on smooth surfaces,
memories of casual causal...

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Did you see air
 Fragrance, 
 And gravity? 

   Can you claim to see
Love, hate
And disloyalty? 

   Did you see the...

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When I drove away from the family farm
to embrace my freshman year
at the University of Michigan
in Vietnam-era 1970,

I was planning on majoring in political science
which...

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I read in the paper today –
another religious occult.
Oxymoronic term, I thought,
but then don’t each intend to sway
the non-believers to their way?

So which is the...

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Basil the Bogomil and his good friends were preaching the truth in all its light, about Jesus Christ’s mercy in the world’s pitch darkness. Though...

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Within the heart of humankind
the quest for constancy we find.
Like instinct in an animal,
It’s wired in the mind of man.

We do not function very well,
when...

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Tasty democratic roots
are made of trusted vines

Healthy democracy
does not chronically debate
to derail indigenous theocracy
nor diminish pursuit of individual liberty
to co-invest in political
and religious
and sexual powers
of...

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Leather boots 
tight black suits 
skin hot bound 
in knots cutting 
sweet the heat 
Burns in between 
the pleasure 
of the pain 
the sweat 
of...

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First
Earth was spiral dynamic energy,
deep dipolar locations
redefining by sacred re-connecting
reverse synergetic rememory
of time's unfolding
regenerative
positive health intention

Becoming light energy
emergent with deep dualdark
black holy holonic whole
SolarSystemic
synergetic progenitor
integrally...

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"...the ecological crisis is also a summons
to profound [theological] conversion."
           #217, Laudato Si', Pope Francis

Those...

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The Ribbon

The colors in the sky, 
way up high, 
red, and gold and green...
yellow, purple, 
and the unseen. 
Those colors, 
that are outside 
our field...

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First one wave and then another
Tossed the boat from one side then the other
 
 The storm gripped the tiny craft
and the wind pushed the...

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“Coming to heaven who'll be the greatest?”
Jesus held up one of the youngest,
     “Those who can adjust
    ...

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Blessed with wondrous family, an-almost perfect home
having Daddy and Mama so loving among caring siblings 
I’m sufficed well to speak of satisfaction’s abundance…
yet haunted by...

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