Vicksburg Poems - Poems about Vicksburg

... Author’s note: The following is in haibun form—poetic prose (microfiction with less than 200 words in this case) coupled with a haiku. It was written in response to a writing prompt to (re)tell......Read the rest...

...Quantum Acts of Kindness By Mark D. Stucky Our universe collectively consists of tiny acts, as innumerable particles in indeterminate positions ......Read the rest...

...(See the haiku text embedded in the image above. For a high resolution image, see cinemaspirit.info/heaven/.)* Haiga for the Heavenbound By Mark D. Stucky...Read the rest...

...(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race for billionaires.) Races By ......Read the rest...

... Broken Beauty By Mark D. Stucky Glamour is a hollow, shiny shell, a rapid, pretty paint job on an insubstantial surface, that alluringly promises much but never sati......Read the rest...

...Consider the (Dreaming) Birds By Mark D. Stucky Jesus told us to consider the birds of the air. I have pondered parakeets (budgies) in a cage routinely performing what s......Read the rest...

...Acoustic shadows haunted hills and crawled within a sleepless cave where peace was whispered in a wish and silence was an endless prayer. The sound of tears dripped in the wind that carried din......Read the rest...

...SS SULTANA Boiler, or bomb, the Sultana sank on April 27, eighteen sixty five Taking down with her, a good rounded off number of 1,800 lives Carrying Union soldiers, who were ex-prisoners of ......Read the rest...

...Leaving the War Behind for Elihu Burritt, peacemaker The cannon thundered in the South, And with the sound The carols drowned Of peace on earth, good-will to men! - H. W. Longfellow, “C......Read the rest...

...The haunting strains of "Ashokan Farewell" keep racing thro' my brain. 'Tis a fitting requiem for those who bore the agonizing pain, Of bidding a sad farewell at many a humble cabin door, As young......Read the rest...

...1860, is the date we start Secession in question, this Slavery art The Blue and the Grey about to differ This growing giant about to shiver. April 12th 1861, inevitably the fire of a gun Fort ......Read the rest...