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Love Sciences

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Love Sciences

By Mark D. Stucky
If romantic love requires “chemistry,”
how elemental for love is physics?
Negative and positive charges
lustfully attract one another....

Categories: vicksburg, emotions, feelings, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Journey of a Contemporary Joseph

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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...

Categories: vicksburg, christmas, family, immigration, jesus,
Form: Haibun

Quantum Acts of Kindness

...Quantum Acts of Kindness

By Mark D. Stucky
Our universe collectively consists of tiny acts,
        as innumerable particles
        in indeterminate positions
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Categories: vicksburg, friendship, god, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Haiga for the Heavenbound

...(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

Categories: vicksburg, faith, heaven, hope, inspirational,
Form: Haiku

Races

...(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 ...

Categories: vicksburg, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse

Broken Beauty

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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...

Categories: vicksburg, beauty, body, clothes, fashion,
Form: Free verse

Consider the Dreaming Birds

...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...

Categories: vicksburg, christian, dream, inspirational, mystery,
Form: Free verse

The Siege of Vicksburg

...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...

Categories: vicksburg, war,
Form: Free verse

SS Sultana

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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 war, up nort...

Categories: vicksburg, betrayal, boat, history, lost,
Form: Couplet

Leaving the War Behind

...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...

Categories: vicksburg, historywar, peace, peace, war,
Form: Verse

Ashokan Farewell

...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...

Categories: vicksburg, poetry, sad, time,
Form: Rhyme

The Blue and the Grey

...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 ...

Categories: vicksburg, angst, black african american,
Form: Rhyme