Tag Archives: Awe

POEM: The Weigh Forward

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is about moving forward into the future, looking up, not looking down, living holistically, not partial to tribalism. The Weigh Forward Awe ways ahead Sum times behind Never beneath As earth is before me I may know What … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Incalculable Weighs to Prey

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem ponders the fact that hardships and trauma can lead people away from religious and spiritual seekings as well as leading them to such seeking. I find that while darkness can be powerful, even overwhelming, light has a way … Continue reading →

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POEM: Knot The One in Red

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Top Pun

According to family lore, when I was a very young child, I gave my toys away to other children. While this may have been a good way to make friends, I suspect that it was an early sign of me … Continue reading →

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POEM: My Mine Racing

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is about slowing down that racing mind and mining that quiet repose and relaxed contemplation. My Mine Racing Oh my My My mine Raced From that first Slap On the bottom Lyin’ Welcome too A whirled Up side … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Run Down on Lifting Up

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a call to avoid running down those who seek to lift up. The poem has a tip of the hat to Dorothy Day and her infamous quote, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be … Continue reading →

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POEM: Box Set

Posted on January 24, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem ponders the boxes that we put one another in, weather conservative or liberal, and how money and our own interests get in the weigh of our shared humanity. May we think outside our boxes and always put humanity … Continue reading →

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POEM: From God Slips To My Years

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is yet another poem about the experience of writing poems, or transcribing them from a muse. From God Slips To My Years In what manor May we discuss the whether A poet or a stenographer In plaque-able quest in … Continue reading →

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POEM: Taking Auction

Posted on January 20, 2024 by Top Pun

I’ve been no’in to say, “If you are going to sell your soul, make sure you get a good price.” There are people of auction. There are people of action. Be the latter, taking us to a higher place. Taking … Continue reading →

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POEM: You Are Not a Loan

Posted on January 17, 2024 by Top Pun

A poem for those who have crushing student loan debt… You Are Not a Loan Do the bankers still have a crush on you Even after having Taken you To school Bank rolling The best daze of your life Only … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dammed Hope

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem employs a metaphor of a remote mountain lake brimming with hope, exasperatingly difficult to access, only to be topped with an even more secluded mountain valley hiding away awe of the lost senses of humor of uncounted folks. … Continue reading →

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POEM: That Leader Ship

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem during the last Trump administration, of which I work and pray will be the last Trump administration. That Leader Ship What if Everybody Did that Wading among prophetless idles Spinning their wills Ennui go But how … Continue reading →

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POEM: Falling for It — Coming Down to Munch Time, “The Scream”

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Top Pun

There is a Buddhist metaphor for life, that we are in a freefall from a cliff, and that learning to relax during this freefall is the key to life. I am not one much attracted rollercoasters and the like, but … Continue reading →

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POEM: Opportunity Accost [Number Two]

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Top Pun

I am an idealist. I see huge swathes of unfulfilled potential. I am confronted with an endless stream of possibilities — how beautiful. I recognize that most of the everyday whirled is ensconced in navigating probabilities — how practical. Still, … Continue reading →

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POEM: Just Nation

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem reflects my yearning for a nation that gladly welcomes refugees and immigrants. Just Nation Fore awe of US Who halve a dream In this peculiar whirled Of death and extortion Of making a killing To welcome refugees As … Continue reading →

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POEM: Anew Year

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Top Pun

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Anew Year Father time Mother patience Bring it on Anew year Out with the owed Be gone with grudges And woe to overdo In with the knew Refreshing awe that hold dear Embracing fully that near And … Continue reading →

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POEM: Awe Consuming Grief

Posted on December 29, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about grief as a universal facet of the human condition. This poem is inspired by a Buddhist parable. Awe Consuming Grief She suffered In this whirled Of sow much grief Awe consuming She wanted To call upon … Continue reading →

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POEM: Drowning in Technological Solutions — Owed to Novelty and Debt

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Top Pun

I strongly suspect that our impulse to seek technological solutions to virtually every human problem in lieu of applying ancient wisdom acquired through millennia of human experience will be our undoing. This is worsened by our apparent addiction to manufactured … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Kick in Arrears

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Top Pun

There is a high accost to selling your soul. But, if you are going to sell your soul, make sure to get a high price. Nonetheless, playing such a game is costly to won and awe — and some debts … Continue reading →

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POEM: Holy Enough

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Top Pun

This a poem about not being perfect but being perfectly enough. Holy Enough It is hard to brake illusions Yet I smashed this one with ease The illusion of me being holy Evident to awe around me And especially sow … Continue reading →

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POEM: Still Quiet Powerful

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem captures a funny perspective that I have on atheists. I definitely feel for people with agnostic perspectives; though I see it as a bit indecisive. On the other hand, I see atheists as carrying their certainty a bit … Continue reading →

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