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POEM: Showing Up

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Top Pun

We are each a bit of magic forming the future, a collective world that much better. Showing Up I am Just A walking and talking Peace of meet Know magic To see Hear Awe those who have years Here Show … Continue reading →

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POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is a Halloween poem. This poem is an eerie, haunting meditation on imminent death, specifically, at the hands of a deathly force. For some time, I have had this image of someone taking my life and my last words … Continue reading →

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POEM: Wiled Fires

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Top Pun

Wild fire smoke plumes are still messing up our air quality. Unfortunately, with asthma, I pay a lot of attention to such things. Check out the air quality yourself at: https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Toledo&state=OH&country=USA (set for Toledo). Of course, I have a poem … Continue reading →

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POEM: Love Birds

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Top Pun

Back to nature. Forward to nature. Love Birds His life peered As an empty field Soully a tree Stray flowers A pair of birds Blades of grasses Up on closer inspection Colonies of bugs A myriad of life On the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Unfrock The World

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Top Pun

With this poem, I inaugurate won of my many titles: “The most write irreverend.” Unfrock The World I slammed it Hearty har hard In fool reveres Being soully in titled The most write irreverend Fore awe Who will hear The … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Bit Touched

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Top Pun

Some people claim that people who are a bit disturbed are more creative. This may be true. Surly, I am a bit touched…as this poem would have it. A Bit Touched I was a bit down Taking me To the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Jackson Pollack Heart Work

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem was inspired by the image of my heart exploding and the splatter creating an unfathomable work of heart on any walls closing in on me. Jackson Pollack Heart Work I was cornered Awe round me I temped too … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Man of Promise

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Top Pun

A poem of what is owed, what is the present, and what is yet to come… A Man of Promise “What is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love mercy, and to walk … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Salt & Battery

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a meditation on that sense of being positively negative. There is something electric between positivity and negativity. I am a salt of the earth kind of guy, a dude abiding, and yet some people don’t take kindly … Continue reading →

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POEM: Knows Helled

Posted on August 22, 2024 by Top Pun

Yesterday I was able to protest the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza outside the DNC in Chicago for four hours with thousands of other. Here is a poem to the “conventional” compromised political take that genocide is a necessary evil for … Continue reading →

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POEM: Down With Shutting Up

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Top Pun

Getting ready to protest the U.S.-Israeli genocide at the Chicago Democratic National Convention this week. Never be silent about genocide! Down With Shutting Up Are you down With genocide in Gaza Only Abel to ax What’s up In The hell … Continue reading →

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POEM: Wanting to Say My Peace

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Top Pun

Today, at a Kamala Harris rally, her speech was interrupted by protesters chanting, “Kamala, Kamala you can’t hide! We won’t vote for genocide.” As they persisted, and would not be silenced, candidate Harris said: “You know what? If you want … Continue reading →

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POEM: Owed to Muhammad Ali

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem after watching, again, my favorite documentary of all time: When We Were Kings. This film is about the leadup and spectacle that is known as the “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire, the heavyweight boxing title … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Wake Sleepy Aheads

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to all nonviolent activists, particularly those who struggle with whether they make a difference or not. This poem is also a tip of the hat to this great quote: “If you think you are too small … Continue reading →

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POEM: Snugly Lodged

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Top Pun

In case you were wondering why anxiety and fear sometimes seem to creep up on us humans… Snugly Lodged I was wresting Quiet comfortably In my nice warm bed Pondering the seeming conundrum Of why wee humans are So offed … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Beat of Exclusive Clubs

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Top Pun

Other than for hardcore atheism, my spiritual beliefs ran the gamut, something for everyone. I am a spiritual mutt. Probably the most apt description would be “unorthodox.” I detest fundamentalism. I was raised Christian and spent most of my life … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Head of Belief

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Top Pun

I’ve heard that the longest distance is from the head to the heart. This poem is one take on this. I’ve been known to get stuck in my head, even well-intentioned, disconnected from my heart. A Head of Belief He … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Mirror Student

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Top Pun

Looking at myself seems to be a common denominator in successfully working through interpersonal issues. Reflections from others and the world around me can be very instructive on the nature of my inner life and its knotty workings. Taking care … Continue reading →

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POEM: Job One

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Top Pun

For a job I be looking… Job One My job Is to see you As God sees you Nothing more Nothing less

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POEM: Hope Ungraduated

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Top Pun

This is a poem that plays with the fact that I graduated from Hope College. I have literally graduated from hope! Of course, hope is not simply something that can be metered out in a “graduated” fashion, and neither hoard … Continue reading →

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