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POEM: Reckon Knot

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Top Pun

This world is a mournful place. I hope I bring to this life more laughing than crying. Reckon Knot I laugh I cry I laugh To keep from crying Still I cry As I am Awe ready Moved to laugh … Continue reading →

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POEM: Straddling Two Realms

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Top Pun

I am an infinitely bigger fan of possibilities than probabilities. Possibilities change the trajectory of what is; all else is mere calculation. Straddling Two Realms He ate possibilities for breakfast Awe ways Kneading more room And inevitable movements He straddled … Continue reading →

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POEM: Re-Nouned

Posted on February 21, 2024 by Top Pun

I am not one for titles and hierarchical living. Of coarse, labels serve some function in relating to one another. Still, I yearn for human relations where titles of status and power do not confound our basic humanity. Thus, this … Continue reading →

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POEM: Doxxed

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Top Pun

My religion is unorthodox, and those orthodox varieties of all sorts find me heretical. Doxxed He was doxxed From the right From the left Catching hell And heaven From both sides Paradoxxed Inscrutably sow In a dyslexic manor E pluribus … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Perfect 11

Posted on February 17, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem channels my inner 11 year old. I am happy to embrace my inner 11 year old as part of who I am. A Perfect 11 It was an emotional age Living in that boy hood And now Just … Continue reading →

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POEM: Chaste Tree

Posted on February 15, 2024 by Top Pun

I can’t help but chuckle and shake my head on many a daze as I observe folks chasing sparkly objects with such apparent vigor. I can’t help but peer as a fool myself, where my attention is rapt, as you … Continue reading →

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POEM: Courting Pro Bait

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Top Pun

I am a sojourner in this world — just, passing through, paying it forward. I’d rather give everything I got than sell anything. Those with heirs can sort that shit out… Courting Pro Bait I have no will Of my … Continue reading →

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POEM: Life Keeps

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Top Pun

I find comfort in the persistent reality that life keeps happening. As I keep learning to let go, I find that life flows more gently to whatever the next thing is that life offers up. I continue to be amazed … 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: Underemployed

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Top Pun

If you find me loitering around my sweetheart, be mindful that I am working… Underemployed And you are who? Oh, I am just Here to kiss her Now and again Threw out our daze Sow that She knows She is … 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: Poetry Bombs in the Hows

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Top Pun

The muse is the bomb, dropping poetry bombs, as she wishes. Poetry Bombs in the Hows My crib is in The neighborhood of a muse Reigning over me Poetry bombs In a hood next to no wear A boarder Across … Continue reading →

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POEM: Trump Blows (into town)

Posted on January 10, 2024 by Top Pun

I’m posting this poem in honor of the upcoming Republican primaries. I actually wrote this poem years ago when Trump came to Toledo for a campaign stop. My experience there adds a layer to this poem. The attendees of the … 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: High Level of Confidants

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Top Pun

A poem about an angelic visitation, in honor of Christmas day — comfortably unbelievable. High Level of Confidants I am an angel In disguise Fortunately, I can tell this to you In complete safety Since you will not believe me … Continue reading →

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POEM: God Thirst

Posted on December 24, 2023 by Top Pun

This is a poet’s poem about the ineffable muse and singing her prays. God Thirst He was drunk In poetry An outspoken unspoken word artist And still Imbibe Hymn As well

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POEM: Moved to Adjourn

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Top Pun

I rarely go to meetings anymore, and when I do, the purpose it usually serves is to remind me why I don’t go to meetings. This poem adds another layer that gets at my lifestyle of being deinstitutionalized; that is, … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Queer World

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about the queer reality that if there were not homophobia, I would not have been born, as my Dad is gay. Only the rejection of his sexual orientation and the societal “need” to enter a “heterosexual” marriage … 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: Take a Collective Breath

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a rare combination of my life as a poet and a public health worker. This poem juxtaposes the personal option of some to choose organic food but the collective difficulty of choosing clean air. Some times we … Continue reading →

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