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POEM: Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Top Pun

The spirit is elusive…delightfully elusive… Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit My relationship with God Closer than kin be Defies any yarn of this knit wit Seaming beyond owed fashion And awe ways wanting amor Is clothes enough And … Continue reading →

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POEM: Leather Bound

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Top Pun

For me, writing poetry is a fearless and irreverent process, ever recognizing that irreverence can be the highest form of reverence. The words left on a page are mere soul droppings. A collection of such droppings of skewered sacred cows … Continue reading →

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POEM: On the Order of 126 Lost Poems

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Top Pun

A while back, I discovered that I had “misplaced,” lost track of 126 poems in my 500-page working poem file that is filled with unfinished poems, “uncollected poems” that I haven’t yet published in my annual-ish printed collection for my … Continue reading →

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POEM: It’s Awe in the Shoulder

Posted on June 1, 2025 by Top Pun

I love the John Lennon lyric, “Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.” I find that awe the best comes to me when I don’t expect it. Expect to be surprised! This poem expresses … Continue reading →

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POEM: Udder Simplicity

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Top Pun

Here is a poem about voluntary simplicity. Poverty is brutal. None the less, seriously leaning into “more for less” can unleash deeper “values.” I have learned to relish having “more time than money” and shedding less satisfying consumer-oriented impulses. I … Continue reading →

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POEM: Crack a Diction

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem is about my beauteous experience writing poetry that most people do not understand or do not have an interest in trying to understand — definitely a diction. Crack a Diction Eye harbor A diction To crack In time … Continue reading →

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POEM: Overdid

Posted on May 20, 2025 by Top Pun

I try to err on the side of hope. Please pardon my enthusiasm. Overdid YES That is true In sum regards I overdid it I certainly hope Sow

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POEM: Acquit My Jōb

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Top Pun

When I quit my “regular” job two decades ago, I totally underestimated the quantum leap in my quality of life. Even with poverty-level earnings for decades, and that first decade with no health insurance, I felt that I won the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Missing an I

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Top Pun

I would love to save the world. Fortunately, this does not depend on me alone. I want to join movements with others who savor justice, joy, and love. Here is a poem on this theme: Missing an I Hear I … Continue reading →

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POEM: F-16

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Top Pun

Sometimes life is a walk in the neighborhood. Sometimes not. F-16 I was strolling in my neighborhood Trying to avoid The usual noise pollution From technological whored A roaring lawnmower hear A gas weed whacker whacking there A whirring leaf … Continue reading →

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POEM: Ambitions Sunk

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Top Pun

This dude abides, as life is awesome and awe full awe of the time. Ambitions Sunk My ambitions are sunk In the firmaments of the universe And whatever verses arise Yea, no madder what versus This whirled stirs Nay, I … Continue reading →

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MEMORIAL POEMS for my mom, Lois Rutt

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Top Pun

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY AWE! My mom, Lois Rutt, died just short of 90-years-old, on September 27, 2022. I wrote a set of 14 poems for her memorial service around the theme of one of her favorite Bible verses: “For now … Continue reading →

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POEM: Weather Sadness or Joy

Posted on May 10, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem extolls the value of feeling deeply, both in sadness and joy. Weather Sadness or Joy I sea In a soul tear The whole whirled And folks in choir Am I Awe right And weather sadness Or joy Such … Continue reading →

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POEM: Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Top Pun

Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode It was plane to sea That he wanted too be Immortal eyes A high And might he quest In Flying hi And lo That mystical soup And what can return Ashore thing … Continue reading →

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POEM: Sow Backwards, NOW WON

Posted on May 4, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem is an ode to my dyslexia and mysticism. I, a scribe, my neurodivergent perspective, naturally playing with dancing words and ideas juxtaposed, as an apt channel for mysticism, a love of mystery and cryptically unfolding life. Sow Backwards, … Continue reading →

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POEM — What Comes: Of Police Helicopters

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem on May Day, 2023, and didn’t publish it online till now. On occasion, I walk or bike across my neighborhood, the Old West End, to sit outside the Toledo Museum of Art, to write a poem … Continue reading →

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POEM: Awe, Led, Goaled

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Top Pun

Writing poetry can be surprising. Awe, Led, Goaled Awe I know is Words are alchemy Turning led to goaled Before I may even no What that is

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POEM: Calling Inaudible

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Top Pun

Here is a playful poem about the silence essential for me being an outspoken, unspoken word artist. Also, this poem teases one of my rare envies, that of having musical talent — which I do not have. Calling Inaudible If … Continue reading →

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POEM: That’s Wearing on a Poet’s Life

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Top Pun

Poets are famously unread. Me even more sow. That’s Wearing on a Poet’s Life How trying Too due the impossible Mirrorly transcribing Words of God In some unspeakable language As indecipherable a diction Cloak a verse Abetting my hide On … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugh-ly

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Top Pun

Welcome to the free verse. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugh-ly The good news My poetry can’t be bought And I can’t be sold out More sow it’s awe free And presently The bad news It’s worth every penny … Continue reading →

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