Category Archives: Anti-War

POEM: Saddle Light First — Owed to Genocide in Sudan

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem is based on a striking new pinnacle of inhumanity, the first dead bodies and bloody ground seen from satellite — a grave convergence of the indifference of technology and humans. Saddle Light First — Owed to Genocide in … Continue reading →

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POEM: Gaping Whole

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Top Pun

I see nonviolence as a lifelong, life-longing invitation to do better. We can awe ways do better. Of coarse, active nonviolence is risky because the whirled is replete with violence of all sorts: for personal or tribal material gain, for … Continue reading →

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NO KINGS Bike Ride — I AM ANTIFA, Be VERY Unafraid!

Posted on October 19, 2025 by Top Pun

Here are a couple of pictures from my bike ride along the entire NO KINGS protest along miles of Monroe St. in Toledo. I distributed 100+ yellow signs as I greeted the joyful resisters in ANTIFA-land. I AM ANTIFA. I … Continue reading →

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POEM: Put in a Box

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Top Pun

Violence is too hubris-ridden, full of juicy justifications, to not reliably rebound. Nonviolence in response to violence calls for great creativity and courage… Put in a Box We have bin Tolled Over and over agin The soul thing Under stand … Continue reading →

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POEM: Round and Round Squared

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Top Pun

Violence is often a case of they made me, due it… Round and Round Squared Round and round we go Where it doesn’t stop Every won knows The cause And solution Too awe of our problems Violence Lizard brains And … Continue reading →

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POEM: Won Piece Is a Hole

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Top Pun

War is popular mostly because it is simply easier to blow stuff up than build things up… Won Piece Is a Hole They sow covet A piece of the axin’ A common miss take Posing that Reaping peace Can be … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Nothing Special — Owed to What Kin You Do

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Top Pun

We are all kin. What kin you due? The Nothing Special — Owed to What Kin You Do They took Care of their own The giving Nothing special Of average Joe’s Every wear In thin A regular At that owed … Continue reading →

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POEM: Wore In Peace

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Top Pun

War is a terrible way to prepare for peace… Wore In Peace There is allot Of terrible realities in war Won Of the saddest lots Is the unfortunate luck Of being The last casualty This misfortune is Exceeded soully By … Continue reading →

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POEM: Ten U.S. Peace in Middle East

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Top Pun

Here is my poetic take on today’s announcement of a tenuous ceasefire deal: Ten U.S. Peace in Middle East In the daze of deals Superlatives fly Still Gazans killed This day Soully hoping To bare their dead From the rubble … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Violent Conception

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Top Pun

Easy violence is the hardest in the whirled. A Violent Conception As the whirled descended In too violence He helled this conception In his ahead Of adding up To this fall From grays To black and white And read As … Continue reading →

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POEM: Warrin’ Piece – Not the Novel

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Top Pun

Holy imagination, Batman! I found peace. It’s awe ways, the last place you look… Warrin’ Piece – Not the Novel “Hate is the udder lack, of imagination.” There is a piece Incite of him That passeth awe Under standing It’s … Continue reading →

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POEM: Arming Up, Surrendering to What?

Posted on September 26, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem was inspired by a friend, a confirmed liberal, who is considering buying a gun to prepare for a potential civil war. This poem is a meditation on such epic choices. Gandhi viewed cowardice and fear as the real … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Pacifist Incense Ability

Posted on September 25, 2025 by Top Pun

“Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.” –Ammon Hennacy A Pacifist Incense Ability I am too A pacifist She proffered Sow confidently When only a madder of instance later She uddered allowed THIS … Continue reading →

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POEM: Nothing Stranger, Then Enemy

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Top Pun

I find the greatest and most practical challenge, as well as spiritual practice, is to love one’s enemies. I find this challenge as the most mine stretching, art enlarging, and soul in lightning discipline that I have undertaken. In practical … Continue reading →

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POEM: Kill Awe of Them

Posted on September 12, 2025 by Top Pun

You can not kill enough people to end killing… Kill Awe of Them We liquidate awe Our political assets In an awe out tempt To erase our fauxs In a grays free zone Black and white Us or them Never … Continue reading →

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POEM: Fair, Oh, Fare, O Israel

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Top Pun

The state of Israel is masterful at blowing up any peace on the table. This time literally. Having bombed Hamas peace negotiators in Qatar, the world wince agin secures the genocide. The state of Israel serves as the modern pharaoh … Continue reading →

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POEM: Soul Felony Conviction

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Top Pun

Sometimes life calls for convictions… Soul Felony Conviction In my many years Some wear I over herd Oh, he’s a professional peacemaker A paid protester When in truth I am not quiet a pro I am just An ex-con

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POEM: Waist, A Way?

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Top Pun

Anytime a child starves to death it is a catastrophic moral failure of humanity. Feed Gaza. End the genocide. Free Palestine. Waist, A Way? “I’ll say to myself, ‘You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life … Continue reading →

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POEM: Taut a Lessen

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Top Pun

I am a fan of deeply existential questions. If you had to choose, would you rather be the one who threatened others, even to the point of death, into deeply degrading situations, or be the one subjected to such treatment? … Continue reading →

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POEM: Allot of Pacifism

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Top Pun

Allot of Pacifism “It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.” ― Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own “Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.” –Ammon … Continue reading →

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