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POEM: They Did What?

Posted on January 8, 2026 by Top Pun

Fascism needs to be resisted anywhere and everywhere it rears its ugly head. This poem goes out to all who resist fascism in big ways and small every day… They Did What? [Mother and son standing beneath six townspeople hung … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Prize Worth Pain For

Posted on January 7, 2026 by Top Pun

One translation of the Buddhist great truth that “life is suffering” is actually “life is work,” simply meaning that life keeps requiring effort on our part… A Prize Worth Pain For Awe great faiths re-choir work. Their life kept Culling … Continue reading →

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POEM: Character Trumps

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Top Pun

MAGA should no by now that Trump is a character of lack he… Character Trumps Oh God His character Out of Whack! He’s a hit Those with violent tendons see His Achille’s Heeling Of the whirled And the soul remains … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Peace of Me

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Top Pun

Are you war out? A Peace of Me I am a citizen Of this planet Awe too familiar With its billion boarders Among condemn nations No’ing what madders Helled sow true A mist means And ends I don’t do war … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Kinds of Reality

Posted on December 25, 2025 by Top Pun

The subjective aspect of life is determining. I can look at any given reality, or a reality forced upon me, depending how I look at it, and see something very different depending on my attitude and perspective. I strive for … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Ultimate Subversive Force

Posted on December 24, 2025 by Top Pun

A poem about love versus fear and subjugation… The Ultimate Subversive Force Bigger than me Bigger than you Bigger than our enemies The largesse of awe Making us Gloriously beggar Then we can imagine Effacing loss As due without Domination … Continue reading →

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POEM: Amor Guns, Then People

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Top Pun

The United States is the only country in the world with more guns than people. Feel free, too take a shot, at why we have the highest rate of mass murder events… Amor Guns, Then People Schooled in another mass … Continue reading →

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POEM: Roughly, The Sighs of a Heart

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem is a bout that dance between empathy and enraging injustices… Roughly, The Sighs of a Heart “The human heart is some wear around the size of a fist.” The other Day I saw A gripping tale Of a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Book Ends

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Top Pun

Life has boundaries. May we respect those boundaries… Book Ends We live Fore the time being In a whirled Sow illiterate That disrespects The bookends of life The sacred nest Of awe human life And the reverence Of Mother Earth … Continue reading →

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POEM: That Vast Nest of Inner Space

Posted on November 22, 2025 by Top Pun

There is a cosmos inside of us, just as import to the cosmos around us… That Vast Nest of Inner Space Let me Way in On this microcosmic scale That vast nest of inner space As more sow A dream … Continue reading →

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POEMS: God Rains on The Just and The Unjust

Posted on November 19, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem is about hubris, specifically that dividing lyin’ between our powerful tendency to favor our own interests, subjective or not, over others who are often reduced to means toward ends, without equal favor. I find the axiom that God … Continue reading →

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POEM: Undergound Man

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Top Pun

Much of the life of a plant goes on unseen under ground in the root system. I suspect that most of the good work in humanity happens largely out of sight… Undergound Man Won might not see me As I … Continue reading →

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POEM: Desperation Not Suiting

Posted on November 15, 2025 by Top Pun

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it is desperation… Desperation Not Suiting Weave awe confronted Hopelessness looming When hour best is dammed fear A posit of faith Mortifyingly making degrade My basis uncovered As sensitive embody ensoul As lonely … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Shape of Water

Posted on November 14, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem is a meditation on life being a fluid situation… The Shape of Water It was a fluid situation Matched soully bye That mettle Ground Staring at his naval He was blind at see Taking on water Flailing a … 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: Who Owns the Right

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Top Pun

Who Owns the Right They had Made up They’re own That they were Right Aggrieved of whatever left Snowflakes In the winter of their discontent Too educated Fore their own Good as radical terrorists Hardened criminals Or God verboten anti-fascists … 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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