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- POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
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- POEM: Fort Knox Elementary
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- POEM: That’s Rich
- POEM: Jackson Pollack Heart Work
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- POEM: Phone Smarts
- PROTEST –NO DEFENSE OF GENOCIDE — Ohio Air National Guard base
- POEM: A Posit of Treasured
- Talk of Freedom
- POEM: “Kids these daze” – Mother Earth
- POEM: Unschooled Shootings
- POEM: Canary in a Coal Mine
- POEM: I’m Mortal Hope
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- POEM: Down With Shutting Up
- POEM: If Only a Poem
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Category Archives: Peace
POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s “de-escalation through escalation.” Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war. Needle-less to Say: … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Culture, Israel, Nonviolence, Violence, War
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POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
The warring mob bosses speak with murderous necessity about “my enemy made me do it.” A ledged human freedom is disappeared. An even more assure bet is that the mob bosses are, oddly, never out of whack. So, if you … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Enemies, Freedom, Sleep
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POEM: Brand Knew
Every war starts with something to the effect of: “This is a new kind of war, a new kind of enemy that we have never seen before.” Spoiler alert: war is the same owed shit recycled. Anew kind, of war, … Continue reading
POEM: Fort Knox Elementary
JD Vance at the Vice Presidential debate became the latest exemplar of the hollow response to school shootings, offering thoughts and preyers, and fortresses, and nothing else in between — except offering up our children to gun terror. This poem … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, God, Guns, Kids, Silence
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POEM: Phone Smarts
Cell phones, so-called “smart” phones, seem to have wraith-like abilities, sucking the life out of us. I yearn for peace and quiet, and these beeping devices grab hour, a tension. This poem is owed, to such a diction… Phone Smarts … Continue reading
PROTEST –NO DEFENSE OF GENOCIDE — Ohio Air National Guard base
On Tuesday, September 10, 2024, Veterans for Peace and the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition held a protest against U.S. support and complicity in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. We stopped entrance to the gate of the 180th Fighter Wing … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Political Action
Tagged Defense, Genocide, National, Protests, Veterans
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POEM: Unschooled Shootings
Georgia on my mind. Unschooled Shootings As law abiding sits in trouble An other School shooting A nation whys The soul thing That stops A bad man With a gun More often then not Is a body politic Riddled with … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Holy, Law, Mind, Soul
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POEM: Knows Helled
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
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action
Tagged Evil, Genocide, Hell, Mourning, Necessary Evil, Political, Present
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POEM: Down With Shutting Up
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
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Genocide, Hell, National
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POEM: Wanting to Say My Peace
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
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Donald Trump, Fear, Genocide, Partisan, Protesters, Silence
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POEM: Owed to Muhammad Ali
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
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Conundrum, Creativity, Heart, History, Life, Poet, Poetry, Prophet, Religion, Time, Transcendent
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POEM: Outer and Inner Space
There is beauty know wear and every wear, awe at once. Outer and Inner Space I am in space Beautiful and mysterious A timeless see Beyond words I hear Only the breath of God And in the twinkle of an … Continue reading
POEM: Living Bye The Sword
This poem is won version of the hippie oath: There is no peace, peace is the way – A. J. Muste. Of course, as Buddha said: If you want to live, don’t follow me.” [slight paraphrase] Living Bye The Sword … Continue reading
POEM: Father Violence
In the wake of the Trump assassination tempt, a time to examine whatever flavor of violence we might, find attractive. Father Violence Search your heart America I am your father Slamming shots Wile preying for won’s enemies Something something is … Continue reading
POEM: US Verses Wee
We live in a world with far too much “US versus THEM.” Partisanship and division reign chaos. Tribalism breeds violence. This poem wakes to a different dream… US Verses Wee Won quiet mourning I awoke There was no US Every … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Chaos, Dream, Mourning, Partisan, Partisanship, Violence
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POEM: Our Fear Less Leader
If aiding and abetting genocide does not make you unfit for the highest public office, then I don’t know what would. I am sick and tired of being told we have to vote for the least totally unfit candidate for … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Children, Citizens, Fear, Genocide, Holy, Humanity, Injustice, Law, Palestinian, Proprietary, Time
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POEM: People of Consequence
Our actions have consequences. We are people of consequence. The ends are determined by the means. Unfortunately, the inanity in our culture, which may, much of the time, seem harmless in it meaninglessness, meets up with epic crimes against humanity. … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Death, Genocide, Heart, Humanity, Inane, Time
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POEM: Heir Droppings
This poem goes out to the five Palestinian kids killed when an American airdrop of food crushed them after the parachute failed. This over the top “Operation Breadcrumb” does nothing to stop Israel’s illegal blocking of humanitarian aid by ground … Continue reading
POEM: Untouchable
This poem reflects on the divide between masculine and feminine ways of being in the world. One of the most stark examples is “incels” who are involuntarily celibate, often because they have a palpable misogyny that women find unattractive. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Hypermasculinity, Irony, Misogyny, Women
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POEM: An Eve with Netanyahu
As President Biden campaigns on a pro-democracy platform against the corrupt Donald Trump, he is tag teaming genocide in Gaza with his long-time friend, the corrupt Israeli PM Netanyahu, the “Bibi” brain and heart of the military onslaught and deadly … Continue reading