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POEM: Dis Quieting Genocide

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Top Pun

Talking about US complicit in genocide may be uncomfortable, even a bit traumatic. Still, such discussions have miniscule chances of approximating the horrors of genocide itself. Dis Quieting Genocide It was a bad day for propriety A revolting day for … Continue reading →

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Stick, A Fork in It

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is about the tendency toward escalation and overkilling built into lethal conflicts such as war or genocide. When we feel threatened and have the capacity to inflict massive death, we come to a fork in the road, which … Continue reading →

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POEM: God’s Preferential Option

Posted on February 25, 2024 by Top Pun

I have learned that an open heart is a broken heart. A common reaction to pain, stress, or trauma is to close down as a defense mechanism. While the world has plenty of pain, stress, and trauma, a healthy response … Continue reading →

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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: Can You Ever Halve Enough?

Posted on February 22, 2024 by Top Pun

Can we ever afford to kill one another? It certainly seems sow. Unfortunately, when an awareness arises of the steep cost of killing, it is often too late. Sadly, we may halve our life and eat it too. Can You … 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: Calling Awe Taxidermists

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Top Pun

I suspect each of us has encountered fakes, stiffs, who too routinely fail to treat others humanely, seemingly deadened by their own, lifeless stuff. Thus, this poem: Calling Awe Taxidermists He was his own Worst faux And stiff Was his … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Weigh of Our Great Grandchildren

Posted on February 19, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem employs the metaphor of using irresponsible and unsustainable credit that must be paid by future generations. Externalizing the true costs from the present sticker price of our way of life by ignoring environmental costs incurred by fossil fuels … 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: Heart Confetti

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Top Pun

My heart breaks, particularly when US cannot brake genocide. Heart Confetti My heart Shatters A billion peaces Shuttered Once helled To gather Now veinly hoping Fore a body politic And singular victory A party to genocide And ticker tape prayed

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POEM: Taking a Bite Out of War Crime

Posted on February 15, 2024 by Top Pun

I am far more worried about Joe Biden’s moral feebleness than I am about any alleged physical or mental feebleness. End the genocide in Gaza! Taking a Bite Out of War Crime Get that man some dentures Grandpa Joe needs … 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: As Humanity Reseeds

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is an apocalyptic valentine, a final kiss planted. As Humanity Reseeds That final mourning We greet With a kiss A poetic rejoinder Transcendent graffiti Write on the apocalypse In a whirled that had Drunk The Kool-Aid® Even at that … 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: The Means

Posted on February 12, 2024 by Top Pun

As commander-in-chief Biden provides unconditional support indispensable to Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza, he offers inconsequential advice, even “warnings,” to limit mass civilian killings. If stopping genocide, the worst crime known to man, is somehow a close call, then his … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dogged Reasoning

Posted on February 11, 2024 by Top Pun

This a poem highlighting the barren view of life that rugged reasoning can impose on the awesome experience of consciousness. Life is much more than sterile propagation of the specious. Dogged Reasoning He wood Knot know Consciousness If he Saw … Continue reading →

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POEM: Heir to a Thousand Generations

Posted on February 10, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is about recognizing and appreciating that we rest on the shoulders of a thousand generations and that each moment can take inspiration from this long arc of our existence, powering us forward in ways worthy of our ancestors. … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Weigh Forward

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is about moving forward into the future, looking up, not looking down, living holistically, not partial to tribalism. The Weigh Forward Awe ways ahead Sum times behind Never beneath As earth is before me I may know What … Continue reading →

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