Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: Fossil Fools

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to the COP30 climate conference from the mouth of the Amazon about won passable future… Fossil Fools Deep in the future The alien archeologists landed Long after the human raze Was extincting to hi heaven What … 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: Life and Death Import

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Top Pun

I find that the urgent and not sow important often overtake and undertake the less urgent and amor important… Life and Death Import His sway was won of Much urgency and little importance A bit vane Having That inclination down … Continue reading →

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POEM: Beauty Skulks

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Top Pun

Beauty Skulks Beauty skulks a bout Content to live on the fringe Beyond the frayed Gently weaving our story In the margins Not lured buy the bait and switch Of the spot light Rather bathed in that savory light Illuminating … 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: Amoral Architecture

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Top Pun

Yesterday, a group of eight Toledoans met with the staff of Ohio Senator Jon Husted. This visit was a follow-up from a visit last month where we presented several specific questions to be answered in this visit. There were no … Continue reading →

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POEM: Monkey Kings

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem employs an image the pops into my mind concerning our body politic, that is, poop throwing monkeys… Monkey Kings Proud to a fault As they whir Citizens Of sorts abiding In a banana republic Run by poop throne … Continue reading →

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POEM: No Thy Ideology

Posted on November 11, 2025 by Top Pun

I suspect that we are moving into a “black pill” era in America, where deep alienation, learned helplessness, and nihilism corrodes much of ideology of any sort and left-right divides provide less and less explanatory power in our body politic. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Stiffed by Jello™ — Owed to Dem Boners

Posted on November 10, 2025 by Top Pun

The surest abet is congressional Democrats caving… Stiffed by Jello™ — Owed to Dem Boners They went back To what was Their grate-est A word The fallowing mourning To the feeled of battle Soully too learn Their most ghastly lessen … Continue reading →

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POEM: Democratic Liter Ship

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem quite awhile ago, fully expecting that congressional Democrats would cave in as is traditional. The Senate Democrats have caved after shutting down the government for 39 days; and what did they win? Opening the government they … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dealt God’s Hand – Owed to Matthew 6:25-34 [Do not worry]

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Top Pun

Do not worry — look more closely… Dealt God’s Hand – Owed to Matthew 6:25-34 [Do not worry] Toward the end As my life plays Out I might have been Strung long As some dare quest in Sew what Thread … Continue reading →

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POEM: Fare Share

Posted on November 8, 2025 by Top Pun

Life isn’t fair — it’s excellent. Please feel free to share… Fare Share Are you happy With your share There is fair And there is fare Then something amor It is a quest in Of heavenly perspectives And pauper attitudes … Continue reading →

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POEM: Sea Change

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Top Pun

Are you the king (or queen) of your own life? If not, who or what has veto power? This poem is a meditation on being the change you want to see in the world… Sea Change What was he posed … Continue reading →

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POEM: Laugh, Lord

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Top Pun

Holy self-deprecating… Laugh, Lord I was looking At God Straight in the face Soully able to say You made me Laugh, Lord

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POEM: Homeless, Man

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Top Pun

Prophetic words can came from unexpected places… Homeless, Man He sat on a concrete couch Overlooking an asphalt river Its banks colonized With big boxes of all sorts And this specific mourning Passers rush bye Caught up in nothing Resembling … Continue reading →

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POEM: Little Guise

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to the little guys, and gals, and “them”… Little Guise A tension Wee the people Too big to fail Will fail And the heir in this will Oligarchs A bout bailed out By US Wile they … Continue reading →

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POEM: Good God Immigration

Posted on November 2, 2025 by Top Pun

Radical hospitality for immigrants, refugees, and neighbors of all kinds is the 80-ton elephant in the Christian branding of Republican party — and that elephant has forgot something… Good God Immigration “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as … Continue reading →

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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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