Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: Getting Off

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is meditation and commentary on the all-too-common chasm between legality and morality. Personally, I get off on morality, not legality… Getting Off Getting off On a technicality Beating off Their own rules Hardly A consummate victory Knot So … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Largesse He Could Conceive

Posted on October 6, 2023 by Top Pun

Throughout human history, people have travelled great journeys seeking their fortune or fare share of fame. Modern families often spread out out across the country following jobs and careers, and the proverbial better life. These things all have there place, … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Bout Time

Posted on October 5, 2023 by Top Pun

A common complaint is that there is never enough time. Overbooking ourselves seems endemic. I have made an intentional effort over my life to create some space and time, allowing me to lead a less hurried and less forced life. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Retort #112

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Top Pun

I suspect that if you don’t see someone as eccentric, perhaps living in a wondrous crucible brimming with contradictions, then you don’t really know someone. People, as inconvenient as they may be, are irreducibly wondrous creatures. I suspect that most … Continue reading →

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POEM: On Acid

Posted on October 3, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a playful, satirical takedown of the unromantic notion of sexual activity, particularly reproduction, as some Darwinian imperative. I am a romantic who believes that there is more than mere chemistry to human relationships and mating. On Acid … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Hypocrites Oath

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a parody of the “Hippocratic Oath,” an early version of medical ethics best known for its precept of “do no harm.” Of course, American health care is a minefield of doing harm, adept at both undertreatment and … Continue reading →

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POEM: Meaning Less Star Dust

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Top Pun

I have always found it odd that people can view themselves as just complicated dirt, even awesomely poetically as stardust. I suspected that even having a bad attitude about one’s existence as a subject (not object) may very well be … Continue reading →

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POEM — Bought Ensouled: Owed To Corporate Personhood

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Top Pun

Corporate personhood is a scam, edging out actual human persons. Many corporate souls are filed in bank vaults in Delaware, a safe house for corporate persons…and having official papers they feel free to take a dump on actual persons. Who … Continue reading →

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POEM: Alarm Going Off

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Top Pun

I see one of the pervasive everyday forms of violence in capitalism is having to wake up to alarm “normally.” I have no problem being woke, just not by alarms. I believe that luxuriating in the natural process of waking … Continue reading →

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POEM: Sisyphus Shrugged

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a parody of the libertarian bible, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, where rugged (read “ruthless”) individualism in service of economic wealth and power is lauded above all else. Sisyphus Shrugged Ann ran In the company of train wrecks … Continue reading →

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POEM: Unentitled Ekphrasis 247

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Top Pun

Ekphrasis is a description of a work of visual art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise. This ekphratic poem is about the classically unassuming (“unentitled”) still life painting of a bowl of fruit. Since this type of painting is … Continue reading →

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POEM: Flame In The Darkness

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Top Pun

Hope springs eternal. That’s just, the way it glows. Flame In The Darkness There is a flame In the darkness Awe weighs more Than mirror fact This flame is both Before and after See change As one Better Than book … Continue reading →

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POEM: Who’s Your Itch Now?

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Top Pun

On the recurring rashes of moral bankruptcy… Who’s Your Itch Now? There has been a rash Of moral bankruptcy And what do we fine? A society where immorality As a madder of fact Gets Rewarded And reworded Not so much … Continue reading →

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POEM: Gratuitous Rumor

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Top Pun

On rumors of angels… Gratuitous Rumor There is a rumor That she is an angel In disguise I know this is untrue For if it is true It’s the worst disguise ever

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POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Top Pun

Violence often seems to be second nature, obvious or inescapable. Perhaps violence is inescapable because it begets itself, setting up new rounds of consequences where further violence begs further violence. Violence begetting itself may just be the manifestation of the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Straight Manly Complaining

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Top Pun

Straight men are the primary perpetrators of homophobia. Straight men also drive the patriarchal and misogynist culture where women are subject (and object!) of the male gaze. This poem plays with these realities as a straight man gets a taste … Continue reading →

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POEM: Draft Registration Civil Disobedience, aka, Holy Obedience

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a poetic excerpt of my David and Goliath battle with the world’s most powerful superpower. Actually, Daniel in the lions’ den is more on mark. My refusal to register for the military draft back in the 1980’s … Continue reading →

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POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Top Pun

Occam’s Razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. This funny and tragic poem is a parody of the misuse of the principle of Occam’s Razor to over-simplify and round … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Cain Due Attitude

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a metaphor for the natural consequences of bulling through natural limits  on planet earth, our one home. This poem is yet another existential plea for ledged humanity to step away from the cliff. This poem poses the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Conversion Raiding

Posted on September 17, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem contrasts two opposing world views, moral versus amoral, right versus might, serving God versus money, etc., etc. This poem presents the question of how won might convert the currency of one world view to the other. Of coarse, … Continue reading →

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