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POEM: What Counts

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Top Pun

What Counts I was deeply engrossed A dozin’ dozin’ times over Rapt up In what counts When near buy A poaching me Sum numb-er crunchers Such shadowy figures Their own Singing appraise What counts What lords Baron down on me … Continue reading →

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POEM: Rabbit Whole

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Top Pun

As the greatly underappreciated theologian Elmer Fudd so eloquently stated, “I’ve gone down the wascally wabbit whole.” Rabbit Whole God is a rascally rabbit And I AM Down with that whole Saved by a hare Like the heir I breathe … Continue reading →

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POEM: Sing Sing Birds Uncaged

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Top Pun

An early Sunday morning poem that didn’t exist an hour ago…yet has existed since the beginning of time… Sing Sing Birds Uncaged Sing birds At the end of night At the brake of daze And drowsy dreams A language few … Continue reading →

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POEM: Jeff Bezos Wedding Abet

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Top Pun

Poetry has been shorted. Jeff Bezos Wedding Abet Celebrities descend Up on Venice This is not a poem

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POEM: Abysmal Futures

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Top Pun

Rise up! Let us meet hate with love, violence with nonviolent resistance, austerity with bold generosity, divisive demagoguery with unbroken solidarity. Let’s dig deep… Abysmal Futures Construction is up In those special places In hell But for the time being … Continue reading →

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POEM: Political Hotdogging

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Top Pun

Grifting demagogues like Donald Trump assume that they can bloviate, bluff and bully out of any situation. This is the junk food of politics… Political Hotdogging There is no topping Their political hotdogging Their soul relish Nixin’ constitutional muster Foreswearing … Continue reading →

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POEM: Is It A Bout Time?

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Top Pun

Time for a poem about time… Is It A Bout Time? Tic tock Tic tock Until only a tic Or only a tock Ticking the tic Tocking the tock Weather faster Or slower Weather minute minutes Or magic moments Daze … Continue reading →

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POEM: Mission Creep

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Top Pun

Character is destiny. Donald Trump is a bully threw and threw. He is the mission creep. Mission Creep From his political berth Down with The escalator of hate A crooked real state barren Suffering from a military-industrial complex Making questionable … Continue reading →

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POEM: Hear, We Go

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Top Pun

As peace through strength breaks out in the middle east, here is a poem about the seemingly inexorable escalation of war: Hear, We Go Strongmen every war A ledge Peace threw Strength Braking out In the middle east Yet another … Continue reading →

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POEM: How Ever War is Borne

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Top Pun

I wrote this anti-war poem quite a while ago. Unfortunately, hour capacity to ignore timeless wisdom is leading US to hellish foolishness wince again… How Ever War is Borne No won ever Reckons the lies From wince War is begat … Continue reading →

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POEM: I Lived To

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Top Pun

What is it, that you live? What due you live for? I Lived To I lived to fight another day I lived to fight another I lived to fight I lived to I lived I I I I lived I … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Violence Sandwich

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Top Pun

Here is a poem for awe of you vegan peacemakers… A Violence Sandwich Man Trying Too fill That empty whole Of living buy Bred alone Slys of life Dead meet A taste fore flesh Curdled mother’s milk Of some other … Continue reading →

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POEM: Last Words

Posted on June 19, 2025 by Top Pun

May hauntingly beautiful souls possess you… Last Words When I Am long gone Long past Whatever seeing Is present Eye hope To haunt you In the most beautiful way Taking leave of grass And longing of eternity Taking whole of … Continue reading →

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POEM: Gee I’m a Tree, More or Less

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Top Pun

A little soul geometry for the journey… Gee I’m a Tree, More or Less Twenty questions begin with three Mineral? Plant? Animal? Or fore Bigger than a bred box? Sow what Is the point Just two points is a lyin’ … Continue reading →

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POEM: Death Throws

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Top Pun

Death throws its ugly efface in hour direction with unending chaos, violence and destruction. People of good will, lovers of life, let’s not fall for the barrage of sucker punches… Death Throws It looks as if It’s just Equal Opposite … Continue reading →

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POEM: Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Top Pun

The spirit is elusive…delightfully elusive… Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit My relationship with God Closer than kin be Defies any yarn of this knit wit Seaming beyond owed fashion And awe ways wanting amor Is clothes enough And … Continue reading →

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POEM: Right What You No

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Top Pun

Right What You No I rebel There for I am Author in life More than won in many As biographic all To be penned At the hand of some Wholly ghostwriter As if Roughly drafted To be Seeking only that … Continue reading →

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POEM: Bright Red Lyin’

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Top Pun

Suppression of first amendment rights is marching on domestically, while the middle east is racing to war, cheered on by Donald Trump. Bright Red Lyin’ There is blue There is red Partisans of many stripes Yet agin There is a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Rights in LA LA Land

Posted on June 11, 2025 by Top Pun

A poem about the “riots” in LA. Rights in LA LA Land If you give Rights to won group Soon you have to give Rights to everyone Propagating like weeds And right now There are rights in LA Not sow … Continue reading →

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POEM: Marriage of a Saint

Posted on June 10, 2025 by Top Pun

Below is an ekphratic poem (a poem written about a piece of art) of one of my favorite  funny/ironic paintings at the Toledo Museum of Art. The painting is titled, “The Marriage of a Saint.” It looks like a shotgun … Continue reading →

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