Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: Monkey Business

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Top Pun

Letting go and getting on with the good life, that bye the weigh which is not hanging on to wealth, power, and status. Monkey Business “To trap a monkey relies on its clenched fist, unwilling to let go.” It was … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Poet’s Currency

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Top Pun

Poet versus economist: A Poet’s Currency ARE YOU A CAPITALIST? no i am more a kin to that econ amissed e e cummings In case you didn’t know, E. E. Cummings was a poet who often broke the rules of … Continue reading →

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POEM: Love Birds

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Top Pun

Back to nature. Forward to nature. Love Birds His life peered As an empty field Soully a tree Stray flowers A pair of birds Blades of grasses Up on closer inspection Colonies of bugs A myriad of life On the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late

Posted on October 5, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Brand Knew

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Fort Knox Elementary

Posted on October 2, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Unfrock The World

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Top Pun

With this poem, I inaugurate won of my many titles: “The most write irreverend.” Unfrock The World I slammed it Hearty har hard In fool reveres Being soully in titled The most write irreverend Fore awe Who will hear The … Continue reading →

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POEM: De-construction Jobs

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to those lives and communities where climate disasters wreak havoc, especially those suffering in the chasm between those who have the wherewithal to recover and those who don’t. May we be good neighbors to each other … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Bit Touched

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Top Pun

Some people claim that people who are a bit disturbed are more creative. This may be true. Surly, I am a bit touched…as this poem would have it. A Bit Touched I was a bit down Taking me To the … Continue reading →

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POEM: That’s Rich

Posted on September 27, 2024 by Top Pun

Most rich people consider themselves just, comfortable. My favorite dialogue from the movie, Crazy Rich Asians: Rachel Chu: “So your family is, like, rich?” Nick Young: “We’re comfortable.” Rachel Chu: “That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.” That’s … Continue reading →

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POEM: Jackson Pollack Heart Work

Posted on September 26, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem was inspired by the image of my heart exploding and the splatter creating an unfathomable work of heart on any walls closing in on me. Jackson Pollack Heart Work I was cornered Awe round me I temped too … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Man of Promise

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Top Pun

A poem of what is owed, what is the present, and what is yet to come… A Man of Promise “What is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love mercy, and to walk … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Salt & Battery

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a meditation on that sense of being positively negative. There is something electric between positivity and negativity. I am a salt of the earth kind of guy, a dude abiding, and yet some people don’t take kindly … Continue reading →

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POEM: Phone Smarts

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: A Posit of Treasured

Posted on September 7, 2024 by Top Pun

A poem to our penchant for extractive industries despoiling Mother Earth. A Posit of Treasured In our lust For lustrous alchemy And unsatiable technowizardry We dug with such graveness Nothing could scar us out of our mine We combed over … Continue reading →

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Talk of Freedom

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Top Pun

A lot of talk about freedom — less walking the walk. A lot of talk about grievance — less sacrificial action. Talk of Freedom Freedom Freedom Awe the talk today And the lessen of walk I am Not free And … Continue reading →

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POEM: “Kids these daze” – Mother Earth

Posted on September 5, 2024 by Top Pun

A bit of wisdom: listen to your momma. “Kids these daze” – Mother Earth Pardon Dying Too ax How due You No Your mama Accept as A consume her Living as if theirs No tomorrow

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POEM: Unschooled Shootings

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Canary in a Coal Mine

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Top Pun

Canaries were used in coal mines as an early detection system for toxic gasses. Canaries are particularly susceptible to methane and carbon monoxide. Canaries will get sick or die before it affects humans, miners. Still, the miners have to respect … Continue reading →

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