Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: A Thousand Poems A Go

Posted on October 16, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is another tip of the hat to the mystical muse that passes down poetry from on high. Poems often strike in the middle of the night or early morn. The hours are odd, but they are integral to … Continue reading →

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POEM: Mine Blowin’

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Top Pun

My mind is blown every time I meditate on the fact that the stuff our bodies are composed of, molecules, are so infinitesimally small that if the molecules contained in a single breath were spread evenly across the planet, then … Continue reading →

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POEM: Blessed Be Our Creator (Not There’s)

Posted on October 14, 2023 by Top Pun

In times of war or national revenge, demonization of one’s foes is standard operating procedure, necessary for justifying mass killing and destruction of civilian infrastructure, let alone civilians. This hole affair is all the more disgusting when it is dressed … Continue reading →

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POEM: Tension All Humans

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Top Pun

If we want to be competent human beings on this planet, a founding document in our education and a basis for our collective life is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Epitaph Numb-er Too

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Top Pun

This short poem, an epitaph, is meant to inspire, and memorialize, if necessary, awe of those shock-proof shit detectors that some are blessed to be endowed with. Epitaph Numb-er Too He did not suffer Fools

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POEM: End the Israeli Occupation — Owed to the Palestinian People

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Top Pun

The Israeli occupation must end. The latest in generations-long human rights violations and obstinate abrogation of international law must end. Cutting of water, food, electricity and fuel to an entire population, mostly civilians, of course, is a moral horror. No … Continue reading →

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POEM: Bread A Loan

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a meditation on making money, positing that we should make enough money to live but should seek to stay clear of the powerful drift and grift of money making you. Bread A Loan He sought to raze … Continue reading →

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POEM: Tears in My Soul

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a mournful riff on the destructive grievance politics of the so-called right. Of course, what is left is left, with love and hope remaining to knit life wince agin. Tears in My Soul Where divides multiply As … Continue reading →

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POEM: Spoke in the We’ll

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Top Pun

I yearn for an age where the human community and the body politic are led by a spirit of soulful imagination and creative passions rather than base impulses of material gain and vain status. May we join as planetary citizenry … Continue reading →

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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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