Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

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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POEM: Lilliputian Vampires — Ode to Bed Bugs

Posted on September 16, 2023 by Top Pun

Earlier this summer, at an air bnb, we were hit by a bed bug infestation. Bed bug bites are characterized by three bites in a row, and I had a couple dozen bites strewn over my body. Some bites were … Continue reading →

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POEM: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Top Pun

One of the cutting edges of AI, artificial intelligence, is large language models that can veraciously consume massive amounts of writing in short order — more info than thousands of humans in a lifetime. However impressive this might be, my … Continue reading →

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POEM: North Pole

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem was inspired by my lack of sense of direction in a high rise, where both directions I looked seemed like south to me. Of course, the only place on earth where every direction you look south is the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is yet another ode to my love affair with Mother Earth and the endurance and multi-generational commitment needed to forestall catastrophic climate chaos. Walking the Second Thousand Miles Hiking out of a desert Of environmental neglect With rising … Continue reading →

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POEM: Making Know Deference

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about what may be the biggest con to which we are subject: that what you do doesn’t make any difference. I see this as a cynical project by those in power to entrench and secure a status … Continue reading →

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POEM: Locked in Prism

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is inspired by one of the things I learned in prison: that everybody there is innocent. Of course, by this I mean that everybody claims to be innocent. I learned that this phenomenon is rooted in the notion … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond

Posted on September 10, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem plays with the metaphor of the many ripples of life set in motion by epic forces that set up an existential dance with the universe… A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond In mist of the universe Plunges … Continue reading →

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POEM: Here on Abet

Posted on September 9, 2023 by Top Pun

A mythic narrative that describes the arc of my life fairly well is the idea that I am here on a bet. More specifically, the bet was that, as in a previous life, I was a peasant scolding those living … Continue reading →

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POEM: Away With Words

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Top Pun

Some years ago, I heard a Latin American poet say that his criteria for keeping a poem was whether it improved upon silence. This seems like a good rule for speaking in most situations. Away With Words How can I … Continue reading →

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POEM: Did I Hear You Write?

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Top Pun

This funny short poem takes particular advantage of how my punny writing is used to meditate on righting the whirled. My poems typically read silently differently than how they seem read out loud. This is a good example of my … Continue reading →

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POEM: To Know a Veil

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about desiring God, and for the spirit to fully incarnate in flesh. I have long thought that the best metaphors for understanding God is through parenthood, the unconditional love for a child, and through being lovers, desiring … Continue reading →

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