Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: Awkward Period

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Top Pun

Awkward Period I am just Sow trying To navigate Well And empty well In this awkward period Between birth and death Life presents an unending series of challenges for which we can never be fully prepared. This truth embeds a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Skip to the Loo, My Darling

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Top Pun

Our prisons are filled with people with poorly treated substance use disorders, mental health issues, and the homeless. Prisons and jails are terrible places to deal with these issues. Incarceration is expensive, ineffective, and dehumanizing for those suffering these conditions. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Toying With An Explosive Future — Owed to Cluster Bombs

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Top Pun

The U.S. is pondering it’s grave commitment to banning the use of cluster bombs — between wars that is. Weather or knot to endow Ukraine with such weapons of war, that is, the madder of contention.  In case you didn’t … Continue reading →

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POEM: Seniority

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Top Pun

A short poem on aging well… Seniority I used to be Young and unafraid Now I am Just Old and unafraid I suspect that one of the most pivotal dynamics of aging is about fear and conformity. It seems that … Continue reading →

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POEM: Israel Boldly Squashes Refugee Camp — Owed to as Easy as Pi

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to all of the Palestinians bulldozed over and shot in Jenin, particularly the “permanent” refugee camp, by Israeli farces. May this poem become outmoded. Unfortunately, this poem has been written over and over through generations. Israel … Continue reading →

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POEM: Law Abiding Citizens — Until Not

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to all of those affected by mass shootings this “Independence” Day weekend: Law Abiding Citizens — Until Not The truth is Out Law Abiding citizens Until not Bearing arms And souls Entrails of blood And tears … Continue reading →

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POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem tells a story — a story of patriotic fervor in slaughtering America’s foes. This story was told to me by a retired Grumman engineer, a literal rocket scientist and career military-industrialist. His story was prefaced by a glorious … Continue reading →

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POEM: The World and Change

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Top Pun

This is a poem of hope and resistance. I find it easy to ponder all of the scary challenges the world offers. I sometimes need to remind myself that a deep understanding of how the world doesn’t work also comes … Continue reading →

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POEM: Capitalism Kills

Posted on July 2, 2023 by Top Pun

Capitalism works best as siphoning life and humanity from others. I dream of an economy that serves humanity rather than humanity serving the economy. Of course, this is more succinctly put by this poem: Capitalism Kills Capitalism is a dream … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Wrigley Question

Posted on July 1, 2023 by Top Pun

A funny little poem. A Wrigley Question I was not prone To such ambulating queries And it was not what I was expectorating “Who would spit their chewed gum on the sidewalk?” The question sticks deep in my sole

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POEM: Mother Earth Riffed

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Top Pun

I have literally cried for daze with wildfire smoke in my eyes. I pine for the daze where the earth on fire was largely a metaphor. This poem was delivered from purgatory. Mother Earth Riffed We live (sic) In a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Don’t Buy Colorblind Just U.S.

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Top Pun

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court banned using race as a consideration in college admissions. I’d like to take them to school with this poem: Don’t Buy Colorblind Just U.S. The people have been herd It has been dictated In black … Continue reading →

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POEM: Sorry, Mom

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a form of apology to Mother Earth for the daily grand rationalizations we tolerate in service of capitalism and The Economy, our won true God. I post this as wildfire smoke engulfs multiple states with killer air … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Dog Edit My Homework

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Top Pun

I have encountered many opportunities to attend writers workshops and such. The impulse for me to attend has never arose. My style of poetry is free — and writefully worth every penny! Thus, this poem: The Dog Edit My Homework … Continue reading →

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POEM: Humble Chic – “Yet I am poor, because I am a river to my people.”

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a tip of the hat to the movie, Lawrence of Arabia, where Lawrence is schooled by his Arab friend after claiming that he is a mere servant. His friend recounts many epic deeds and concludes: “Yet I … Continue reading →

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POEM: What Gives? Owed to Mutually Assured Destruction

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem was inspired by a recent conversation with an apologist for the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction, infamously known as MAD. I am not a fan of so-called “necessary evil”; if evil is necessary, then it is … Continue reading →

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POEM: Anchoring Our Humanity

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Top Pun

At the time of publication of this poem the five souls lost in Horizon’s Titan submersible have not been found or rescued. Anchoring Our Humanity An other deep see adventure On the Horizon Look out A sentry after One Titanic … Continue reading →

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POEM: Never Growing Owed

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Top Pun

Here is a poem about giving and receiving freely, and about the gift economy: Never Growing Owed Would you like To be Some kind Of soul proprietor Of the free world Giving and receiving Too sides Of a nonexistent coin … Continue reading →

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POEM: Stanza Loan

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Top Pun

A poem about the nighttime dance with the muse: Stanza Loan My peripatetic soul Me-and-her-ing In the meddle of the night Stairing into space Looking fore A heavenward sealing Holing up Foiling Oh my Vega bonding Only to be Trolled … Continue reading →

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POEM — Wisdom Verses: Foolishness

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Top Pun

Partnering with artificial intelligence, AI, may be check mate for humanity… Wisdom Verses: Foolishness In loo Of our search for actual intelligence Wee will Be dethroned Buy artificial intelligentsia Knot knowing jack A john rolled by its trick A carnival … Continue reading →

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