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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Does a Bear Shit in the Woulds?
Profoundly subjective experiences may be subject to hard-no’s skepticism. Of coarse, mirror facts can be shit and whole some normative plays can be the shit… Does a Bear Shit in the Woulds? Does a bear shit In the mettle Of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Scientific Reductionism, Skepticism, Subjectivity
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POEM: Appendix to Everything
This poem is a follow-up or sequel to a very short poem that I wrote 13 years earlier: Everything reminds me of everything else. See blog entry on this poem. The follow-up adds a feel-good sense to knowing that everything … Continue reading
POEM: Mercy is Fore
Mercy is a strength that mere strength knows little of… Mercy is Fore The powermongers Would halve you Believe That mercy Saved for Sunday A paltry tithe To the Lord of awe Who knows better that Mercy is for the … Continue reading
POEM: Underworked Poetry
This poem is about my experience writing poetry, where I as the author get a singular portion of the experience, probably more that those relegated to reading merely the final product. This poem is a cousin to my poem: My … Continue reading
POEM: Happy Knew Year!
Out with the owed, in with anew, and may it awe be good… Happy Knew Year! Like no other time Be for it Each new year arrives Like a newborn baby naked Yet eventually come to clothes Wear ever Life … Continue reading
POEM: To Shut Me Up
SPOILER ALERT: I’ve learned that the instant someone starts looking at their phone, they are no longer present to me, and I shut up. Multi-tasking is a myth. To Shut Me Up If you wont To shut me up Pick … Continue reading
POEM: Titanic Listing
Sometimes that which seems urgent is less important than any of a thousand other choices… Titanic Listing Why oh why The why’s ax Must the eternal and infernal be On my too due list As daze go buy The lilliputian … Continue reading
POEM: Hows Calls
God lives mostly outside the walls of the church… Hows Calls Bound to the masses They awe the same yearned To counter the tradition ill Making the most Popular mistake Of going to church As being won With the Lord … Continue reading
POEM: Usual Suspects
The existential weigh of life is the usual suspects of weather cruelty or kindness… Usual Suspects They whir In the thick And thin Of being A usual suspect Suspecting weather life Might be Kind or cruel Soulful or heartless Such … Continue reading
POEM: Wholed On
Hang onto awe. It’s worth the ride… Wholed On I could Soully sea Every which weigh Taken in Awe directions In life And with it Countless horizons Even awe at wince As just taut 360/365 Degrees Between birth daze As … Continue reading
POEM: The Kinds of Reality
The subjective aspect of life is determining. I can look at any given reality, or a reality forced upon me, depending how I look at it, and see something very different depending on my attitude and perspective. I strive for … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Gift, Gratitude
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POEM: The Ultimate Subversive Force
A poem about love versus fear and subjugation… The Ultimate Subversive Force Bigger than me Bigger than you Bigger than our enemies The largesse of awe Making us Gloriously beggar Then we can imagine Effacing loss As due without Domination … Continue reading
POEM: Surveillance States
The presence of God is poorly replicated by omnipresent video surveillance of the state… Surveillance States Picture this Video hear and their Be rating eyes Every wear Wolves in sheep’s clothing A mass of law enforcement Worshipping God-light tech Searching … Continue reading
POEM: The Goaled in Age?
Trump and his malignant narcissism are not aging well… The Goaled in Age? There is no End to its awe A bout Me All CAPITOL OVER-THE-HILL Shorting US on truth Long in the tooth Owed-er and owed-er He gets Ever … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Donald Trump, Narcissism
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POEM: Name of Names
There are names of things and there is the One whose name cannot be named. The mysticism in my poetry is its fount and a fare portion of its inaccessibility. When relating to the largesse truths, to get close to … Continue reading
POEM: Nourishment
I have COVID. I am homebound. Though the worst of it is over, my sweetheart is doing a grocery run for me today. Here is a short poem in her honor… Nourishment You deliver Nourishment Of awe kinds You are … Continue reading
POEM: Heir Quality
Ohio air quality ranks 46th among states. As an asthmatic, I keep tabs on real time air quality. I have noticed that in the summer Toledo typically gets its air quality coming in from the northwest, and in the winter … Continue reading
POEM: As Sick Care As Republic Can
I hope that we can all agree that American health care is busted and won’t be fixed with more neoliberal profiteering or Republican austerity. We seem to have perfected less health care for more cost. Let’s give Medicare for all … Continue reading
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POEM: Amor Guns, Then People
The United States is the only country in the world with more guns than people. Feel free, too take a shot, at why we have the highest rate of mass murder events… Amor Guns, Then People Schooled in another mass … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Gun, Gun Violence, Guns, Violence
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POEM: Anti-Woke Dreaming
If the American dream shows up more like a nightmare, then it’s time to wake up… Anti-Woke Dreaming He’s a great businessman The rubes said in Unisom® Hardily any bankruptcies Moral or otherwise A-list of fake convictions As if he’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Donald Trump, woke
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