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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: God’s Preferential Option
I have learned that an open heart is a broken heart. A common reaction to pain, stress, or trauma is to close down as a defense mechanism. While the world has plenty of pain, stress, and trauma, a healthy response … Continue reading
POEM: Reckon Knot
This world is a mournful place. I hope I bring to this life more laughing than crying. Reckon Knot I laugh I cry I laugh To keep from crying Still I cry As I am Awe ready Moved to laugh … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Hope, Life
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POEM: Straddling Two Realms
I am an infinitely bigger fan of possibilities than probabilities. Possibilities change the trajectory of what is; all else is mere calculation. Straddling Two Realms He ate possibilities for breakfast Awe ways Kneading more room And inevitable movements He straddled … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Mourning
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POEM: Can You Ever Halve Enough?
Can we ever afford to kill one another? It certainly seems sow. Unfortunately, when an awareness arises of the steep cost of killing, it is often too late. Sadly, we may halve our life and eat it too. Can You … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Life
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POEM: Re-Nouned
I am not one for titles and hierarchical living. Of coarse, labels serve some function in relating to one another. Still, I yearn for human relations where titles of status and power do not confound our basic humanity. Thus, this … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Humanity, Power, President, Quakers, Respect, Society, Spirituality, Status
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POEM: Calling Awe Taxidermists
I suspect each of us has encountered fakes, stiffs, who too routinely fail to treat others humanely, seemingly deadened by their own, lifeless stuff. Thus, this poem: Calling Awe Taxidermists He was his own Worst faux And stiff Was his … Continue reading
POEM: The Weigh of Our Great Grandchildren
This poem employs the metaphor of using irresponsible and unsustainable credit that must be paid by future generations. Externalizing the true costs from the present sticker price of our way of life by ignoring environmental costs incurred by fossil fuels … Continue reading
POEM: Doxxed
My religion is unorthodox, and those orthodox varieties of all sorts find me heretical. Doxxed He was doxxed From the right From the left Catching hell And heaven From both sides Paradoxxed Inscrutably sow In a dyslexic manor E pluribus … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Heaven, Hell, Religion
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POEM: A Perfect 11
This poem channels my inner 11 year old. I am happy to embrace my inner 11 year old as part of who I am. A Perfect 11 It was an emotional age Living in that boy hood And now Just … Continue reading
POEM: Heart Confetti
My heart breaks, particularly when US cannot brake genocide. Heart Confetti My heart Shatters A billion peaces Shuttered Once helled To gather Now veinly hoping Fore a body politic And singular victory A party to genocide And ticker tape prayed
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Heart
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POEM: Taking a Bite Out of War Crime
I am far more worried about Joe Biden’s moral feebleness than I am about any alleged physical or mental feebleness. End the genocide in Gaza! Taking a Bite Out of War Crime Get that man some dentures Grandpa Joe needs … Continue reading
POEM: Chaste Tree
I can’t help but chuckle and shake my head on many a daze as I observe folks chasing sparkly objects with such apparent vigor. I can’t help but peer as a fool myself, where my attention is rapt, as you … Continue reading
POEM: As Humanity Reseeds
Here is an apocalyptic valentine, a final kiss planted. As Humanity Reseeds That final mourning We greet With a kiss A poetic rejoinder Transcendent graffiti Write on the apocalypse In a whirled that had Drunk The Kool-Aid® Even at that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, God, Humanity, Mourning, Transcendent, Valentine
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POEM: Courting Pro Bait
I am a sojourner in this world — just, passing through, paying it forward. I’d rather give everything I got than sell anything. Those with heirs can sort that shit out… Courting Pro Bait I have no will Of my … Continue reading
POEM: The Means
As commander-in-chief Biden provides unconditional support indispensable to Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza, he offers inconsequential advice, even “warnings,” to limit mass civilian killings. If stopping genocide, the worst crime known to man, is somehow a close call, then his … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cowardice, Crime, Israel, Moral
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POEM: Dogged Reasoning
This a poem highlighting the barren view of life that rugged reasoning can impose on the awesome experience of consciousness. Life is much more than sterile propagation of the specious. Dogged Reasoning He wood Knot know Consciousness If he Saw … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Experience, God, Job, Life
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POEM: Heir to a Thousand Generations
This poem is about recognizing and appreciating that we rest on the shoulders of a thousand generations and that each moment can take inspiration from this long arc of our existence, powering us forward in ways worthy of our ancestors. … Continue reading
POEM: The Weigh Forward
This poem is about moving forward into the future, looking up, not looking down, living holistically, not partial to tribalism. The Weigh Forward Awe ways ahead Sum times behind Never beneath As earth is before me I may know What … Continue reading
POEM: Gaza, Eat It
This poem addresses the Gazan’s plight of living under siege in an open air prison, under massive military assault, including widespread bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure. This poem highlights the genocidal assault, particularly the mass starvation as a result … Continue reading
POEM: Pokey Politics
Republicans continue to cling to a policy-free zone, crammed with demagoguery. Pokey Politics Republican politics Is like poking you with a stick To see what you will Due What we can get A weigh with And I can’t help But … Continue reading