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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Right-Sized
The challenge of humility is of being too large OR of being too small… Right-Sized Life could be scene As posing two problems Thirst of all Too be bigger than What is called for And lastly Being sow small Knot … Continue reading
POEM: Taming of the Shrewd
The shrewdness of winning and losing is not a natural ally in love and relationships… Taming of the Shrewd “We can cleave as one, or cleave as won, but we can’t due both.” – Cleave Jones Ø my love Could … Continue reading
POEM: Sow Few Nobles
This poem was inspired by my niece playing the role of Beatrice in Bill Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing… Sow Few Nobles The whys shake their aheads Fore a town with sow few nobles Too be so fortunate Or knot … Continue reading
POEM: Roughly, The Sighs of a Heart
This poem is a bout that dance between empathy and enraging injustices… Roughly, The Sighs of a Heart “The human heart is some wear around the size of a fist.” The other Day I saw A gripping tale Of a … Continue reading
POEM: Imparts Are Imparts
Creation is singularly awesome! Imparts Are Imparts I was taken in Awe of the flora and fauna Creatures big and small And just entertaining How might God be Hold this see of creation As won Greater or lesser Then another … Continue reading
POEM: Book Ends
Life has boundaries. May we respect those boundaries… Book Ends We live Fore the time being In a whirled Sow illiterate That disrespects The bookends of life The sacred nest Of awe human life And the reverence Of Mother Earth … Continue reading
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Tagged Mother Earth, mother nature
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POEM: Is It Passable?
Sow trying to live a choice life… Is It Passable? Is it passable Won’s hole Life spent Caught in the balance Between overwhelmed And underwhelmed Everything screaming buy Nothing left Yet still Presence Joys sprinkled Long the wayside For you … Continue reading
POEM: Meet Up
Worth the admission prize… Meet Up I must admit When God and I meet up I keep minutes Though in awe Honest Seams amor Like ours Somewhere between Novel Punch line Or just teas Weather God’s plays Or my plays … Continue reading
POEM: That Vast Nest of Inner Space
There is a cosmos inside of us, just as import to the cosmos around us… That Vast Nest of Inner Space Let me Way in On this microcosmic scale That vast nest of inner space As more sow A dream … Continue reading
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POEM: Good Reeds
Resistance is natural. Resilience is integral to nature… Good Reeds Are you up For a good reed Beyond getting bent In during the furious Winds of change And with standing Holding fast To won’s nature Grounded Rooted It’s knot a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Resistance
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POEM: Fossil Fools
This poem goes out to the COP30 climate conference from the mouth of the Amazon about won passable future… Fossil Fools Deep in the future The alien archeologists landed Long after the human raze Was extincting to hi heaven What … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Climate Change, Environment, Environmental, Mother Earth, mother nature
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POEMS: God Rains on The Just and The Unjust
This poem is about hubris, specifically that dividing lyin’ between our powerful tendency to favor our own interests, subjective or not, over others who are often reduced to means toward ends, without equal favor. I find the axiom that God … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems
Tagged Enemies, God, Hubris, Jesus, Love
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POEM: Undergound Man
Much of the life of a plant goes on unseen under ground in the root system. I suspect that most of the good work in humanity happens largely out of sight… Undergound Man Won might not see me As I … Continue reading
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Tagged Existential
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POEM: Life and Death Import
I find that the urgent and not sow important often overtake and undertake the less urgent and amor important… Life and Death Import His sway was won of Much urgency and little importance A bit vane Having That inclination down … Continue reading
POEM: Beauty Skulks
Beauty Skulks Beauty skulks a bout Content to live on the fringe Beyond the frayed Gently weaving our story In the margins Not lured buy the bait and switch Of the spot light Rather bathed in that savory light Illuminating … Continue reading
POEM: Desperation Not Suiting
The opposite of faith is not doubt, it is desperation… Desperation Not Suiting Weave awe confronted Hopelessness looming When hour best is dammed fear A posit of faith Mortifyingly making degrade My basis uncovered As sensitive embody ensoul As lonely … Continue reading
POEM: The Shape of Water
This poem is a meditation on life being a fluid situation… The Shape of Water It was a fluid situation Matched soully bye That mettle Ground Staring at his naval He was blind at see Taking on water Flailing a … Continue reading
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POEM: Amoral Architecture
Yesterday, a group of eight Toledoans met with the staff of Ohio Senator Jon Husted. This visit was a follow-up from a visit last month where we presented several specific questions to be answered in this visit. There were no … Continue reading
POEM: Monkey Kings
This poem employs an image the pops into my mind concerning our body politic, that is, poop throwing monkeys… Monkey Kings Proud to a fault As they whir Citizens Of sorts abiding In a banana republic Run by poop throne … Continue reading
POEM: No Thy Ideology
I suspect that we are moving into a “black pill” era in America, where deep alienation, learned helplessness, and nihilism corrodes much of ideology of any sort and left-right divides provide less and less explanatory power in our body politic. … Continue reading