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Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings
POEM: Unentitled Ekphrasis 247
Ekphrasis is a description of a work of visual art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise. This ekphratic poem is about the classically unassuming (“unentitled”) still life painting of a bowl of fruit. Since this type of painting is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Life, Nature, Work
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POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’
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
Posted in Anti-War, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Future, Nature, Nonviolence, Poor, Reality, Sacred, Success, Violence, War
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POEM: Straight Manly Complaining
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Gender, Homophobia, Women
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POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Fundamentalism, Funny, Gödel, Humility, Ideology, Life, Luck, Possibility, Reality, State, Zero Tolerance
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POEM: A Cain Due Attitude
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Existential, Greed, Heaven, Humanity, Love, Money, Titanic
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POEM: Conversion Raiding
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
POEM: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Awe, Humanity, Idioms, Ode, Prose, Relationships, Shakespeare
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POEM: North Pole
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Meaning, Moral, Relationships, Work
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POEM: Making Know Deference
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Children, Cynical, God, Hope, Power, Status, Status Quo, Truth
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POEM: Locked in Prism
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
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Civil Disobedience, Heart, Illegal, Justice, Lawyer, Meaning, Military, Prison, State, Time
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POEM: The Ark of History
Martin Luther King, Jr. said that “the arc of history bends toward justice.” I share this hope, and plan to add my share of acts and just living. May we all join in blessed solidarity and work to tell history … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, History, Hope, Justice, Loss, Solidarity, Suffering, Work
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POEM: A Madder of Time
This poem plays with the notions of patience and urgency in a whirled that can be crazy, like berserkers crying for help. The tempting insanity of joining the frenetic pace of crazy can’t just be brushed off, as some sane … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crazy, Insanity, Patience, Time
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POEM: Watery Grave
This is a poem about overwhelming gratitude in a world of constant change and great loss. Gratitude is perhaps the best antidote to resentments. Still, even if one lets go of resentments, one often needs to say goodbye to whatever … Continue reading
POEM: Over Shadowing Evolution
This poem is an invitation to live beyond mere Darwinism, survival of the fittest, which is typically viewed as competition and inevitable violence. I vote for cooperation and beautiful ambitions far exceeding won more f-ing generation. We do not live … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Competition, Cooperation, Evolution, Violence
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POEM: Karma Cat -28,000 Poems
This poem toys with the notion of karma and reincarnation as a vehicle for moral evolution and sum sort of cosmic justice. This poem employs as a metaphor the relationship between a karmic cat living thousands of lives encountering uncounted … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Balance, Crude, Cruelty, Culture, Evolution, Forgiveness, Genius, Hate, Holy, Hope, Jesus, Justice, Karma, Life, Loss, Luck, Meaning, Mind, Moral, Mourning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Skepticism, Society, Transcendent
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POEM: A Singular Err, Over, And Over
This short poem plays with the notion that merely existing is an awesome win, and being a grump after this singular win is a singular err. A Singular Err, Over, And Over In spite Of halving one The existence lottery … Continue reading
POEM: Made Passable
1984 may be voted the most likely to be a “Groundhog Year,” repeated over and over and over. The book, 1984, by George Orwell, written in the aftermath of World War II, is a stark warning about authoritarianism that holds … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cautionary Tale, Conscience, God, Queer, Rules, Soul, Surreal, Time, War
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POEM: Cat and Mouse Game
There are many ways to view God, or not. This poem plays with deferent weighs to see God. The title, Cat and Mouse Game, refers specifically to a very clever and brave mouse who hides in the cat’s ear to … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged God, Incarnation, Job, Life, Love
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