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Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings
POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
Here is a Halloween poem. This poem is an eerie, haunting meditation on imminent death, specifically, at the hands of a deathly force. For some time, I have had this image of someone taking my life and my last words … Continue reading
POEM: Wiled Fires
Wild fire smoke plumes are still messing up our air quality. Unfortunately, with asthma, I pay a lot of attention to such things. Check out the air quality yourself at: https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Toledo&state=OH&country=USA (set for Toledo). Of course, I have a poem … Continue reading
POEM: Progress
If continuing consumerism is our notion of progress, then carrion and on… Progress Progress is An allusion To something ails Bought ensouled Re: store As you whir
POEM: Fratricide
In case you didn’t no, fratricide is the killing of one’s brother, or sister, or any member of won’s own, such as children of God. O Israel, do not bring a bout a hollowed future echoing with grief. Fratricide We … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
Most people are skeptical of something coming out of nowhere — no surprise there. However, many people overlook the commonly cynical view that much of what we do disappears into nothing, makes no difference. Perhaps dispelling this cynical magic would … Continue reading
POEM: Re fooling
As climate chaos ravages our one and only home, many are still mostly worried about gas prices and refueling… Re fooling Gaming on Saving the planet was Up to US And he was speeding down The high way Rushing to … Continue reading
POEM: Monkey Business
Letting go and getting on with the good life, that bye the weigh which is not hanging on to wealth, power, and status. Monkey Business “To trap a monkey relies on its clenched fist, unwilling to let go.” It was … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Dreams, Evolution, Life, Power, Status, Wealth
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POEM: Love Birds
Back to nature. Forward to nature. Love Birds His life peered As an empty field Soully a tree Stray flowers A pair of birds Blades of grasses Up on closer inspection Colonies of bugs A myriad of life On the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Heaven, Holy, Life, Love, Nature
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POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s “de-escalation through escalation.” Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war. Needle-less to Say: … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Culture, Israel, Nonviolence, Violence, War
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POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
The warring mob bosses speak with murderous necessity about “my enemy made me do it.” A ledged human freedom is disappeared. An even more assure bet is that the mob bosses are, oddly, never out of whack. So, if you … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Enemies, Freedom, Sleep
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POEM: Brand Knew
Every war starts with something to the effect of: “This is a new kind of war, a new kind of enemy that we have never seen before.” Spoiler alert: war is the same owed shit recycled. Anew kind, of war, … Continue reading
POEM: Fort Knox Elementary
JD Vance at the Vice Presidential debate became the latest exemplar of the hollow response to school shootings, offering thoughts and preyers, and fortresses, and nothing else in between — except offering up our children to gun terror. This poem … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, God, Guns, Kids, Silence
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POEM: Unfrock The World
With this poem, I inaugurate won of my many titles: “The most write irreverend.” Unfrock The World I slammed it Hearty har hard In fool reveres Being soully in titled The most write irreverend Fore awe Who will hear The … Continue reading
POEM: De-construction Jobs
This poem goes out to those lives and communities where climate disasters wreak havoc, especially those suffering in the chasm between those who have the wherewithal to recover and those who don’t. May we be good neighbors to each other … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authorities, Chaos, Jobs, Mother Earth, Suffering, Work
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POEM: A Bit Touched
Some people claim that people who are a bit disturbed are more creative. This may be true. Surly, I am a bit touched…as this poem would have it. A Bit Touched I was a bit down Taking me To the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Dream, Heart, Poetry
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POEM: That’s Rich
Most rich people consider themselves just, comfortable. My favorite dialogue from the movie, Crazy Rich Asians: Rachel Chu: “So your family is, like, rich?” Nick Young: “We’re comfortable.” Rachel Chu: “That is exactly what a super-rich person would say.” That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crazy, Family, Life, Money, Rich
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POEM: Jackson Pollack Heart Work
This poem was inspired by the image of my heart exploding and the splatter creating an unfathomable work of heart on any walls closing in on me. Jackson Pollack Heart Work I was cornered Awe round me I temped too … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authorities, Awe, Death, God, Heart, Image, Life, Soul, Work
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POEM: A Man of Promise
A poem of what is owed, what is the present, and what is yet to come… A Man of Promise “What is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love mercy, and to walk … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, God, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Love, Mercy, Present
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POEM: A Salt & Battery
This poem is a meditation on that sense of being positively negative. There is something electric between positivity and negativity. I am a salt of the earth kind of guy, a dude abiding, and yet some people don’t take kindly … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Meditation, Power, Truth
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POEM: Phone Smarts
Cell phones, so-called “smart” phones, seem to have wraith-like abilities, sucking the life out of us. I yearn for peace and quiet, and these beeping devices grab hour, a tension. This poem is owed, to such a diction… Phone Smarts … Continue reading