Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings

Political Philosophy Writings

POEM: Making Know Deference

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Locked in Prism

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: To Know a Veil

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about desiring God, and for the spirit to fully incarnate in flesh. I have long thought that the best metaphors for understanding God is through parenthood, the unconditional love for a child, and through being lovers, desiring … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Ark of History

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: A Madder of Time

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Watery Grave

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Over Shadowing Evolution

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Karma Cat -28,000 Poems

Posted on August 20, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: A Singular Err, Over, And Over

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Made Passable

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Con Tending With Not Sees

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Top Pun

While it may be musing to wonder what if there were no hypothetical questions, Nazi Germany has thrown up countless real-life scenarios to curdle your soul. The scenario referenced in this poem is taken from the movie, Nine Days, where … Continue reading →

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POEM: Cat and Mouse Game

Posted on August 13, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Sure Fire Means and Ends

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a reflection on the inextricable link between means and ends, and the devastatingly common mistake of de-linking means ands ends producing an endless array of “means” and “ends”. The short game often shorts us; though I recognize … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Devil Made Me – Due It

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Top Pun

Here is a poem about one of my longstanding pet peeves, the moral laziness of “necessary” evil. Evil happens. Evil is unavoidable. Still, if evil is an ethical choice made by moral agents, it cannot be necessary. None the less, … Continue reading →

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POEM: Grizzled Prospector

Posted on July 25, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about the difficult prospecting in life for goaled. There are many treasures to be discovered and re-discovered, even as life occasionally collapses upon us. Of course, each time we get through to the other side, however grizzled, … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Seventh Generation Fuel

Posted on July 24, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a tip of the hat to indigenous peoples’ supremely wise practice of considering every decision in the light of how it will affect people seven generations down the road. I wrote this during the dark of the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Secret Quest

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem plays with the intrinsically obscure interior nature of subjective experience. While one may want to speak of potentially mystical or God experiences, there is an irreducible aspect that cannot be reliably verified, at least in the typical scientific … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Whole In My Soul

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about living in the grievously beautiful realty that a truly open heart is a broken heart. I wrote this poem years ago, and now I have come to understand that my heart is broke in, as in … Continue reading →

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POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Top Pun

Here is a poem a bout AI, artificial intelligence. This is a poem with ATTITUDE!  Today’s news included this: Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. With this poem, I throw down the gauntlet to … Continue reading →

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POEM: Mine, Mine, Mine

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Top Pun

Dehumanizing extractive industries are destroying our environment, second only to climate change. Mining is a huge part of extractive industries’ destruction. And, ironically, the technologies needed for a green economy require immense quantities of minerals that drive the “green, green, … Continue reading →

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