Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings

Political Philosophy Writings

POEM: Barren His Soul

Posted on April 2, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem in 2018 when the Donald Trump hush money case with porn star Stormy Daniels was being investigated as a violation of election laws. Unfortunately, years and years later this case is just coming to trial. When … Continue reading →

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POEM: Hope Ungraduated

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Top Pun

This is a poem that plays with the fact that I graduated from Hope College. I have literally graduated from hope! Of course, hope is not simply something that can be metered out in a “graduated” fashion, and neither hoard … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Lessen of Mirror Nihilism

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Top Pun

On occasion, when someone thanks me for doing something, I have been known to say, with a bit of satire, “If I didn’t do it someone else would.” Of course, in a great many instances, this is not true. My … Continue reading →

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POEM: An Artist And

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a reflection on the tension between an artistic vocation and the pull to become a commercial success. Creating art and monetizing art are often extremely different things. An Artist And She was a consummate artist Sow she … Continue reading →

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POEM: What is De-served?

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Top Pun

In a grievance-filled whirled, there is often attention brought to rights violations, particularly when it is one’s own rights that are violated. Of course, rights are meaningless without responsibilities to secure those rights. This is where the chasm in securing … Continue reading →

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POEM: Baby-ize

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Top Pun

We awe start as twinkles in someone’s eye’s. Reflecting on this may help us recognize our common origins and shared destinies. Baby-ize She looked at me Without pretension In two me That soul window As easily won As lost From … Continue reading →

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POEM: People of Consequence

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Top Pun

Our actions have consequences. We are people of consequence. The ends are determined by the means. Unfortunately, the inanity in our culture, which may, much of the time, seem harmless in it meaninglessness, meets up with epic crimes against humanity. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Rat Race Religion

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a meditation on the banality of evil that arises from good people doing nothing when it comes knocking at their doorstep. This accomplice-ment is aided by a blinding enmeshment in a rat race offering, justification for ignoring … Continue reading →

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POEM: It’s Awe Poetry

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Top Pun

This is a poet’s poem, particularly for those poets who employ free verse, which might not be recognized as poetry. Personally, I can guarantee that my free verse is worth every penny. It’s Awe Poetry He said “I don’t see … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Hole of Life

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Top Pun

Sometimes life leaves you only shitty choices. Of coarse, in many cases, making at least some choice is better than doing nothing or living in fear. Fortunately, whether we make a choice or not, a new set of choices arise, … Continue reading →

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POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Top Pun

Community organizing can be difficult and thankless. I am grateful for those who do such work. Thanks! Still, at times, won’s work can become a bearin’ place, yielding cynicism and skepticism, even of those who appreciate you. Tossing aside potential … Continue reading →

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POEM: As The Whirled Goes Bye

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Top Pun

When I look out into the world, I often get the image of chickens running around with their heads cut off. I see an addiction to “winning” that disconnects us from creation, others and ourselves, and in supreme irony, races … Continue reading →

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POEM: Nobodies

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Top Pun

The powers that be school us in learned helplessness. The powers that be want to convince you that you are a nobody, in their scheme of things. Well, good people, I know plenty of “nobodies” who are awesome wrenches in … Continue reading →

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POEM: This Poet’s Prayer

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem reflects my basic spirituality of ever moving toward One’s vision of the good, even as my view is a dim reflection. The One thing that I can judge my progress on is my commitment to this path yearning … Continue reading →

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POEM: Optimism — A Buy Product of Hope

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Top Pun

There is a difference between optimism and hope. Optimism is about the inertia and trajectory of facts on the ground, while hope is a metaphysical reality that seeps into life of awe kinds amidst a dizzying array of means. Hope … Continue reading →

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POEM: Untouchable

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem reflects on the divide between masculine and feminine ways of being in the world. One of the most stark examples is “incels” who are involuntarily celibate, often because they have a palpable misogyny that women find unattractive. The … Continue reading →

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POEM: Redeeming Coup on Pharaohs

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Top Pun

God has a sense of humor. Sometimes pompous, hypocritical religionists get their religion handed to them on a plate by the disenfranchised who have a gift of accessing truth in strange places, redeeming that worthless scrip of others. The lords … Continue reading →

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POEM: An Eve with Netanyahu

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Top Pun

As President Biden campaigns on a pro-democracy platform against the corrupt Donald Trump, he is tag teaming genocide in Gaza with his long-time friend, the corrupt Israeli PM Netanyahu, the “Bibi” brain and heart of the military onslaught and deadly … Continue reading →

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POEM: Compassion Sidelined

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Top Pun

A poem for our collective denial of our responsibility to prevent genocide. Free Palestine! No one is free until all are free. Compassion Sidelined An aye for an aye And a no for a know A tooth for a tooth … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Confession — For the Birds

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Top Pun

I don’t have a lot of regrets in life. Still, one of the stupidest and cruelest things I ever did was as a kid when I shot dead with a BB gun a bunch of birds hanging out in a … Continue reading →

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