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Tag Archives: Ancient
POEM: Destiny is as Character Duhs
Far too often it seems that cheaters and brutes win the day, and honest and kind folks get the short end of the stick. This poem is a meditation reminding myself that character, whether good or bad, and whether of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Change, Character, Gandhi, Meditation, Reality, Wisdom
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POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place
This poem tells a story — a story of patriotic fervor in slaughtering America’s foes. This story was told to me by a retired Grumman engineer, a literal rocket scientist and career military-industrialist. His story was prefaced by a glorious … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Awe, Bullshit, Defense, Evil, Farce, Hell, Humanity, Irony, Job, Media, Mercy, Military, Money, Necessary Evil, Patriotism, Technology, War
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POLITICAL POEM: Elections Bought and Souled
What due You Know choice candidates Fenced by kleptocrats And undebatable Republicrats Their exclusive promise A system fixed Throwing political parties Incorporations wee trust In-firm ideologies The body politic Under the whether Or worse yet Riddled with ballots Everlustingly powered … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Ballot, Choices, Consumption, Donald Trump, Elections, Funny, Future, Hell, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Puns, Republican, Revolution, Sacred, State, Third Party, Time, Trust, Wisdom
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POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: Beauty Us Aging
There is a beauty In aging A reservoir Of singular moments And glistening years In ignorance passed Belying youth In wrinkled knows At untaut skin In the game Wear even The future rests Just In time As quiet A scene … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Awe, Beauty, Blessing, Experience, Future, Grace, Gratitude, Learning, Life, Loss, Poems, Poetry, Time, Wisdom
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POEM: Corn Fed Politicians
We are surrounded By corn fed politicians Who don’t eat corn But slaughter the herd Fed only corn In a round a bout weigh In realty And capitol punishment Their hire power Contracts executioners To deal with every unwieldy beef … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Authority, Community, Cynical, Dehumanizing, Elite, Food, Job, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Meaning, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Punishment, Radical, Relationships, Respect, Sustainable, Work
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POEM: Silver Bullets
Beware of cellars of silver bullets Proffering too for won buys As wear wolves clothing In the face Of murder-suicide Know if, and, or butt Totally transmogrifying In a fool moon rising A dark knight A bastard sun Offering kool … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Consumerism, Human Nature, Laziness, Lazy, Murder, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Resistance, Soul, Suicide, Virtue, Wisdom
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POEM: Albatross Necklace Futures
I stared at the world I could have built Had I Grasped more Farce fully A stock pile Awe but reaching Heaven Falling short Of mature stature Leaving behind Child’s play The ripe now And not trading in Futures Of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Ancient, Awe, Bible, Blessed, Choices, Christian, Christianity, Compassion, Courage, Evil, Faith, Farce, Future, God, Heaven, Hubris, Humanity, Ideology, Idolatry, Image, Irony, Islam, Life, Love, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, People of The Book, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religious, Respect, Responsibility, Sacred, Science, Society, Spiritual, Status, Technology, Time, Trust, Truth, Values, Vanity, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: The Game of Life
One day I realized The game of life And going back In the box Only to find The rules had been lost Long a go And still The game goes on This short poem plays with the notion that life … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Attitude, Authority, Awe, Buddhism, Change, Character, China, Consciousness, Courage, Creativity, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Foolish, Freedom, God, Greed, Hate, Hope, Humor, Hypocrisy, Idealism, Insanity, Institutionalize, Irreverence, Joy, Life, Love, Militarism, Mind, Modern, Obedience, Pacifism, Play, Playfulness, Political, President, Psychology, Questioning, Rage, Reality, Religion, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rhetoric, Rich, Rules, Sacred, Sincerity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Success, Truth, Universe, Utopia, Violence, War, Willingness, Wisdom, Zen
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POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, America, Ancient, Authority, Awe, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Change, Children, Community, Compassion, Consumerism, Conundrum, Counter-Cultural, Creation, Culture, Debt, Dehumanizing, Discrimination, Disease, Disenfranchised, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Equality, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Genius, God, government, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Income, Inequality, Intimacy, Jesus, Job, Jobs, Journey, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Living Wage, Love, Meaning, Money, Oppression, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, President, Privilege, Productivity, Prophet, Proverb, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rhetoric, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Scarcity, Science, Simplicity, Slavery, Society, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, Values, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Western Civilization, Willingness, Wisdom, Women, Work, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: Not Right in the Head
I am just Not right In the head Just left Of center Heart beats For know reason To love The mathematician, physicist and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, said, “The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.” For most of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Business, Change, Courage, Crazy, Culture, Enlightenment, Exceptionalism, Future, Heart, History, Insanity, Logic, Love, Modern, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, State, Stupid, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: Chapter 58 – Isaiah
Chapter 58 – Isaiah Isaiah was a man A kind of a man More generous than his wealth Untouchable by another’s profits With a frugality beyond any poverty He was a gentle man With a purposefulness typically beyond words Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Ancient, Bible, Change, Civil Disobedience, Courage, Cruelty, Economic, Evil, Faith, Food, Freedom, God, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Injustice, Irony, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Modern, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Ode, Oppression, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Present, Prison, Quotes, Rebellion, Rich, Sabbath, Social Justice, Time, Violence, War, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Taken In
Taken In What powerful minds Can wrap themselves around Pails in comparison To the sea of mysteries Taken in By an open heart Keys to a door unlocked Incite weighting A mountain of presents Countless Un-rapt By lesser mines Fuels … Continue reading
POEM: Navy Yard Killings
Navy Yard Killings In these crazy times Of senseless killings Nations seek a return To sensible killings There are many levels of crazy. There are perhaps even more levels of crazy when it comes to killing. I am not surprised … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Business, Compassion, Crazy, Dream, Empathy, Family, God, Grace, Heart, History, Hope, Irony, Love, Military, Navy, Normal, Obama, Pacifism, Poems, Poet, Power, President, Projection, Reality, Short Poems, Slavery, Sleep, Status, Violence, War, Wisdom
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