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Tag Archives: Awe
POEM: A World Worth Fighting For
Once agin His eyes went Threw me Populating lonely A whirled Of perpetrators and victims Bad asses and good ass Of which I was won Haunted by wonder In what kind Of world Would we halve Been friends Now that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Courage, Humanity, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Risk, Solidarity
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POEM: That Cursory Savor
Life As present Did not add up As if A zero Sum game The passed getting bigger The future getting smaller That good buy That eminent lessen As holy for gone As refuse As waive that fortune Having only Too … Continue reading
POEM: Devil’s Advocate
He was invited too serve As devil’s advocate But he prudently recognized That the job was utterly filled Declining the precipitous prize And elevated gratuitousness At one point or another, we are each tempted to take up, the downside of an … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Awe, Change, Evil, Genius, Job, Play, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Skepticism, Status, Status Quo, Temptation
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POLITICAL POEM: Fighting Exclusively
It was his thing Fighting exclusively Battles he could win His crowning I deal Never finding himself On-the-cide of losers Whirled why’d Naught ails But win Filling his sales Whatever He could bye A captain of destiny In habiting the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Absolute Security, Amorality, Awe, Business, Capitalism, Change, Character, Culture, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dreams, Equality, Ethical, Ethics, Greed, Heart, Helplessness, Hope, Human Rights, Ideals, Justice, Loss, Megalomania, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, President, Privilege, Sacred, Security, skin in the game, Sociopathy, Solidarity, Status, Success, Suffering, Truth, Values
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump U Verses Screw U
O pose The establishment Of his style Outside is in Down with up As drive in reveres “I love sow and sow more than anyone” And awe That is Con men Selling Brooklyn bridges To no where That is good … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Chaos, Creativity, Democracy, Donald Trump, government, Hope, Humanity, Labor, Love, Moral, Nationalism, Oligarchy, Partisan, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, Resistance, Rich, Security, Society, Solidarity, Unity, Women, Xenophobia
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POEM: Know Deal
He offered Me All the secrets of the world And being more Or less ambitious I went for a few secrets Not of this world This poem is a tip of the hat to a famous Thomas Aquinas quote: “The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Freedom, Humanity, Life, Mind, Pi, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Secrets, Short Poems, Soul, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Unite In The Write
Poets of the world unite Delivering a bill of writes To the regressive elite And overcompensating narcissists May the love of word in deed Translate into a raging river of love Pounding against that professed shore thing Strait from the … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, Short Poems, Solidarity, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Heir Conditioning
As things went south South goes north Truly Global warning is real There is an arising From the fires in bellies And home fires burning In efface of doors closed Windows open Those crazy few Committed Those sober many Just … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Climate Change, Crazy, Donald Trump, Farce, Injustice, Justice, Mother Earth, Mourning, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Right-Wing, Solidarity, Wisdom
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POLITICAL POEM: In Daze Not To Follow
The plantation had fallen Into this repair As fore many Present Work Over and above The well, known Used Too deep scars And familiar ditches dug Subject to an other privilege However bound Too knew found freedom And worldwide travails … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Courage, Cynicism, Donald Trump, Experience, Freedom, Future, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Present, Privilege, Questions, Racism, Reality, Solidarity, Stupid, Work
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POEM: A Star To Be Borne — People Knot Looking Up
In dozin’s of dozin’s They were engrossed Fueled time and time agin In con founding sow a ware Their tension helled by their idol busyness In pitches black to looming executors As orderly As dark Knot knowing her Under stand … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Busyness, History, Holy, Humanity, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Soul, Time, Virtual Reality, Worship
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POEM: Left To His Own Devices
Left to his own Devices He was apped to cynicism And awe of the most virtual of realities Things looking up People looking down This poem touches upon one of my pet peeves: electronic devices preempting direct human contact and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Technology
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POEM: Sum How Present In A Stupefying Flash
Creation groans In pregnant expectancy More than Any one Ever anew In a singular couplet The quest in And the call out For who All Abel to hear Blood from ground Crying in relation To the curse of can and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Creation, Justice, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Solidarity
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POEM: Colloquial He
1. He lived 2. In a particular time 3. In a particular place And one Of his many editors Proferred the generic claim Putting fourth That he rote Colloquially And to this brand of righting He gave his highest, a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Colloquial, Funny, Hope, Money, Poems, Poetry, Reverence, Time, Trust
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POEM: Hell In A Handbasket
I would rather live… In a trailer That proverbial mobile homme Seeing stars when roofs are razed And nothing but realty at my back As awe of creation is present As I am Looked down upon Wading patiently fore that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Bible, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Culture, Evil, Existential, Faith, Fear, Foolish, God, Happiness, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Job, Life, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Present, Prison, Rules, Secrets, Silence, Soul, Status, Success, Time, Willingness, Wisdom
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POEM: Just Dew It
Round Mid night Countless drops Fall free In to the loving alms Of Mother Earth Making a mud pact With trees, meadow, and flower To dew wet sow ever They thirst for Life has an incredible capacity for renewal. As … Continue reading
POEM: Unforgettable
She was a spark Spanning but instant generations Clothed in stardust Naked to that place before birth and after death As thought of God Less of a dream More of a smile Merging within that space-time continuum On the face … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Death, Defense, Dream, Experience, God, Hope, Joy, Life, Love, Mystical, Nature, Present, Time, Vulnerability
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HOPE POEM: Why God Invented Dark
God invented dark As a respite From high noon That searing sun Of which mortal men are made To see Sow much more Innumerable lofty stars Unseen in mere day dreams Beyond won’s highest hopes Awe at once A mist … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Control, Death, Diversity, Donald Trump, Dreams, Existential, Fear, God, Heart, Hope, Life, Mind, Moral, Nature, Opposites, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Reality, Skepticism, Sleep, Time, Unity, Values
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POEM: Unleashed
As anger and grief morphs Into the habits and vagaries of daily life The heart is circled by its waggin’s In loo of revolutions more roil As if Too be stuck In The mettle Only to be Haunted by cursory … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anger, Authoritarian, Awe, Balance, Change, Consciousness, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Elections, Future, Heart, Hope, Justice, Life, Loss, Misogyny, Muslim, Muslims, National, Nationalism, Outrage, Poems, Poetry, Power, Racism, Revolutionary, Sexism, sexual assault, Solidarity, State, Supreme Court, Surreal, Time, Voting, Women, Work, Xenophobia
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POEM: Gordian Knot — Owed To Mother Hope
Reality can be a mother Halving given Cynicism wide berth Big brother Too hope A mist Crying incessantly And the crapping of won’s pants Entrapped Flanked by sterility and fertility Fenced buy utility and futility Until something Something all inspiring … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Alienation, Argument, Awe, Big Brother, Cynicism, Death, Future, Gordian knot, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Play, Poet, Present, Reality, Sartre, Solidarity, Truth
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