Tag Archives: Change

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: Straddling Two Realms

Posted on February 23, 2024 by Top Pun

I am an infinitely bigger fan of possibilities than probabilities. Possibilities change the trajectory of what is; all else is mere calculation. Straddling Two Realms He ate possibilities for breakfast Awe ways Kneading more room And inevitable movements He straddled … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dead Precedents

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Top Pun

Can we let go of the stale, moribund notion that money will give us security and somehow not come between us and our humanity. Dead Precedents He could not handle change So he only dealt with folding Money And that … Continue reading →

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POEM: Catchy Zzzz’s

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Top Pun

I see much of life as a struggle to maintain a vigorous consciousness and cultivate a vital, life-affirming conscience. I see the powers that be as offering a vain, numbing “contentment,” free of inconvenient or uncomfortable realities. Security becomes distancing … Continue reading →

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POEM: Matrix™ Evolution®

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a riff on on the Matrix movie franchise, of which one was entitled, “Matrix Revolutions.” This poem plays with the notion of incremental change as often inadequate when facing epic existential choices, and the daunting all-ternative. Matrix™ … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Die is Cast

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Top Pun

Life is a gamble. Play the roll you got, or the roll will play you. The Die is Cast So it is said And can knot be Taken aback The die is cast Weather mettle mulled Or fortune’s gambol As … Continue reading →

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POEM: I Adore

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Top Pun

I Adore I stumble up On the hows of awe people Soully to learn I adore That witch awe of life Is hinged And I am holy framed The truth of which I cannot bolt I am udderly dumb founded … Continue reading →

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POEM: Destiny is as Character Duhs

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: The Rode Less Travailed

Posted on October 30, 2023 by Top Pun

While I have a grate deal of confidence in my well-founded opinions, I can get lost in sharing these opinions with those who have no interest in listening to them. Even if I am right, the shadow of self-righteousness can … Continue reading →

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POEM: Flame In The Darkness

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Top Pun

Hope springs eternal. That’s just, the way it glows. Flame In The Darkness There is a flame In the darkness Awe weighs more Than mirror fact This flame is both Before and after See change As one Better Than book … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Top Pun

Violence often seems to be second nature, obvious or inescapable. Perhaps violence is inescapable because it begets itself, setting up new rounds of consequences where further violence begs further violence. Violence begetting itself may just be the manifestation of the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Conversion Raiding

Posted on September 17, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem contrasts two opposing world views, moral versus amoral, right versus might, serving God versus money, etc., etc. This poem presents the question of how won might convert the currency of one world view to the other. Of coarse, … Continue reading →

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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: 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: Heir Conditioning a Burning Planet

Posted on August 12, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a playful romp of mixed metaphors surrounding the destruction of our planet through climate change. May Mother Earth and future generations find relief from this onslaught. Heir Conditioning a Burning Planet When the empire culls You out … Continue reading →

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POEM: Political I con

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Top Pun

Here is some poetic justice for Donald Trump, aka The Don, an unworthy political icon. May we learn from his massive cautionary tail. Political I con From Fifth Avenue He shot Too star dumb All tolled Knot exactly a reality … Continue reading →

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POEM: Base Squared

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Top Pun

One of my recent pet peeves is cable TV news in what seems to be am over-focus on Donald Trump, to the exclusion of the rest of the many intriguing and important things going on in the world. Ironically, these … 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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POEM: The World and Change

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Top Pun

This is a poem of hope and resistance. I find it easy to ponder all of the scary challenges the world offers. I sometimes need to remind myself that a deep understanding of how the world doesn’t work also comes … Continue reading →

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POEM: That Clarity Amidst Blood

Posted on February 11, 2020 by

That Clarity Amidst Blood The tides of change are rising From a tsunami of tears The salt of the earth Uniting with water The solution that is life That clarity amidst blood And where souls hit the street Awash with … Continue reading →

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