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Tag Archives: Conundrum
POEM: Owed to Muhammad Ali
I wrote this poem after watching, again, my favorite documentary of all time: When We Were Kings. This film is about the leadup and spectacle that is known as the “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire, the heavyweight boxing title … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Conundrum, Creativity, Heart, History, Life, Poet, Poetry, Prophet, Religion, Time, Transcendent
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POEM: Snugly Lodged
In case you were wondering why anxiety and fear sometimes seem to creep up on us humans… Snugly Lodged I was wresting Quiet comfortably In my nice warm bed Pondering the seeming conundrum Of why wee humans are So offed … Continue reading
POEM: To Beat a Conundrum, Or Knot
Sometimes we have the key to our own imprisonment and don’t realize it. To Beat a Conundrum, Or Knot A cross Countless sentries Cool cats have found themselves In Schrödinger’s box Or not Know lock And no key Or no … Continue reading
POEM: The Dumbest Thing I Ever Metaphor
This poem is a tribute to the dumbfounding reality that speaking about God is extremely dangerous, almost as dangerous as not speaking about God. I am perpetually drawn to contemplating ultimate concerns, which naturally outline one’s respective, or irrespective, views … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Conundrum, Fundamentalism, God, Holy, Nature, Reality, Religion, Spirituality
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POEM: Beating The Conundrum
Blessed be the peacemakers. It will take awe we have to secure peace. May the fog of war give weigh to the tsunami of love rising in the see of humanity. Beating The Conundrum The peacemakers cried Everybody for everybody … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conundrum, Enemies, Humanity, Insanity, Love, Peacemakers, War
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Customer Service POEM: On Hold
Holed for service A fool 40 minutes Before it curse to me Awe this while Writing a verse And now Awe is write with the whirled And still Feeling somewhat loopy With Muzak As the soundtrack of my life A … Continue reading
POEM: Promedica My Ass — Owed To Branding
Logos used Too mean Know ledge Like that age owed ad vice Would you jump off a bridge If every won ails did As in sayin’ Bye your good will As money oozes from the non-prophet, health care (sic) system … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Family, Gandhi, Genius, Health Care, Justice, Life, Living Wage, Love, Money, Mourning, Poet, Poetry, ProMedica, Prophet, Proprietary, Propriety, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Tao, Time, Toledo
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MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth
MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth But for the slip of the tongue There could be Having Been given The slip of paper With a key Too incarcerated truth Knot to be Read aloud There is know God Many of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Conundrum, Experience, God, Life, Meaning, Silence, Spiritual, Tao, Truth
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POEM: Answering The Call
He was called Into the warden’s office The best cell In the big house Next to the judges chamber Of commerce Inhumanity Chain standing in A stile Rhyming with orange The nature of bars and steal Overtly concrete Knot no’ing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Civil Disobedience, Conundrum, Freedom, Humanity, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Reality, Society, Soul, Work
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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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Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
If you want to make sense of the failure of neoliberalism, as typified by Hillary Clinton, and its vomiting up of proto-fascist leaders like Donald Trump, then author and journalist Chris Hedges nails it again, in this piece, Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Authoritarian, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Children, Christian, Citizens, Commercial, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Conundrum, Cruelty, Culture, Cynical, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Economic, Elite, Enemies, Failure, Fascism, Heaven, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Hypermasculinity, Hypocritical, Identity, Ideology, Integrity, Justice, Liberal, Misogyny, Mitt Romney, Moral, Narcissism, National, Nazi, Neoliberalism, Police, Political, Politics, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Rage, Reality, Religious, Republican, Rhetoric, Security, State, Superficial, Trust, Truth, Violence, War, Women
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POEM: Peppered With Violence
Bland and tasteless souls Often pepper with violence The salt of the earth Writing a vicious cycle In rehashed seasonings Winners of discontent The Fall’s harvest Yet even sow Hope springing eternal And summers of love As have know choice … Continue reading
POEM: Halving No Interest
Wile a capital idea to sum I halve no interest In how you make a living Rather That which Makes you Come alive I would dare say that most of life lost is in the chasm between making a living … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, America, Art, Conundrum, Creation, Dream, Environment, Evolution, Experience, Food, Haiti, Health Care, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Liberal, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, Truth, Violence
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POEM: Signs of The Tines
At the White House speak easy Blah blah blah blah blah blah The media drinks it up At a mine-blowingly vapid clip In the mean time On the plantation Grounds to a halt Surrounded by offense In arose guardin’ At … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Authority, Citizens, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Constitutional Rights, Conundrum, Democracy, Demonstrators, Draft Registration, Evil, Existential, Farce, Free Speech, God, government, Grace, Law, Law Enforcement, Lawyer, Meaning, Media, Military, Modern, Moral, National, National Security, Nationalism, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Police, Political, Politics, Power, Protests, Rage, Religion, Resistance, Security, State, Status, Superficial, Supreme Court, Time
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POEM: In What Seams Faultless
At certain moments I am left In a world Beyond That which is My own Speechless In what seams faultless Only to be Hereafter Unleashed After awe Unforked tongue Speaking freely To anyone who can Here Experiencing such presence Unfrayed … Continue reading
POEM: Ebola US Over
Ebola US over When fear metes science When we no what too due Still, rabidly executing our will As wee act in sanity Cheap as rationed rationality Upscale absurdity As some fret butler Frankly red-faced, not giving a damn As … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, America, Conundrum, Courage, Culture, Disease, Enemies, Environment, Experience, Fear, Hope, Literacy, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Present, Prevention, Public Health, Reality, Risk, Science, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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