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Tag Archives: Creation
POEM: More of the Sane
Going through life Various docks said You are just Going through a phrase And heeling Wood be Yores soon Enough Finally cured Of awe That is Green With envy Of what might Passably be More of the sane This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Creation, Envy, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Gift, God, Image, Insanity, Life, Love, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Rage, Recycling, Respect, Risk, Science, Security, Status, Status Quo, Truth, Willingness, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: God’s Perish
I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: The World’s Shortest Meditation
Exhale Meditate on Mother Nature Asking only What have you done for me lately? Meditation is difficult. Meditation is exponentially more difficult for each additional minute attempted. The chattering monkeys of the mind interrupt accessing the sacred silence offered by … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Control, Creation, Experience, God, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meditation, Mind, mother nature, Mystery, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Sacred, Short Poems, Silence, Skepticism, Society, Status, Status Quo
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POEM: Her Beatify Regime
She offered her life for others Occupying the known and unknown In a humanity so rare As a piece of raw flesh Nourishing friend and faux akin Wear life and dead meet Sow mysteriously Anew humanity Becoming In awe weighs … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Beauty, Children, Creation, Cruelty, Death, Domination, Evil, Experience, Future, Grace, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Nonviolent, Ode, Present, Secrets, Surprises, Time, Transcendent, Virtue, Wisdom
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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POEM: Rare Prayer
I found myself In rare prayer A genus reserved for Mother’s ilk Only doing what Kin be done In udder neglect Of that long a go Cached in Fore more sensible weighs Now wholly saved For foxholes The mass Of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Awe, Compromise, Creation, Dream, Dreams, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Future, God, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Hope, Hubris, Insecurities, Journey, Lazy, Life, Loss, Meaning, Mind, Mourning, Mystic, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Reality, Religion, Soul, Spiritual, Tar Sands, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: Know Knead to Brink
I live at the fringes At the boundary of what is and what could be Sow playful a lure At the threshold of what might not be and what should be Seriously brewed At the edge of the abyss I … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, Anxiety, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Chaos, Community, Control, Courage, Creation, Enemies, Experience, Facts, Fear, Gandhi, God, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Life, Love, Meaning, Moral, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Punishment, Reality, Rules, Sociopathy, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent
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POEM: Until The Banks Overflow
In awe of creation I am Not alone There is just us Like an ever flowing stream Until the banks overflow Into unquenchable cache And from the breast Of life Sucking I am left Nothing more Than write This short … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Creation, Greed, Life, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Scarcity, Short Poems
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POEM: Unsatisfying Kiss
A philosopher trying to ascertain God’s existence Is like a man trying to kiss himself And even less satisfying This short poem is simply a poetic attempt to get at the chasm of difference between speaking about God and actually … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Creation, Experience, Food, God, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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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
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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: Guarding God
He stoutly guarded God From an unruly world An unreveling creation And in such earnest He, and millions others, were Relieved of their doody Perhaps only a small relief For God above Yet for such bellow Refuse-ing To be passed … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authenticity, Authority, Christian, Christianity, Creation, Foolish, Freedom, Generosity, God, Grace, Harmony, Idolatry, Jesus, Joy, Law, Love, Materialist, Mercy, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Religion, Rules, Sacred, Spiritual, Time, Universe, Violence, War, Work
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POEM: Fermi Too
From Detroit to Toledo I drive by and by Monroe’s Fermi 2 Nuclear waste tower Falling over Penning only A plume of death In place of this poet A prophet taking Having called for its decommissioning Offers no comfort Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Commercial, Creation, Death, God, Insanity, Life, Loss, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Police, Power, Prophet, Protesters, Security, Toledo
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POEM: High Cost of Employment
Despite the high cost of employment It is still quite popular This short poem is a takeoff or elaboration of Will Rogers’ infamous statement: Despite the high cost of living, it’s still quite popular. As wage slavery continues largely unabated, … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Creation, Employment, Freedom, Health Care, Hope, Income, Joy, Labor, Life, Meaning, Monetize, Money, Obama, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Slavery, Time, Work, Workplace
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POEM: As The Tao Plunges
As The Tao Plunges I seek boundless horizons Beyond what can be billed What you can have Fore walls No bull work A retainer for passable living A cistern to dammed dreams Reining upon you Only knot to be brothered … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Advertising, America, Awe, Balance, Beautiful, Celebrity, Confucianism, Creation, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Harmony, Heart, History, Humanity, Identity, Image, Life, Logic, Mind, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Propriety, Questions, Reality, Risk, Rules, Sociopathy, Superficial, Tao, Time, timeless question, Vegetarianism, Western Civilization, Work, Workplace
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POEM: The Autobiography of Tao Rex
The opening lines Of the autobiography Of Tao Rex Alias Not Neil: Neil was a man of substance Who was not waiting For it to come into style If in the course of life He should cross Kingmakers And Job … Continue reading
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Tagged Busyness, Capitalism, Character, Christian, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Culture, Faith, Gift, God, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Heaven, Human Rights, Humanity, Idolatry, Jewish, Job, Justice, Life, Meaning, Mind, Modern, Murder, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Productivity, Radical, Reality, Respect, Sabbath, Sacred, Spiritual, State, Tao, Transcendent, Trust, Truth, Unity, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worldview
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POEM: If I Were King
If I were king of the world My first official act Would be to resign as king It is a common fantasy to be a powerful ruler so that you could enact your will over others. This short poem is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Christian, Creation, Democracy, Elite, Experience, God, Jesus, Law, Logic, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rules, Science, Selfish, Short Poems, Temptation, Worship
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POEM: A Rude Invitation
Violence is an invitation To more violence And a rude invitation at that Such invitations need not be returned As you might have guest Violence begets violence. Means produce ends. How can we escape this vicious cycle? Must we accept … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, America, Creation, Creativity, Crises, Experience, Freedom, Gandhi, Healing, Human Rights, Justice, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Rage, Reality, Sacrifice, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, State, Violence, War, Work, Xenophobia
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POEM: Mere Image
I look in the mirror At a real piece of work And I thank God That genius recognizes genius Sharing more than mere image I am more than the sum of the images that you can make of me. If … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Creation, Genius, God, Hubris, Humility, Image, Justice, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Transcendent, Work
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