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Tag Archives: Forgiveness
POEM: Karma Cat -28,000 Poems
This poem toys with the notion of karma and reincarnation as a vehicle for moral evolution and sum sort of cosmic justice. This poem employs as a metaphor the relationship between a karmic cat living thousands of lives encountering uncounted … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Balance, Crude, Cruelty, Culture, Evolution, Forgiveness, Genius, Hate, Holy, Hope, Jesus, Justice, Karma, Life, Loss, Luck, Meaning, Mind, Moral, Mourning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Skepticism, Society, Transcendent
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Trump Begs Forgiveness For Bungling COVID-19 Response
HAPPY April Fools Day!
Posted in Free Stuff, Political Cartoons
Tagged Farce, Foolish, Forgiveness, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Parodies
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Feminist POEM: Me Too — Now A Brand Knew Whirled Of Daughters
They rise from along history Yet much more so from her story As tectonic plates ready to serve up Unseen Earthquakes From a thousand generations reserved in silence Now a brand knew Whirled of daughters A raze of sisters A … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Catholic, Change, Civil Rights, Congress, Control, Crime, Denial, Discrimination, Employment, evangelicals, Experience, Faith, Feminist, Forgiveness, Future, Gender, Health Care, Hell, History, Holy, Immigration, Inspiration, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Me Too movement, Money, National, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Present, Progress, Sex, sexual assault, Silence, State, Status, Supreme Court, Time, Trust, Truth, Women, Workplace, Worldview
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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
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POEM: Forgiving Justice
Forgiveness can no more refute The demands of justice And its claim reguarding the lost Than justice can outflank The necessity of forgiveness To open the door for peace A heart rendering choice The difference being Securing one’s house Or … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awareness, Experience, Fear, Forgiveness, Gandhi, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Injustice, John Lennon, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Present, Questions, Reality, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Short Poems
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POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
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