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Tag Archives: Gratitude
POEM: Canary in a Coal Mine
Canaries were used in coal mines as an early detection system for toxic gasses. Canaries are particularly susceptible to methane and carbon monoxide. Canaries will get sick or die before it affects humans, miners. Still, the miners have to respect … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Gratitude, Life, Respect, Time, Vulnerability
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POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”
Community organizing can be difficult and thankless. I am grateful for those who do such work. Thanks! Still, at times, won’s work can become a bearin’ place, yielding cynicism and skepticism, even of those who appreciate you. Tossing aside potential … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cautionary Tale, Community, Cynicism, Generosity, Gratitude, Love, Quotes, Skepticism, Work
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POEM: A Fete for Awe Time
Whatever time we have is a gift, the greatest of which is the present. Now is the the time for gratitude. Now is the time for love. Now is the time to dance. A Fete for Awe Time Is it … Continue reading
POEM: Caged in Key West
This poem is a glimpse into my somewhat demented mind. I am not really sure what inspired this poem. This poem is not based on a real story. Nonetheless, here it is. Poetry happens. Please feel free to not be … Continue reading
POEM: Watery Grave
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
LOVE POEM: The Her and Now
The Her and Now Her gentle generosity Levels a see of petty lacks Her abundant kindness Overwhelms any insecurity Her abiding faith Shrinks fear two size Her steadfast patience Outlasts wistful worries Her joy Outshines any mourn Her bounding gratitude … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Awe, Consumption, Faith, Fear, Generosity, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Kindness, Life, Love, Love Poems, Patience, Poet, Poetry, Soul, Valentine
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POEM: God’s Lazy As
God’s Lazy As Thanks for nudging me From oblivion In too existence A billion years Of Sundays Ought too due Accept fore sustaining me Every nanosecond What have you Done form me Lately I find a deep source of gratitude … Continue reading
POLITICAL POEM: The Whole Damn Nation
Oh no No no A nation divided And so so partial to the whirled As who elect Who to rule Over US The select select Culled before we can even vote In the worst OKs scenario Effaced with know choice … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Citizens, Courage, Debt, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dream, Dreams, Freedom, Gratitude, Harmony, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, Imperialism, Justice, Media, Mother Earth, National, Nature, Ode, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, State, Third Party, Unity, Vocation, Voting, Wealth
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POEM: Hardily A Vacation
She was on Vocation Delving into the wildness The better part of reality Unseen in noonday Or the shadowy bosom of the human heart To gather presence Without plundering And only after the day’s calling With singular peering Return dumb … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Gratitude, Heart, Joy, Life, Play, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Simplicity, Vocation
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POEM: Life As A Breeze
Life peers to me As a gentle breeze With fragrant harmonies In the tenderest victories Know longer bought a bout by yielding hope Prospecting in rock Dead set, vane certainties Or coarse inclinations While a sole breath moves through me … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Character, Cynical, Cynicism, Generosity, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Skepticism, Success, Time, Willingness
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POEM: Beauty Us Aging
There is a beauty In aging A reservoir Of singular moments And glistening years In ignorance passed Belying youth In wrinkled knows At untaut skin In the game Wear even The future rests Just In time As quiet A scene … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Awe, Beauty, Blessing, Experience, Future, Grace, Gratitude, Learning, Life, Loss, Poems, Poetry, Time, Wisdom
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POEM: My Proffered Busyness
My proffered busyness Is riding poetry Wherever It takes me And even as sow many Times come a bout The heist spot in the whirled Strong-armed by incoming Dealing with lives steel As sell sum Pilfer everything As if Following … Continue reading
POEM: A Ledged Fall
The leaf let go Releasing awe that had given it life In what could have bin A swan dive Or a butterfly prancing But it was doing its own thing Lining up for know one Little did it no But … Continue reading
POEM: Unfare
Weighter Truth be tolled Whoever’s pain the bill I’d like a reseat At the table This poem addresses the truism that life is not fair. I have spent most of my life and part of most days working to address … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Citizens, Consumption, Creation, Disenfranchised, Domination, Economic, Equality, Female, Gratitude, Humanity, Justice, LGBT, Life, Patriarchy, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Present, Privilege, Respect, Short Poems, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Society, Solidarity, Truth, Work
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POEM: Inspiring Life Itself
Hear I am My life Unmeasured By awe but Smiles And ours alone A forum of love Only known by agape Sometimes taken as dope And every sow often Be held as a parent Breathlessness Be gotten heir Inspiring life … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Creation, Dancing, Experience, Gratitude, Humanity, Life, Love, Market, Nature, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Skepticism
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POEM: Gimps of Heaven
To the skies lifted The lairs of heaven unfold In speechless beauty That would deify description My eyes and hands Razed freely Embracing awe That heaven was packing In mirror seconds To be Thanking That God Of the quick And … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Experience, God, Grace, Gratitude, Heaven, Image, Life, Poems, Poetry, Present, Soul
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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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