Tag Archives: Hope

POEM: I’m Mortal Hope

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Top Pun

Yet another poem about hope, in awe its fragile and enduring nature. I’m Mortal Hope Is it passable To murder hope What kind Of mettle Might it take Gold Silver Or mirror bronze As hope springs fourth Eternally Its resurrection … Continue reading →

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POEM: It Turns Out That Hope Is

Posted on August 13, 2024 by Top Pun

Hope is as persistent as cynicism — even more sow. It Turns Out That Hope Is Hope turned out To be a stale mate Or sow he helled Hope could not breach His impenetrable armor of cynicism Fretting over awe … Continue reading →

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POEM: Hope Ungraduated

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Top Pun

This is a poem that plays with the fact that I graduated from Hope College. I have literally graduated from hope! Of course, hope is not simply something that can be metered out in a “graduated” fashion, and neither hoard … Continue reading →

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POEM: Rat Race Religion

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a meditation on the banality of evil that arises from good people doing nothing when it comes knocking at their doorstep. This accomplice-ment is aided by a blinding enmeshment in a rat race offering, justification for ignoring … Continue reading →

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POEM: This Poet’s Prayer

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem reflects my basic spirituality of ever moving toward One’s vision of the good, even as my view is a dim reflection. The One thing that I can judge my progress on is my commitment to this path yearning … Continue reading →

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POEM: Optimism — A Buy Product of Hope

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Top Pun

There is a difference between optimism and hope. Optimism is about the inertia and trajectory of facts on the ground, while hope is a metaphysical reality that seeps into life of awe kinds amidst a dizzying array of means. Hope … Continue reading →

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POEM: An Eve with Netanyahu

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Top Pun

As President Biden campaigns on a pro-democracy platform against the corrupt Donald Trump, he is tag teaming genocide in Gaza with his long-time friend, the corrupt Israeli PM Netanyahu, the “Bibi” brain and heart of the military onslaught and deadly … Continue reading →

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POEM: Genocide Joe

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Top Pun

Monday mourning. Last week President Joe Biden spoke of being hopeful about a ceasefire deal in Gaza. I must confess, I scheduled posting this last week, expecting the likely outcome of genocide unabated and genocide Joe abidin’ his time. I … Continue reading →

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POEM: Reckon Knot

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Top Pun

This world is a mournful place. I hope I bring to this life more laughing than crying. Reckon Knot I laugh I cry I laugh To keep from crying Still I cry As I am Awe ready Moved to laugh … Continue reading →

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POEM: Which Neighbor is a Keeper?

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is about racism and nativism, our propensity to dehumanize the other, to write other humans off, to find room aplenty to throw under the bus or imprison in won weigh or an other. Which Neighbor is a Keeper? … Continue reading →

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POEM: From God Slips To My Years

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is yet another poem about the experience of writing poems, or transcribing them from a muse. From God Slips To My Years In what manor May we discuss the whether A poet or a stenographer In plaque-able quest in … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dammed Hope

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem employs a metaphor of a remote mountain lake brimming with hope, exasperatingly difficult to access, only to be topped with an even more secluded mountain valley hiding away awe of the lost senses of humor of uncounted folks. … Continue reading →

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POEM: That Leader Ship

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem during the last Trump administration, of which I work and pray will be the last Trump administration. That Leader Ship What if Everybody Did that Wading among prophetless idles Spinning their wills Ennui go But how … Continue reading →

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POEM: Hanging Buy A Thread

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is a Monday poem for those who may be feeling that impending work weak and need a bit of fortification. Hanging Buy A Thread There he hung Buy a thread Of hope Peering mid heir Soully able Too due … Continue reading →

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POEM: Halve Truth

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a parody of the infamous “You can’t handle the truth” military courtroom speech from the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men. You can view the original speech here. Many have killed and died in wars over half-truths … Continue reading →

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POEM: Monstrous Hope

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Top Pun

Hope is an awesome thing, not for the timid. If we don’t find hope, hope may just hunt us down and swallow us whole. Monstrous Hope Hope is some kind Of monster Who metes us awe With gaping jaw Where … Continue reading →

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POEM: Whether Proof Hope

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is another meditation on hope, timeless and timely. Hope seems to have a life of its own, and seams intent to share that life. Sew spread the knews. Whether Proof Hope Hope is its own kind Of fuelishness … Continue reading →

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POEM: Tears in My Soul

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a mournful riff on the destructive grievance politics of the so-called right. Of course, what is left is left, with love and hope remaining to knit life wince agin. Tears in My Soul Where divides multiply As … 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: 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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