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Tag Archives: Humanity
POEM: A Posit of Treasured
A poem to our penchant for extractive industries despoiling Mother Earth. A Posit of Treasured In our lust For lustrous alchemy And unsatiable technowizardry We dug with such graveness Nothing could scar us out of our mine We combed over … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Humanity, Life, Mother Earth
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POEM: Our Fear Less Leader
If aiding and abetting genocide does not make you unfit for the highest public office, then I don’t know what would. I am sick and tired of being told we have to vote for the least totally unfit candidate for … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Children, Citizens, Fear, Genocide, Holy, Humanity, Injustice, Law, Palestinian, Proprietary, Time
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POEM: What is De-served?
In a grievance-filled whirled, there is often attention brought to rights violations, particularly when it is one’s own rights that are violated. Of course, rights are meaningless without responsibilities to secure those rights. This is where the chasm in securing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authority, Awe, Balance, Culture, Heart, Human Rights, Humanity, Karma, Life, Moral, Reality, Respect
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POEM: People of Consequence
Our actions have consequences. We are people of consequence. The ends are determined by the means. Unfortunately, the inanity in our culture, which may, much of the time, seem harmless in it meaninglessness, meets up with epic crimes against humanity. … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Death, Genocide, Heart, Humanity, Inane, Time
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POEM: Rat Race Religion
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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Evil, Family, God, Hope, Humanity, Life, Meditation, Passion, Rat Race, Religion, Sacred, Security, Solidarity, War
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POEM: As The Whirled Goes Bye
When I look out into the world, I often get the image of chickens running around with their heads cut off. I see an addiction to “winning” that disconnects us from creation, others and ourselves, and in supreme irony, races … Continue reading
POEM: Of Yores and Mind — Owed to Buffalo State Asylum for the Mentally Insane
Last summer, while visiting Buffalo, which was a serendipitously pleasant visit (except for the bedbugs, see bed bug poem), the highlight of the visit was stumbling upon this grand architectural complex. We were staying in a cool, urban farm Airbnb … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems
Tagged Art, History, Humanity, Life, Mental Health, Mind, Ode, Prison, State, Women
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POEM: Genocide Joe
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
Posted in Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, Health Care, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Israel, Journalists, Mourning, Political, Power, President, Skepticism, Soul, Time
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POEM: On Fire and Ice — Owed to Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty U.S. air force senior airman, committed self-immolation by fire to protest the U.S. sponsored Israeli genocide of Gaza. His final cry was “Free Palestine.” On Fire and Ice: Owed to Aaron Bushnell Fire and Ice, by … Continue reading
POEM: God’s Preferential Option
I have learned that an open heart is a broken heart. A common reaction to pain, stress, or trauma is to close down as a defense mechanism. While the world has plenty of pain, stress, and trauma, a healthy response … Continue reading
POEM: Re-Nouned
I am not one for titles and hierarchical living. Of coarse, labels serve some function in relating to one another. Still, I yearn for human relations where titles of status and power do not confound our basic humanity. Thus, this … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Humanity, Power, President, Quakers, Respect, Society, Spirituality, Status
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POEM: As Humanity Reseeds
Here is an apocalyptic valentine, a final kiss planted. As Humanity Reseeds That final mourning We greet With a kiss A poetic rejoinder Transcendent graffiti Write on the apocalypse In a whirled that had Drunk The Kool-Aid® Even at that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, God, Humanity, Mourning, Transcendent, Valentine
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POEM: Bombing
Humanity is bombing. Let’s end the violence. Bombing Bombs a way Bombs aweigh Bombs a weigh Bombs away
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Humanity, Violence
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POEM: Box Set
This poem ponders the boxes that we put one another in, weather conservative or liberal, and how money and our own interests get in the weigh of our shared humanity. May we think outside our boxes and always put humanity … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Conservative, Heaven, Humanity, Liberal, Money, Politics, Risk, Welfare
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POEM: Dead Precedents
Can we let go of the stale, moribund notion that money will give us security and somehow not come between us and our humanity. Dead Precedents He could not handle change So he only dealt with folding Money And that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Humanity, Money, Security
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POEM: Winning The Stockholm Sin-drome
This is another in my series of poems on artificial intelligence. I suspect that the “wow factor” of some early AI uses will serve as a sucker punch for a largely bloodless beating. While I am skeptical of many AI … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Competition, Crazy, Death, Environment, Fear, Humanity, Learning, Love, Money, Moral, Poems, Poor, Society, Sustainable, Technology, Work, Worship
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POEM: Yours to Deicide
Wile it doesn’t make cents for some, I see humanity is one. I strongly suspect that there is only one side. Thus, in a religious sense, any won that kills other children of God is ungodly. In some sense, killing … Continue reading
Starving Palestinians — How Compassion Ate Gazans
President Biden’s posed compassion and the U.S.-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is starving the civilian population. The generations-long military occupation, the 16-year blockade on Gaza, and the current months-long bombing campaign has created a crucible of death in Gaza. … Continue reading
POEM: Screw the All Gore Rhythm
One of my monikers in life is “screw the algorithm,” in rebellion to the lifeless calculations that often subtract from humanity and divide humanity. This poem is such a rebel cry. Screw the All Gore Rhythm The death machine is … Continue reading
POEM: I’m Mutable Soul
Is humanity a rounding error? You be the judge — or not. I’m Mutable Soul I wondered Agin and agin Do I have a soul Imbued in this dust and water Sow muddied In regard To such square metaphysical ponderings … Continue reading