Tag Archives: Life

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: The Hole of Life

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Top Pun

Sometimes life leaves you only shitty choices. Of coarse, in many cases, making at least some choice is better than doing nothing or living in fear. Fortunately, whether we make a choice or not, a new set of choices arise, … Continue reading →

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POEM: As The Whirled Goes Bye

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Gypsy Mother E

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Top Pun

Mother Earth has treated us well. Let’s treat her as our one and only. Gypsy Mother E We had A Gypsy mother Who lived As 93 million miles from the light of her life Who loved Her wayward children More … 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: Of Yores and Mind — Owed to Buffalo State Asylum for the Mentally Insane

Posted on March 12, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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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: A Confession — For the Birds

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Top Pun

I don’t have a lot of regrets in life. Still, one of the stupidest and cruelest things I ever did was as a kid when I shot dead with a BB gun a bunch of birds hanging out in a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Get Over It

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Top Pun

We are a far cry from Patrick Henry’s infamous cry, “Give me liberty or give me death,” which highlights one’s ultimate willingness to put all of your skin in the game. Today’s cry is more of a whine, “Give me … 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: Can You Ever Halve Enough?

Posted on February 22, 2024 by Top Pun

Can we ever afford to kill one another? It certainly seems sow. Unfortunately, when an awareness arises of the steep cost of killing, it is often too late. Sadly, we may halve our life and eat it too. Can You … Continue reading →

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POEM: Calling Awe Taxidermists

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Top Pun

I suspect each of us has encountered fakes, stiffs, who too routinely fail to treat others humanely, seemingly deadened by their own, lifeless stuff. Thus, this poem: Calling Awe Taxidermists He was his own Worst faux And stiff Was his … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Weigh of Our Great Grandchildren

Posted on February 19, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem employs the metaphor of using irresponsible and unsustainable credit that must be paid by future generations. Externalizing the true costs from the present sticker price of our way of life by ignoring environmental costs incurred by fossil fuels … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dogged Reasoning

Posted on February 11, 2024 by Top Pun

This a poem highlighting the barren view of life that rugged reasoning can impose on the awesome experience of consciousness. Life is much more than sterile propagation of the specious. Dogged Reasoning He wood Knot know Consciousness If he Saw … Continue reading →

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POEM: Heir to a Thousand Generations

Posted on February 10, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is about recognizing and appreciating that we rest on the shoulders of a thousand generations and that each moment can take inspiration from this long arc of our existence, powering us forward in ways worthy of our ancestors. … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Incalculable Weighs to Prey

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem ponders the fact that hardships and trauma can lead people away from religious and spiritual seekings as well as leading them to such seeking. I find that while darkness can be powerful, even overwhelming, light has a way … Continue reading →

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POEM: Life Keeps

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Top Pun

I find comfort in the persistent reality that life keeps happening. As I keep learning to let go, I find that life flows more gently to whatever the next thing is that life offers up. I continue to be amazed … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Run Down on Lifting Up

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a call to avoid running down those who seek to lift up. The poem has a tip of the hat to Dorothy Day and her infamous quote, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be … Continue reading →

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POEM: Soul Sushi

Posted on January 25, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem ponders the “water we live in” as most humans are routinely heedless of their lives deep ending on eating flesh to survive. Soul Sushi Once upon a time Creatures of the see Looking up A barrel In countered … Continue reading →

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POEM: Call Me Warren

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Top Pun

In life, I have learned that going down rabbit holes in not voidable. I have learned to welcome them as portals to new worlds. Regarding the title, for those who may be overly-citified, a warren is an area where rabbits … Continue reading →

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