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Tag Archives: Metaphors
Compassion Dusted
U.S. President Joe Biden has billed an image of a compassionate man. With the demonization of Palestinians and the full-throated backing of genocide in Gaza, any image as a compassionate is bankrupt. Compassion Dusted Thinking it’s just Biden time For … Continue reading →
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged America, Compassion, Control, Demonization, Enemies, Future, Hell, Hospitality, Hubris, Human Race, Image, Israel, Metaphors, Modern, Political, Power, President, Propaganda, Time, Violence
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POEM: To Know a Veil
This poem is about desiring God, and for the spirit to fully incarnate in flesh. I have long thought that the best metaphors for understanding God is through parenthood, the unconditional love for a child, and through being lovers, desiring … Continue reading →
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Egalitarian, God, Love, Meditation, Metaphors
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POEM: Heir Conditioning a Burning Planet
This poem is a playful romp of mixed metaphors surrounding the destruction of our planet through climate change. May Mother Earth and future generations find relief from this onslaught. Heir Conditioning a Burning Planet When the empire culls You out … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems
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Tagged Awe, Change, Climate Change, Commercial, Future, Metaphors, Mother Earth
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POEM: Human Beans In A Chili World
What’s too like To be Human beans In a chili world Offering ourselves As nourishing fare In the face of Ingrate full consumers Somehow besting Our pre-sumptuous purpose Of going to seed And razing our own Only to be Food … Continue reading →
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Awareness, Awe, Death, Evil, Food, Heart, Journey, Life, Meaning, Metaphors, Ode, Paradoxes, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Projection, Proverb, Reality, Resurrection, Sacrifice, Self-Awareness, skin in the game
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POEM: Namaste
Who dares ax Why I am Sow meta for As the spear it in me Razes up Too meat the spirit in you This poem is an ode to my favorite version of the greeting “namaste:” may the spirit in … Continue reading →
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Beautiful, Creation, Crude, Cynicism, Death, Dogma, Hope, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Metaphors, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Resurrection, Sacred, Short Poems, Spiritual, Wisdom
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POEM: Howie Tried And True
Too fine The word That was lust to him As a gossamer knight he Oh Howie tried And true Enough Wading in silence Only to peer Parently from know wear To meat His every knead Too fine Word Maid flesh … Continue reading →
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Tagged Awe, Christian, Creativity, Experience, God, Heart, Humility, Incarnation, Life, Love, Metaphors, Muse, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Religious, Sacred, Short Poems, Silence, Theology, Work
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POEM: Boulder Climate Change Strategy
Know madder What The body politic wants Wee are A given Political climate change Fueled agin Buy dollareds Hot air And cheep solutions Trapped in a net worth A slew of zeroes Proffering barren fruit Taking Their cut Wile the … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Authority, Change, Citizens, Climate Change, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Joke, Metaphors, Mock, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Reality, Respect, Sustainable
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POEM: Wanting Amor
It is never Enough I want amor! This very short poem, like most of my poems, can be read (at least) two ways. The first line, It is never, can be read as one not getting love, declaring Enough, and … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Attitude, Awe, Gift, Gratitude, Heart, Life, Love, Metaphors, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Short Poems
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POEM: That Wholly Lessen
Kneeling before Mother Earth Shattering Knews Buy sum mirror mortals That scant except abundance Farced too Under stand That wholly lessen Taut As awe for one And won for all And what too due To be apprehended Those borne too … Continue reading →
Posted in Health, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Abundance, Ancient, Awe, Climate Change, Environment, Environmental, Envy, Farce, Greed, Labor, Law, Life, Meaning, Metaphors, Mom, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Possessions, Power, Powers that be, Public Health, Respect, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Free Verse
You are trying Too figure out Perhaps even singularly a verse Paying sum game Never getting A head Dis integrating As a metaphysical meting Of meter and anti-meter Unmoved Object And unstoppable farce With unending meanings Crying Help Lessly under … Continue reading →
POEM: How Ever Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb
In his rock Solid doubt Thomas Had herd rumors Of unflailing love Abuzz of hope so high If only To find himself Quite In the dark Wear time stops To the ever sow gentle Beating To a singular conundrum As … Continue reading →
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Tagged Art, Awe, Cautionary Tale, Character, Conundrum, Creation, Evolution, God, Heart, Hope, Hospitality, Irony, Life, Love, Meditation, Metaphors, Mind, Modern, Nature, Pi, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Police, Reality, Religion, Skepticism, Society, Spiritual, Time, Truth
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POEM: The Taoist Dowager
The Taoist dowager Bends gently to that before her Inclined to bless Those below Indivisible To the high and mighty Wholly touched Braille beyond the see Maid of tender harmonies Composed Of one, a chord The maladies of life joyfully … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alienation, Atheist, Attitude, Awe, Balance, Buddhist, Christian, Consciousness, Conundrum, Culture, Death, Denial, Enlightenment, Equality, Existential, Experience, Freedom, Gift, God, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Harmony, History, Holy, Image, Life, Metaphors, Mind, Modern, Muse, Nature, Ode, Opposites, Patience, Perspective, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Sartre, Selfish, Selfless, Tao, Time, Universe, Virtue, Vulnerability, Wisdom
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POEM: Double Oh Seven Up
Double Oh Seven Up He bought That violence works Buy strong Wield men Where once lust Now found Like some secret Agent of change As if Like first see’d Bared in some virgin soil Unable to grow any further Only … Continue reading →
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Tagged Addiction, Change, Enlightenment, Inspiration, Life, Meaning, Metaphors, Narcissism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Sex, Sexuality, Soul, Spiritual, Substance Abuse, Success, Superficial, Violence, War
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Owed to Knot Rhyming
The ability to rhyme Is not my paradigm I brandish cacophonies To unleash new homeys Word And soul full plurality Welcoming that which can knot Be beat My poetry is offbeat. That is not to say that it doesn’t have … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alliteration, Ancient, Cognitive Dissonance, Conventional Wisdom, Genius, Heart, Holy, Metaphors, Myths, Poems, Poetry, Power, Rhyme, Short Poems, Soul, Truth, Universe, Wisdom
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POEM: On a Roll!
In my write mind I am on a roll Plain and simple And there is nothing butter On that! I haven’t published a poem in a while. This is because this week the muse has had other plans for me. … Continue reading →
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems
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Tagged Awe, Experience, Funny, Genius, Life, Metaphors, Mind, Muse, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: Word Jonesing
She said Your poetry seems like a lot of work I said It’s less wordsmithing And more wordjonesing Or sew it would seam There is little doubt that reading my poetry takes some work. It is commonplace in my poetry … Continue reading →
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems
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Tagged Alliterate, Culture, Experience, Healing, Literate, Meaning, Metaphors, Muse, Passion, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Puns, Short Poems, Transcendent, Work
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POEM: Eternal Seasoning
A house divided soon Falls From fair-weathered friends A summer fallowing Hommés united spring eternal From perennial buds After a parent winter So goes The eternal seasoning A savor for all The whirled This short poem is about hope, friendship, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Authority, Change, Conflict, Congress, Control, Courage, Democracy, Depression, Direct Democracy, Extinction, Future, Gandhi, government, History, Hope, Justice, Love, Metaphors, Mind, Money, Moral, Mourning, Nature, Occupy Wall Street, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Recycling, Religious, Short Poems, Slavery, Social Movements, State, Status, Time, Truth, Universe, Wall Street, War, Work
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POEM: Laundered Hearts
Laundered Hearts On those journeys Through dark Night Watches Ending only With mourning Broken Finding yourself Alone With a ponderous God Separating darks and lights Threatened by grays Hanging on by hairs and threads Frayed Washed out Left Only Facing … Continue reading →
POEM: Hard on the Poor
Hard on the Poor Our moral compass Goes south Skewering Those below Under lyin’ Poverty abashed Without abjections Needle US Too say Pricks Hand shakers And grand standers Razing just for fund He’ll freeze over Before changing any position Undertaking … Continue reading →
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Tagged Awe, Congress, government, Harmony, Karma, Life, Metaphors, Money, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Poverty, Privatizing, Progress, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Rich, Stupid, Violence, Wisdom
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POEM: Synctretised Swimming
Synctretised Swimming Unearth as it is in heaven Land and see The evolution Of God’s creation And learn Who or what Our teachers be In theology schooled Like fish in water Expounding on thirst All the wile Shitting where they … Continue reading →
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Tagged Analogy, Catholic, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conflict, Creation, Culture, Diversity, Epistemology, Evolution, Faith, God, Heart, Heaven, Heresy, Holy, Hubris, Jesus, Jewish, Metaphors, Modern, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Religion, Religious, Science, Spiritual, Spirituality, State, Theology, Truth, Unity
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