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Tag Archives: Money
POEM: Just Us Fore Awe
Privilege and disenfranchisement Are two sides of the same coin Defining this flipping world And the soul weigh out Is to stop chasing coin And exorcise our debt to won another Just us fore awe People are more important than … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Authority, Awe, Debt, Disenfranchised, Domination, Gift, God, Heart, Humanity, Justice, Money, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Privilege, Respect, Short Poems, Soul, Truth, Worldview
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POEM: A Mega Something — Owed To Megabus
We waited Quiet A long time For what would be ours For what would pass As high noon Breaking the news As poor As the bussed itself Loitering in the company we keep A mega something But not a bus … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems
Tagged Money, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Shown Up
The last time He punched A time clock It was time to stop A feudal gesture Accept that It got him fired Up to his passions Eyes wide open After halving it awe And feeling dread In the mirror mourning … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Busyness, Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Efficiency, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Future, Genius, Hate, Job, Jobs, Life, Modern, Money, Mourning, Ode, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Proprietary, Security, Serendipity, Sleep, Success, Time, Violence, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: The Next Best President
Victory lies In the wanton To be a sitting president Existentially unable to take a stand As a wizard behind the bully pulpit Meaning only Curtains for US A commandeered In chief smitten Buy the status qouteth Juggling interest In … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Control, Courage, Dancing, Debt, Democracy, Dreams, Elections, Gandhi, government, Injustice, Justice, Law, leadership, Meaning, Military, Money, Moral, nobel peace prize, Occupy Wall Street, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Questions, Resistance, Respect, State, Status, Status Quo, Stupid, Time, Truth, Violence, Wall Street
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POEM: Halving No Interest
Wile a capital idea to sum I halve no interest In how you make a living Rather That which Makes you Come alive I would dare say that most of life lost is in the chasm between making a living … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, America, Art, Conundrum, Creation, Dream, Environment, Evolution, Experience, Food, Haiti, Health Care, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Liberal, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, Truth, Violence
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POEM: Reining In Global Warning
The economy was Humming Having change Their tune Given The overabundance Of hot water And cell a-steam Showering down Hour earthly reign In the scheme of things In a call amity Of biblical portions They had everything Save the earth … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Capitalism, Change, Consumption, Economy, Environment, Extinction, Food, Job, Love, Money, Mother Earth, Mourning, Poems, Poetry
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POEM: Putting The Monet In Monetize
The starving artist Whose art couldn’t be made Fast enough Fore his dealer Rejecting means Except as accede In awe but name groan Poising as a plant To the extant one can make cents Putting the Monet in monetize This … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Choices, Commercial, Compromise, Conformity, Culture, Death, Efficiency, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Irony, Job, Jobs, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Quotes, Society, Success, Surreal, Work
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POEM: Flagging Defeat
He had enough Privilege To ignore The increasingly grave mound Of white lies Worshiping some cruel over lode Surveying all that was once Theirs A teetering tower of babble Atop spinning Helled up only buy its careening whirled Mything the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Constitutional Rights, Corporate Personhood, Creativity, Culture, Democracy, Denial, Direct Democracy, Economic, Elite, Events, Future, Heart, Humanity, Imperialism, Mind, Money, National, Nationalism, Ode, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Prophet, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Rich, Slavery, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, War, Worship
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POEM: You’re Ass It’s Monetized
Monetize You’re ass It’s What Civilized People Due This is a good Monday poem, as millions return to jobs where their value as human beings takes a back seat to their value as moneymaking machines. In our capitalistic culture, when … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Culture, Economy, Humanity, Idolatry, Irony, Job, Jobs, Monetize, Money, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Reverence, Short Poems, Work
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POEM: Nothing New Under The Sun
There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Disease, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Fear, Foolish, Freedom, Generosity, God, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Heart, Humanity, Job, Liberal, Life, Market, Meaning, Money, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Religion, Respect, Scarcity, Security, Silence, Sleep, Status, Suffering, Worldview
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POEM: Capitalism Perfected
Capitalism perfected Wear every won Cells their soul And when Every body No’s that They have A fare price For dreams fabricated And nightmares awoken This poem’s title has a misleading title which implies that capitalism can be perfected. The twist … Continue reading
POEM: Know More Than Sentimental Fuels
I am petroleum I am coal I am “natural” gas Set me free From my dark and stony hearth My fiery nature lying in wait Sow vent on destruction And I will bequeath Once-in-an-eon jobs That you will blow In … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Change, Character, Climate Change, Courage, Environment, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Hell, Humanity, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Money, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Sustainable, Time
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POEM: As I Poor Myself
As I poor myself Out into the streets A pasture for the people At ease with just us Weather soon becoming A torrent of change Oar that which trickles our fancy A tributary to humanity That no’s know bounds And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Community, Courage, Experience, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Life, Money, Passion, Poor, Power, Rage, Rebellion, Status, Status Quo, Transcendent
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POEM: A Scarecrow’s Doo
My life is very Scuffed up Round the edges Hither too Better than A scarecrow Keeping Snobs a way As they brood Over heir dues Wile They are off Making hay Their own Abrade Turning straw men Into goaled Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Efficiency, Gift, Humanity, Inane, Joke, Life, Love, Meaning, Money, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Productivity, Sex, Status, Stereotypes, Superficial, Temptation, Time, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: My Brand of Value
My brand value Has plummeted recently So says sum consultant As some seer into my pristine hide Speaking a bout Clashing symbols In the mark it place Some limbic game how logo Soliciting every thing That can be taut As … Continue reading
POEM: If the Shoo Fits, Ware it
They were fighting For the sole of the Republican Party Treading on one another Hiking up the cost for all No-ing only Too exorcise their freedom In runs for the money And superior races Doing whatever they klan However big … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Freedom, Monetize, Money, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Poor, Proverb, Republican, Tea Party
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POEM: For Shadowing a Life
She had saved So much time and money Only leaving Too much too due A well honed busyness Yielding the best of the bust A treasured chest In hard times aplenty Never the less Predictably taking A rugged helm In … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, America, Busyness, Choices, Cynical, Death, Defense, Denial, Evil, Family, Fear, Freedom, Gandhi, Harmony, Hate, Human Nature, Humanist, Humanity, Image, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Labor, Life, Logic, Love, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possessions, Present, Proverb, State, Success, Time, Transcendent, Trust, Universe, Vocation, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Destiny Mending
Weave had to live In the shadow Of our looming Self-destruction It’s time To take A strand Enough All ready As we hit the concrete Beyond erudite Threads on facebook Virtually no matter How tightly woven Betwixt loose yarns spun … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, Change, Consumerism, Democracy, Denial, facebook, Fear, Hope, Humanity, Job, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Lifestyle, Money, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Reality, Soul, Technology, Time, War, Wisdom, Work, zombie
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POEM: Wage Slave Be Free
I am not a wage slave I am free And worth every penny This week, I celebrated 10 years free from wage slavery! My ensuing poverty has been a small price to pay for this freedom. I am the richest … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Climate Change, Diminishing Returns, Economic, Employment, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Happiness, History, Income, Job, Jobs, Labor, Life, Lifestyle, Living Simply, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poverty, Power, Productivity, Rich, Short Poems, Slavery, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Evolution of a Writer
Evolution of a Writer You have evolved into quite a writer Could you write something for my company? He solicited Presumably thinking I was still into monkey business Not even grasping I was clearly out of my tree This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Business, Commercial, Compromise, Creativity, Darwin, Depression, Evolution, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Future, Humanity, Inspiration, Ironic, Job, Joy, Life, Logic, Market, Materialist, Meaning, Money, Nature, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Present, Questions, Reality, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Sex, Simplicity, Society, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent, Truth, Vocation, Work, Worldview
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