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- POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles
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- POEM: Locked in Prism
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- POEM: Here on Abet
- POEM: Away With Words
- POEM: Did I Hear You Write?
- POEM: To Know a Veil
- POEM: The Ark of History
- POEM: Having Landed, Hear
- POEM: True Believer
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Tag Archives: Mother Earth
POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles
This poem is yet another ode to my love affair with Mother Earth and the endurance and multi-generational commitment needed to forestall catastrophic climate chaos. Walking the Second Thousand Miles Hiking out of a desert Of environmental neglect With rising … Continue reading
POEM: A Seventh Generation Fuel
This poem is a tip of the hat to indigenous peoples’ supremely wise practice of considering every decision in the light of how it will affect people seven generations down the road. I wrote this during the dark of the … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Foolish, History, Mother Earth, Political, Wisdom
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POEM: Mine, Mine, Mine
Dehumanizing extractive industries are destroying our environment, second only to climate change. Mining is a huge part of extractive industries’ destruction. And, ironically, the technologies needed for a green economy require immense quantities of minerals that drive the “green, green, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Children, Climate Change, Dehumanizing, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Mining, Mother Earth, Poor
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POEM: Mother Earth Riffed
I have literally cried for daze with wildfire smoke in my eyes. I pine for the daze where the earth on fire was largely a metaphor. This poem was delivered from purgatory. Mother Earth Riffed We live (sic) In a … Continue reading
POEM: Sorry, Mom
This poem is a form of apology to Mother Earth for the daily grand rationalizations we tolerate in service of capitalism and The Economy, our won true God. I post this as wildfire smoke engulfs multiple states with killer air … Continue reading
BICYCLING POEM: Mother Earth And Her Cycles
Mother Earth Has her cycles Look out! Respect her cycles Don’t be a fossil fool Ride that bike! Powered by living humans Not dead relics Exorcise those fossils, fool! Ride that bike! Get that warm feeling And cool breeze The … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Bicycling, Gift, Joy, Love, Mindfulness, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Solidarity, Virtue
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CLIMATE CHANGE POSTER: Mother Earth – Houston, We Have a Problem – Can You Hear Me Now?
As Houston endures that largest rainfall in American history, climate change deniers have a chance to get their feet wet in reality. Please feel free to share this free poster: “Mother Earth – Houston, We Have a Problem – Can … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News
Tagged Change, Climate Change, Environmental, free poster, Free Posters, History, Mother Earth, Reality
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found
Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found Sow culpable Too due nothing President Trump pulls out What little hand He had in Mother Earth’s Safe guarding His oily and gassy mates Coal for everyone! It’s like Christmas!! And stocks sore … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Business, Change, Children, Christmas, Climate Change, Community, Defense, Denial, Donald Trump, Environmental, Free market, government, Hope, Humanity, Insanity, Kindness, Law, leadership, Love, Market, Meditation, Mother Earth, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propriety, Resistance, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Russia, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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POLITICAL POEM: Heir Conditioning
As things went south South goes north Truly Global warning is real There is an arising From the fires in bellies And home fires burning In efface of doors closed Windows open Those crazy few Committed Those sober many Just … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Climate Change, Crazy, Donald Trump, Farce, Injustice, Justice, Mother Earth, Mourning, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Right-Wing, Solidarity, Wisdom
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POEM: Just Dew It
Round Mid night Countless drops Fall free In to the loving alms Of Mother Earth Making a mud pact With trees, meadow, and flower To dew wet sow ever They thirst for Life has an incredible capacity for renewal. As … Continue reading
REAL POLITICS, REAL CANDIDATE: Jill Stein 2016 Platform
IF you want a progressive presidential candidate that you can get excited about voting FOR, then Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate is worth serious consideration. Jill Stein has selected her Green Party running mate, Vice President choice, Ajamu Baraka. … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authority, Ballot, Business, Capitalism, Change, China, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Climate Change, Commercial, Community, Congress, Constitutional Rights, Control, Corporate Personhood, Courage, Creation, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Culture, Death, Death Penalty, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Democrat, Disarmament, Discrimination, Disease, Diversity, Doctrine, drone, Economic, Economy, Education, Elections, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Equality, Family, Fear, Food, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, Future, Gender, government, Green Party, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Housing, Human Rights, Humanity, Immigration, Income, Israel, Jill Stein, Job, Jobs, Justice, Kids, Labor, Law, Learning, LGBT, Life, Living Wage, Meaning, Media, Medicare, Medicare for All, Mental Health, Military, Money, Mother Earth, National, NATO, Nonviolent, Nuclear Power, Nutrition, Obama, Palestine, Partisan, Patriot, Police, Police Brutality, Political, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Poverty, Power, President, Prevention, Prison, Progress, Public Health, Racism, Rage, Refugees, Religion, Responsibility, Rich, Russia, Security, Social Security, State, Status, Substance Abuse, Sustainable, Tar Sands, taxes, Terrorism, Violence, Voters, Voting, Wall Street, War, Wealth, Women, Work, Workplace
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COMEDIAN JESUS: Pax Romana — You’re Killing Me!
This Comedian Jesus political cartoon highlights the shallow liberalism and false choices of Pax Romana, the metaphorical stand-in for Pax Americana, peace through so-called enlightened domination. This Comedian Jesus cartoon also ties the all-too-convenient collaboration of political and religious elites … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Accountability, America, Authority, Awe, Cartoon, Children, Choices, Church, Citizens, Citizenship, Comics, Creation, Death, Domination, Employment, Funny, God, Hope, Ideals, Imperialism, Jesus, Martyrdom, Military, Modern, Money, Mother Earth, Nonviolence, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Powers that be, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Radical, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Xenophobia
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POEM: A Boner Fide Off Her
Things are heating up in America As round the earth Flatlanders are in a whirled Of applausable deniability As their scholar ship sales Off any known atlas Of shrugging turtles And histrionic elephants Lording over mice and men In the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Children, Climate Change, Denial, Environmental, Free market, Hubris, Logic, Market, masculinity, Mother Earth, Nature, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Victim Blaming
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POLITICAL POEM: The Whole Damn Nation
Oh no No no A nation divided And so so partial to the whirled As who elect Who to rule Over US The select select Culled before we can even vote In the worst OKs scenario Effaced with know choice … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Citizens, Courage, Debt, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dream, Dreams, Freedom, Gratitude, Harmony, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, Imperialism, Justice, Media, Mother Earth, National, Nature, Ode, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, State, Third Party, Unity, Vocation, Voting, Wealth
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POEM: In The Scheme of Things
First class was all Most sold out Withal more empty than seeming Wanting even Titanic eves To match their daze Equally unenlightened Missing that sinking feeling Drinking in their moonshine Wrecklessly straight With nary an ice cube Their glasses deluging … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Climate Change, Hubris, Humanity, Irony, Karma, Life, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Rich, Titanic
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POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: A World Without Boarders
Mother earth bids us What rend must we pay For such fear in dwelling In apprehending tenets In discriminating borne Giving no quarter To mother and child And presumed fodder Taking the place Of wear every won re-sides Drawing lyin’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Children, Common Good, Consciousness, Death, Fear, Healing, Hope, Humanity, Illegal, Lazy, Life, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Racism, Rhetoric, Security, State, Stewardship, War, Xenophobia
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POEM: Spring Has Sprung
Winter is passed And still What is dung is dung Yet in concert with nature Sow becoming A sublime movement From the bowels of Mother Earth And her thirst borne sun Spring has sprung From her fertile eyes Perfectly teeming … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Environment, Hope, Humanity, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Short Poems, Social Movements, Soul
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