Tag Archives: Mother Earth

POEM: Voices in the Wilderness

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Top Pun

The center of gravity of the body politic might kill US. To a void, such a grave situation, we need clarion voices in the wilderness… Voices in the Wilderness They temped to silence the voices In the wilderness Wile in … Continue reading →

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POEM: As Airs to the Thrown

Posted on April 25, 2026 by Top Pun

I suspect that it is no coincidence that America loves zombie apocalypse movies. How many will be surprised that “normal” brings societal collapse? This poem speaks to this zeitgeist of our age, our moral childishness. I think of this as … Continue reading →

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POEM: Coaled Hearted

Posted on February 6, 2026 by Top Pun

A short fossil fuel and climate chaos poem for the dead of winter… Coaled Hearted The coaled hearted Won’t stop Until they have Even robbed the snow banks

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POEM: Suicide Enaction

Posted on January 15, 2026 by Top Pun

Here is a poem about both our individual and collective responsibilities to act on the climate crisis.  At the nexus of personal responsibility and collective responsibility, there converges that buy product in action, inaction, and enaction… Suicide Enaction Personally I … Continue reading →

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POEM: Book Ends

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Top Pun

Life has boundaries. May we respect those boundaries… Book Ends We live Fore the time being In a whirled Sow illiterate That disrespects The bookends of life The sacred nest Of awe human life And the reverence Of Mother Earth … Continue reading →

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POEM: Fossil Fools

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to the COP30 climate conference from the mouth of the Amazon about won passable future… Fossil Fools Deep in the future The alien archeologists landed Long after the human raze Was extincting to hi heaven What … Continue reading →

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POEM: My Asthma

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Top Pun

Sometimes, it seems that I am a little too connected to the world… My Asthma Just The other day To God I in choir Singing my wheezy song Why did you give me asthma? She hummed long Something concerning My … Continue reading →

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POEM: On the Sacrificial Lam

Posted on October 13, 2025 by Top Pun

For those who may claim that you are living precariously in some fashion, just know that it may be difficult to be more suicidal than planet human right now… On the Sacrificial Lam To live sow precariously They couldn’t help … Continue reading →

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POEM: Revolution-airy

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Top Pun

Earth is our ultimate revolution… Revolution-airy “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” –Emma Goldman In this whirled Of human unkind Nevertheless Mother Earth spins Up on her axes On a roll Of celestial … Continue reading →

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POEM: Vegan?

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Top Pun

Here is a funny poem about my aspirational veganism… Vegan? They asked the fated quest in Why are you a vegan? Well, as a recovering nutritional fascist I try to be a hospitalitarian Eating whatever someone offers me Butt The … Continue reading →

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POEM: Balance Do

Posted on September 3, 2025 by Top Pun

Here is another poem dedicated to Mother Earth. Love your momma! Balance Do If soully we could get Enough Of Mother Earth and fecund wealth A rich dance With soil and water Flora and fauna Trusted friends and clear skies … Continue reading →

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POEM: Fashionable Climate

Posted on August 27, 2025 by Top Pun

The environment is not infinitely malleable. May we each treasure our mother… Fashionable Climate Soon and vary soon The climate of Toledo Will be Bequeathed The climate of the deep south in 1950 In a madder of generations How becoming … Continue reading →

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POEM: Back to Me

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Top Pun

Mother Earth is calling us home. Let that call be a family reunion, not a funeral. Back to Me Sow little A tension As I feed The globe In circling awe You whack me I grow deeper roots You withhold … Continue reading →

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POEM: De-construction Jobs

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem goes out to those lives and communities where climate disasters wreak havoc, especially those suffering in the chasm between those who have the wherewithal to recover and those who don’t. May we be good neighbors to each other … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Posit of Treasured

Posted on September 7, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: “Kids these daze” – Mother Earth

Posted on September 5, 2024 by Top Pun

A bit of wisdom: listen to your momma. “Kids these daze” – Mother Earth Pardon Dying Too ax How due You No Your mama Accept as A consume her Living as if theirs No tomorrow

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POEM: Audience Participation

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Top Pun

Saving the planet and the life that inhabits it is not a spectator sport. What is your personal action plan to help save Mother Earth and her children? Audience Participation Now For our next death deifying act Matched only buy … 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: Citizen Ship

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Top Pun

This short poem goes out to all of you planetary citizens out there. Citizen Ship They had no papers They’re citizenship Written on their hearts By Mother Earth

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POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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