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Tag Archives: mother nature
POEM: Book Ends
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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Tagged Mother Earth, mother nature
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POEM: Fossil Fools
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
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Climate Change, Environment, Environmental, Mother Earth, mother nature
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POEM: My Asthma
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
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Climate Change, Environment, Environmental, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature
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POEM: Revolution-airy
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: Balance Do
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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Tagged Environment, Environmental, Mother Earth, mother nature
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POEM: Fashionable Climate
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
POEM: Back to Me
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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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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POEM: When Butterflies Aren’t Free
The butterfly has landed A monarch of unspoiled nature As we’d taken over Urban land escapes Of green carpet bombing Convinced that lawn enforcement Must be On our side Sow naturally lying In trails Of never ending growth A cancer … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Environment, Life, Mind, mother nature, Mourning, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Toledo, Violence
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POEM: The World’s Shortest Meditation
Exhale Meditate on Mother Nature Asking only What have you done for me lately? Meditation is difficult. Meditation is exponentially more difficult for each additional minute attempted. The chattering monkeys of the mind interrupt accessing the sacred silence offered by … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, Control, Creation, Experience, God, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meditation, Mind, mother nature, Mystery, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Sacred, Short Poems, Silence, Skepticism, Society, Status, Status Quo
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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: 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
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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: Owed to XL
Owed to XL Something irresistible Drug from Canada That must be some wick-ed shit! What the “eh” For the land of the free to be Sold to the highest Bitter Everything must go! “It’s going to happen anyway” A juggernaut … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Heart, leadership, Life, Moral, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Prison, Responsibility, State, Tar Sands, Work
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POEM: Surfing The Heat Wave
Surfing The Heat Wave While surfing the heat wave I peer into my horror scope Is life a beach? What is there to sea? The age of Aquarius in retrograde Mercury rising Is it all a mirage? Whew, is this … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Climate Change, Denial, Evil, Greed, Life, Money, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Political, Politics, Protest Poetry, Skepticism, Social Movements, Stewardship
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BP Tar Sands Refinery Expansion – PEOPLE’S HEARING Testimony
Below is my testimony at the PEOPLE’S HEARING to respond to the Ohio EPA’s sham public hearing on BP-Husky’ Draft Air Pollution Permit as part of their Oregon Ohio refinery re-tooling to process oil tar sands, the dirtiest oil on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, America, Ancient, Beauty, Business, Change, Children, Citizens, Community, Congress, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Economic, Environment, Environmental, government, Greed, History, Humanity, Insanity, Jobs, Justice, Life, Money, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Occupy Toledo, Play, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Power, Progress, Public Health, Scarcity, State, Stewardship, Sustainable, Tar Sands, Time, Toledo, Trust, Wealth, Women, Work
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POEM: A Mother’s Nature
This poem did not exist a few hours ago. I was interrupted by a thought (captured in the first few lines) and I took the time to jot them down. Seconds turned to hours as the muse is a taskmaster … Continue reading