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Tag Archives: Mourning
POEM: In Hospitable Missive
This poem was inspired by Israel’s official denial of any responsibility in the missile attack on a Palestinian hospital which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of patients, health care workers, and refugees desperately seeking what was hoped to be … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Denial, Health Care, Israel, Military, Mourning, Palestinian, Reality, Refugees, Responsibility, Truth, War
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POEM: Tears in My Soul
This poem is a mournful riff on the destructive grievance politics of the so-called right. Of course, what is left is left, with love and hope remaining to knit life wince agin. Tears in My Soul Where divides multiply As … Continue reading
POEM: Alarm Going Off
I see one of the pervasive everyday forms of violence in capitalism is having to wake up to alarm “normally.” I have no problem being woke, just not by alarms. I believe that luxuriating in the natural process of waking … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Mourning, Violence
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POEM: Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us
This is another anti-capitalist poem, scorning profits over people, the vain whining of grievance politics, and the lethal short-sightedness of just us. Indecency Wee Re-side — Owed To Propriety Owner Us They miss judged As the profits for tolled Propriety … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Efficiency, Humanity, Kindness, Mourning, Play, Politics, Privilege, Propriety, Respect, skin in the game, Virtue, Wisdom
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POEM: Karma Cat -28,000 Poems
This poem toys with the notion of karma and reincarnation as a vehicle for moral evolution and sum sort of cosmic justice. This poem employs as a metaphor the relationship between a karmic cat living thousands of lives encountering uncounted … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Balance, Crude, Cruelty, Culture, Evolution, Forgiveness, Genius, Hate, Holy, Hope, Jesus, Justice, Karma, Life, Loss, Luck, Meaning, Mind, Moral, Mourning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Skepticism, Society, Transcendent
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POEM: Death Unexplained [Ode to Harry Gavin]
Our youngest grandchild (Maryjo’s son’s son), Harry Gavin, 7-months-old, feel asleep and never woke up. Below is his obituary; followed by a poem I wrote for our family and loved ones. Harold Patrick Gavin, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep … Continue reading
POEM: Promedica My Ass — Owed To Branding
Logos used Too mean Know ledge Like that age owed ad vice Would you jump off a bridge If every won ails did As in sayin’ Bye your good will As money oozes from the non-prophet, health care (sic) system … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Family, Gandhi, Genius, Health Care, Justice, Life, Living Wage, Love, Money, Mourning, Poet, Poetry, ProMedica, Prophet, Proprietary, Propriety, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Tao, Time, Toledo
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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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ELECTION POEM: Democracy Takes A Dive
Like that Mourning do After a cold night Looking over That nasty bluff When the populace says jump As if Only culpable Sane How high Falling for everything Accept gravity and physics As mirror opinion Reproving such an eminent nadir … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Choices, Democracy, Domination, Donald Trump, Dream, Dystopia, Exceptionalism, Fascism, Fear, Future, Hope, Hubris, Imperialism, Justice, Life, Mourning, Neoliberalism, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Solidarity
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NEWS: TPP Declared Dead — Good Riddance Trans-Pacific Partnership!
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, President Barack Obama has ended his push for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the largest free trade agreement ever sought. The TPP is dead. I am hard pressed to think of a … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Congress, Control, Donald Trump, Economic, Free Trade, Greed, Immigration, Mourning, Obama, Power, President, TPP, Violence
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POEM: Mad Happy
Well I never Happy to be mad Mad too be happy This might be crazy That maybe fitting Ante this and ante that Given fighting chance And unbelievable odds Of uncounted to won Beat up and up beat Pleased as … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awe, Crazy, Existential, Experience, Injustice, Job, Justice, Life, Loss, Mourning, Outrage, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rage, Solidarity
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POEM: Naught For Prophet Fun Razing
In the crucible Of the well-heeled And the, well, heeled He surrounded himself With corporate persons Naught for prophet organizations Possessed buy a cutting edge currency paper thin The filing and folding kind Their foundational hope Nay only hope To … Continue reading
IN DEPENDENCE DAZE POEM — A Little Colony PR: Owed Too Puerto Rico
If at first you don’t secede You will be tried, tried agin Taking atoll Largely unheard Feigning liberties In centuries owed looming freedom Weave earned our lessen From the British umpire Never let US leave North America [Except for certain … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Citizens, Colonial Rule, Congress, Control, Debt, Democracy, Economy, Freedom, government, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Puerto Rico, State, Status, Work
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POEM: Mirror Winning In a Close Shave
That mine-blowing moment finally came Where he saw his enemy Face to efface That fateful mourning Infinitely more dangerous And dreadfully more thorny Than blood drawn in a close shave Like a glance to the heart None other Then his … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Awe, Creation, Experience, Heart, Humanity, Mourning, Philosophical, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Projection, Psychology, Self-Discovery, Short Poems, Truth
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EPIC POEM: As Night Watch Man
In the deep Of the knight Watch man Finding one self prone Where singular stars obscure As perpetual high noon Where time stops Straight up Where the sun don’t shine Like a broken time peace With patients in undated Wear … Continue reading
POEM: A Constipated Citizenry
Not so deep Within the body politic A constipated citizenry Yearns to be free Crying out In a full groan democracy Mourning the dearth of moral fiber Humanity squat An abject lessen Lo expectations As number too Clinging to far-fetched … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Cynicism, Democracy, Donald Trump, Freedom, government, Hillary Clinton, History, Humanity, Irony, Modern, Moral, Mourning, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power
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POEM: Another Martyr Bides The Dust
Another martyr bides the dust And I was a stray Beside myself In the fog Of yet another mourning The missed over my heart Feeling only that ephemeral beaten The wait on my brain Fueled into thinking of the dread … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Character, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Community, Compassion, Conscience, Conservative, Death, Dorothy Day, Elite, Environmental, Family, Fear, Freedom, God, government, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Hope, Human Race, Imperialism, Integrity, Jesus, Life, Love, Martyr, Militarism, Military, Mourning, National, nobel peace prize, Obedience, Occupy Wall Street, Oligarchy, Poems, Poet, Political, Poverty, Power, Prison, Protests, Religious, Religious Freedom, Risk, Sacred, State, Time, Truth, Wall Street, War, Women, Work
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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: 24/7 on I-75 — Owed To Trafficking Noise
24/7 on I-75 Only herd In the mourning Quiet scarce With the engines of freedom Racing vicious cycles In know way asking, “who cars?” As you whirr The buzz of the high way The humdrum of civilization The muffled rumble … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Capitalism, Consumerism, Freedom, God, Hope, Life, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Short Poems, Silence
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POEM: Morning Has Broke
Mourning is hear The bell tolls fore thee Riiiiiiiight Whatever Get up You had Left Right Left right Left Here is another Monday mourning poem for all who may be ambivalent or outright hate their work, particularly the screeching violence … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Creation, Culture, Experience, Hate, Heart, History, Job, Law, Lifestyle, Living Simply, Military, Money, Mourning, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Probability, Sabbath, Short Poems, Simplicity, Sleep, Success, Time, Violence, Work
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