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Tag Archives: Nonviolence
POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s “de-escalation through escalation.” Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war. Needle-less to Say: … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Culture, Israel, Nonviolence, Violence, War
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POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’
Violence often seems to be second nature, obvious or inescapable. Perhaps violence is inescapable because it begets itself, setting up new rounds of consequences where further violence begs further violence. Violence begetting itself may just be the manifestation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Future, Nature, Nonviolence, Poor, Reality, Sacred, Success, Violence, War
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ANTI-VIOLENCE POEM: Sisyphean Tax
He was steeped in the slippery slope of violence An idol escalator Heedlessly powered by gravity and gravitas A climb it denier Of the worst breed Not giving won ascent A bout others In spite of the accost Whatever It … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Attitude, Awe, Consciousness, Creativity, Domination, Experience, Freedom, Hell, Life, Moral, Nature, Nonviolence, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Present, Reactionary, skin in the game, State, Suffering, Time, Top Pun, Violence
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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: Technicolored Jesus
Is it time for one of those Come to Jesus moments Wear there is skin in the game Beyond black and white Word And what surrounds Words Becoming flesh Another flood In a see of Red between the lyin’s More … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Blessed, Christianity, Doctrine, Enlightenment, Hell, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Nonviolence, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Racism, Religion, skin in the game, Slavery, Soul, Time, Violence
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POEM: Commander-in-chief
Just Say it Three times fast He/she/it Commander-in-chief Presiding over No unwounded soldiers As sum kind Of used scars salesman Master of what we auto do Protector of awe we car about As if Some amored vehicle Good grief Shock … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Creation, Evil, God, Hell, Image, Life, Military, Nationalism, Nonviolence, Normal, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Power, President, Propaganda, Reality, Sacred, Sacrifice, Slavery, Time, Top Pun, Trust, Violence, War, Worship
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POEM: Until Hell Frees Us
Be very frayed Terrorism comes From know where Deep in the recesses Of kindergarten bullying Capital vocations And martial lawlessness Awe rapped up in won’s highest I deal Those unspeakable prophets In security Detained indefinitely Until hell frees us Ever … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Accountability, Awe, Children, Culture, Death, Evil, Fear, God, Hell, History, Hope, Hypocritical, Idioms, Injustice, Jesus, Justice, Life, Logic, Militarism, Moral, Necessary Evil, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Obedience, Oppression, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Privilege, Reality, Rich, Sacrifice, Security, State, Terrorism, Time, Violence, War, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: The Yeast Of These
Wile there is much bred Daily preyed for Ample for awe concerned That seemingly still Fomenting swell times A mist repleting agin and agin In dubitable motifs Giving ascent to That for most ingredient A telling signature of homme The … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Conventional Wisdom, Crime, Disenfranchised, Elite, Faith, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Injustice, Joy, Justice, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Normal, Pacifism, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Police, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Privilege, Rage, Reality, Resistance, Respect, Revolution, Sex, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Solidarity, State, Status, Status Quo, Success, Suffering, Truth, Violence, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Weepin of Choice
His unwillingness to be a victim Soully exceeded Buy his willfulness to be a perpetrator Better to have Willed a gun Than mirrorly get A ballad in ahead That imminently natural selection Of hapless pray Re: in force Such patriotic … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cautionary Tale, Children, Creation, Death, Evil, Gift, God, Hate, Hell, Hope, Humanity, Job, Jobs, Kindness, Life, Loss, Mind, Murder, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rationalization, Religious, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, skin in the game, Soul, Spiritual, Values, Violence, War, Willingness, Worldview
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POEM: Liberal Mined Violent
Some liberal mined violent Call up on pacifists To condemn a brand of violence To wit They object Ultimately subjected To accost Without benefit analysis Coming efface to efface With realty And a sorted loved wons Unwilling to accede where … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Conservative, Courage, Cowardice, Creativity, Cynical, Death, Disenfranchised, Evil, Fear, Free Will, Gandhi, God, Greed, Heart, Hope, Idealism, Imagination, Injustice, Israel, Justice, Liberal, Love, Military, Mind, Mock, Modern, Moral, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Palestine, Political, Present, Privilege, Quotes, Respect, Responsibility, Science, skin in the game, Spiritual, State, Truth, Veterans, Violence, War, Willingness, Work, Worship
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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self
In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Change, Denial, Events, Experience, Fear, Gandhi, God, Hate, Heart, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Love, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, Psychology, Reactionary, Reality, Rebellion, Resistance, Rich, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Success, Temptation, Time, Transcendent, Violence, Voting
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POEM: A Ghastly Alchemy
For just Some Dam Weepin’s permit I protect and serve Up my enemies Like Cold Turkey Shoot Only to rifle But growing ode In a ghastly alchemy Silver bullets turning to lead Down the wrong path Instantly poisoned Hearts and … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Common Good, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Democracy, Denial, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Guns, Human Rights, Ideals, Life, Loss, Moral, Morality, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rage, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, Selfish, Violence, Virtue, Work
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POEM: Eulogizing Fort Hood
Eulogizing Fort Hood It is not ours to ask Why those so schooled In violence Should act violently On a vocation so seriously Taking Won too many weepings Lead so quickly Penetrating human hearts Our own flesh Not at home … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Guns, Heart, Nonviolence, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Rage, Veterans, Violence, Vocation
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POEM: Whimsically Beat
You may beat me physically But I’ll beat you whimsically The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force. Violence is appealing to persons of low character. Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life. For … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Analogy, Character, Generosity, Humor, Life, Love, Nonviolence, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Rules, Short Poems, Universe, Violence, Whimsical, Whimsy
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POEM: A Rude Invitation
Violence is an invitation To more violence And a rude invitation at that Such invitations need not be returned As you might have guest Violence begets violence. Means produce ends. How can we escape this vicious cycle? Must we accept … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, America, Creation, Creativity, Crises, Experience, Freedom, Gandhi, Healing, Human Rights, Justice, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Rage, Reality, Sacrifice, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, State, Violence, War, Work, Xenophobia
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POEM: Chapter 58 – Isaiah
Chapter 58 – Isaiah Isaiah was a man A kind of a man More generous than his wealth Untouchable by another’s profits With a frugality beyond any poverty He was a gentle man With a purposefulness typically beyond words Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Ancient, Bible, Change, Civil Disobedience, Courage, Cruelty, Economic, Evil, Faith, Food, Freedom, God, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Injustice, Irony, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Modern, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Ode, Oppression, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Present, Prison, Quotes, Rebellion, Rich, Sabbath, Social Justice, Time, Violence, War, Wealth, Work
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