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Tag Archives: Passion
POEM: Rat Race Religion
This poem is a meditation on the banality of evil that arises from good people doing nothing when it comes knocking at their doorstep. This accomplice-ment is aided by a blinding enmeshment in a rat race offering, justification for ignoring … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Evil, Family, God, Hope, Humanity, Life, Meditation, Passion, Rat Race, Religion, Sacred, Security, Solidarity, War
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Free Anti SCHOOL SHOOTING POSTER: Prez Donald Trump – School as Public Hunting Area – Tweeting “Children are DEER to U.S. Most. DEER. Ever.”
Prez Donald Trump, Congressional Republicans, and assorted NRA buddies, have allowed open season on Americans across this great land for too long. As school children are hunted with assault rifles, the children may have to lead U.S. supposed grownups to … Continue reading
POEM: Won Race
He ran his won race Not around other men’s tracks But in open fields Into sunsets and sunrises Never looking back As no one affront And know time Where mostly losers must collect Outside The whiner’s circle And still Fodder … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awareness, Awe, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Gift, Life, Loss, Passion, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Radical, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Self-Awareness, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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POEM: Dream Catcher
A daze work Over Come Bye sleep Sow few dream catchers Sow many dreams And that’s the catch This poem is about work, vocation, passion, and burnout. This poem is mournful in that so many dreams go unrealized, uncaught. This … Continue reading
POEM: Shown Up
The last time He punched A time clock It was time to stop A feudal gesture Accept that It got him fired Up to his passions Eyes wide open After halving it awe And feeling dread In the mirror mourning … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Busyness, Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Efficiency, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Future, Genius, Hate, Job, Jobs, Life, Modern, Money, Mourning, Ode, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Proprietary, Security, Serendipity, Sleep, Success, Time, Violence, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Born With Two Black Eyes: Owed To New Be and Queens
She was born with two black eyes Living in a whirled Wear her highest aspirations Sore over the lowly color blind As every color whited out Yet she sails the sees of dark and light As two dance freely A … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Classism, Compassion, Culture, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Racism, Sacrifice, Sexism, Short Poems, Truth, Wisdom, Women
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POEM: For Awe That Has Been Urned
In her dreams She is wanting To be moved By more than Slumber too slumber Mirrorly to a wake Daze unending With that annoying buzz Thirst thing in the mourning The pique of the day The latest snooze A stay … Continue reading
POEM: Can She Be Eunuch?
She stated No one else can do what I do To witch They rejoined Realing in whore Accept that you are a cog You intractable wrench Unfit for cloning round And unstranded She cut out From the puppet tier Knot … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Acceptance, Art, Capitalism, Common Good, Courage, Creativity, Crude, Cynical, Dehumanizing, Efficiency, Elite, Evil, Female, Foolish, Gift, God, Greed, Heart, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Monetize, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Productivity, Rage, Rhetoric, Soul, Stupid, Time, Virtue, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Shame Old Story
A little bit Of shame Goes along Weigh Too much With blinders Knot visible In a sense Lost To over looking As awe full as life is This poem is about the overabundance of shame, a tail as owed as … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Blessing, Compassion, Control, Evil, Faith, Inspiration, Integrity, Lazy, Life, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Psychology, Punishment, Religion, Soul, Time, Work
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POEM: Constipated Destiny
He knew knot Exactly where He was going As fate would have it Seized by easy convictions Big house Auto, pilot And every won else’s Re-guard Of one self full Filled Buy in And sell out In humanity A sure … Continue reading
POEM: God’s Perish
I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: A Thoreau Reading — Owed To Awe That Sucks
Some say That he sucked The marrow from life And resin ate Down to my bones Blood brothers In what is Not a race To judge knot In won slice of life Or as-certain fine truth From lowly metaphor And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Facts, Life, Meaning, Moral, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Thoreau, Truth
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POEM: Putting The Monet In Monetize
The starving artist Whose art couldn’t be made Fast enough Fore his dealer Rejecting means Except as accede In awe but name groan Poising as a plant To the extant one can make cents Putting the Monet in monetize This … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Choices, Commercial, Compromise, Conformity, Culture, Death, Efficiency, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Irony, Job, Jobs, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Quotes, Society, Success, Surreal, Work
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POEM: A Re-View of a Plunk Rock Band, Tossing Watery Graves
I want it awe Yet what do you no What measures Must we take From emanate ripples He helled the earth in his hand Of what intimated Of know consequence A dinky mount To sky ward heavin’ Hoping only to … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Attitude, Awe, Blessed, Change, Cognitive Dissonance, Courage, Disenfranchised, Dogma, Empathy, Environmental, Experience, Freedom, Grace, Heart, Hell, Hope, Idealism, Intellect, Justice, Learning, Liberal, Life, Meaning, Nature, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Present, Privilege, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Rules, Scientific Reductionism, Social Justice, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Where The Win Blows
He axed me What are your demands Other than justice Or saving life? Claiming that We must shed light On just said Shady distinctions I mirrorly pronounced That the win blows And we no knot wear Such goest In this … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Change, Compromise, Courage, Democracy, Faith, Genius, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Ideals, Justice, Life, Mind, Occupy Wall Street, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Privilege, Solidarity, Soul, Wall Street, Wisdom
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POEM: Metings, I’d Rather Do Without
I listen To that which speaks A bigger In feeleds of dreams Wanting more Then words Aloft from fences Of unsatisfying breadth And stealy calculation Dis passionate mines As inevitable ballbusters Descending from bona fide guise Even handed lines Powerless … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Bullshit, Change, Control, Dreams, Experience, Future, Healing, Heart, Ideology, Intellect, Justice, Life, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Time, Truth
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POEM: In Possibility Incarnate
Alex created A work of art And Another Each infinitely improbable In possibility incarnate Bound only By certain desire One in many This poem is a mini-manifesto on art and the artistic process; hopefully, inducing some inspiration and incarnating some … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awareness, Beautiful, Change, Character, Existential, Experience, Freedom, Gender, God, Heart, Inspiration, Life, Manifesto, masculinity, Meaning, Passion, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Religion, Self-Awareness, Work
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POEM: His Hole Life
His hole life He refused to get carried away Keeping his emotions in check A promissory note Just enough to cover his pallbearers A noteworthy life, one that is lived wholeheartedly, is not without passion. Life: it’s all in the … Continue reading
POEM: As I Poor Myself
As I poor myself Out into the streets A pasture for the people At ease with just us Weather soon becoming A torrent of change Oar that which trickles our fancy A tributary to humanity That no’s know bounds And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Community, Courage, Experience, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Life, Money, Passion, Poor, Power, Rage, Rebellion, Status, Status Quo, Transcendent
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