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Tag Archives: Patience
POEM: A Walker, Please
My Dad got out of the hospital yesterday, after falling on his butt and crushing a vertebrae and a disc last week. After a successful surgery to stabilize his back and reduce the pain, he was transferred to the assisted … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Community, Hospitality, Life, Patience, Spiritual, Time
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POEM: On Fire and Ice — Owed to Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty U.S. air force senior airman, committed self-immolation by fire to protest the U.S. sponsored Israeli genocide of Gaza. His final cry was “Free Palestine.” On Fire and Ice: Owed to Aaron Bushnell Fire and Ice, by … Continue reading
POEM: Anew Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Anew Year Father time Mother patience Bring it on Anew year Out with the owed Be gone with grudges And woe to overdo In with the knew Refreshing awe that hold dear Embracing fully that near And … Continue reading
POEM: The Rode Less Travailed
While I have a grate deal of confidence in my well-founded opinions, I can get lost in sharing these opinions with those who have no interest in listening to them. Even if I am right, the shadow of self-righteousness can … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Dancing, Life, Patience, Silence
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POEM: The Hypocrites Oath
This poem is a parody of the “Hippocratic Oath,” an early version of medical ethics best known for its precept of “do no harm.” Of course, American health care is a minefield of doing harm, adept at both undertreatment and … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Ethics, Health Care, Patience, Prevention
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POEM: A Madder of Time
This poem plays with the notions of patience and urgency in a whirled that can be crazy, like berserkers crying for help. The tempting insanity of joining the frenetic pace of crazy can’t just be brushed off, as some sane … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crazy, Insanity, Patience, Time
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POEM: Calling Awe Siblings
Awe those who stand in awesome awe are my siblings. This poem is a call for awe of us to join together as one family. Calling Awe Siblings There is family Close as kin And stronger than blood Knits beyond … Continue reading
POEM: Bastard Won and Awe
This poem is a tribute to that parent of us awe, oddly making us sort of bastards, yet siblings to all. Feel free to join this family of virtues. Bastard Won and Awe I am A bastard Fodder to none … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Children, Faith, Family, Generosity, Hope, Love, Patience
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LOVE POEM: The Her and Now
The Her and Now Her gentle generosity Levels a see of petty lacks Her abundant kindness Overwhelms any insecurity Her abiding faith Shrinks fear two size Her steadfast patience Outlasts wistful worries Her joy Outshines any mourn Her bounding gratitude … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Awe, Consumption, Faith, Fear, Generosity, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Kindness, Life, Love, Love Poems, Patience, Poet, Poetry, Soul, Valentine
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Testimony for National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service — END DRAFT REGISTRATION
I prepared the below testimony to present at a public meeting in Chicago before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, a commission created by Congress to deal with questions of draft registration, most specifically, whether to end … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, and Public Service, Balance, Blessing, Business, Change, Character, Charity, Children, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, Coercion, Community, Compulsion, Congress, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Constitution, Constitutional Rights, Control, Cowardice, Creation, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Draft Registration, Education, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Farce, Fear, Female, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, Future, Gandhi, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Heart, History, Holy, Honesty, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Ideals, Idolatry, Inspiration, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Media, Mennonite, Mercy, Military, Modern, Moral, Murder, Muslims, National, National Commission on Military, National Security, Nature, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Obedience, Patience, Peacemakers, People of The Book, Perspective, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Present, President, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Radical, Reality, Refugees, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Resistance, Rhetoric, Risk, Rules, Russia, Sacred, Security, Selective Service System, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Suffering, Supreme Court, Surreal, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, Violence, War, Women, Work, Worship
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Republican Leaders Gather To Celebrate Their Tax Scam
The coalition of deplorables known as the Republican leadership are celebrating the careening success of their ill-considered, hypocritical, and mean-spirited tax scam. Now, perhaps the only hope for sane Americans is that GOP leaders will stumble over themselves in their … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Conservative, Donald Trump, Economic, Evil, Failure, Family, free poster, Free Posters, GOP, Hope, Hypocritical, Income, Inequality, Law, leadership, Money, Patience, Political, Republican, Success, taxes, Time, Wall Street, Wealth
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HOPE POEM: Hope Can Be
Hope can be Like an animal cornered by a predator Fighting for life Hope can be Like a wisp of smoke Wafting through the claws of enemies Hope can be Like adore number three A seeding that grand prize of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Courage, Death, Enemies, Experience, Hope, Life, Patience, Poems, Rules, Violence
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POEM: Hope – That Singular Bird
Hope comes from high noon And at night From the sunlight skipping off the moon Hope slips through the concrete Like a weed Just being A weed Hope grows on trees Some falling as seeds Most dropping as fertilizer Only … Continue reading
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Tagged Hope, Life, Modern, Patience, Poems, Poetry
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POLITICAL POEM: Pick You’re Genocide
Pick You’re genocide Won side or the other Gun to head Ahead to gun Aliens pervade our atmosphere As whirled wore thee Restless natives no so slight Wear homieland security rules Redcoats and bluecoats Everyday cover ups Of fuzz overruling … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Change, Choices, Congress, Courage, Democracy, Diversity, Domination, Elections, Evolution, Faith, Fear, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Mind, Money, National, Optimism, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Rage, Revolution, Revolutionary, Rich, Rules, Security, Silence, Sustainable, Time, Voters, Voting, Work
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POEM: Flowing Inevitably Threw Us
Our hearts were broke A cache sow, well, spent In solvent In life Long Yearnings Teaming tsunamis of solidarity Of the largesse kind Poor Over us Torn as under A heavy wait Pre-seeding A compelling yield As if Some bank … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Compassion, Dreams, Experience, Generosity, Grace, Heart, Holy, Injustice, Kindness, Life, Love, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Romantic, Serendipity, Solidarity
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POEM: Plodding Vivacious Nature
While I was busy Doing my busyness Over taking My competition Nature was successively Undertaking my previous busyness done Supplanting my decomposing legacy With crop worth feasting on In treating me As patience heel Going Won better Nature calls Barely … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Competition, Creation, Environmental, Hospitality, Life, Love, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Time
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POEM: Peppered With Violence
Bland and tasteless souls Often pepper with violence The salt of the earth Writing a vicious cycle In rehashed seasonings Winners of discontent The Fall’s harvest Yet even sow Hope springing eternal And summers of love As have know choice … Continue reading
POEM: Love Making
I was mistaken All those years Those sweetest ours Thinking I was making love When in truth Love was making me This love poem, as most of my poems, can be read several ways. Of course, the simplest reading is … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Community, Courage, God, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Life, Love, Love Poems, Mind, Mystery, Patience, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Reality, Relationships, Romantic, Spiritual, Truth, 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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