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Tag Archives: Poems
POEM: Sum How Present In A Stupefying Flash
Creation groans In pregnant expectancy More than Any one Ever anew In a singular couplet The quest in And the call out For who All Abel to hear Blood from ground Crying in relation To the curse of can and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Creation, Justice, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Solidarity
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POEM: Colloquial He
1. He lived 2. In a particular time 3. In a particular place And one Of his many editors Proferred the generic claim Putting fourth That he rote Colloquially And to this brand of righting He gave his highest, a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Colloquial, Funny, Hope, Money, Poems, Poetry, Reverence, Time, Trust
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POEM: Pick Pockets
More reliable than a GPS If surrounded by plenty And struck by want You are in a shop As goaled to led Buy that invisible hand Only wanting Too pick Your pockets You can’t buy happiness — but not for … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christmas, Evolution, Happiness, Irony, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Wealth
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POEM: Hell In A Handbasket
I would rather live… In a trailer That proverbial mobile homme Seeing stars when roofs are razed And nothing but realty at my back As awe of creation is present As I am Looked down upon Wading patiently fore that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Bible, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Culture, Evil, Existential, Faith, Fear, Foolish, God, Happiness, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Job, Life, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Present, Prison, Rules, Secrets, Silence, Soul, Status, Success, Time, Willingness, Wisdom
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POEM: Just Dew It
Round Mid night Countless drops Fall free In to the loving alms Of Mother Earth Making a mud pact With trees, meadow, and flower To dew wet sow ever They thirst for Life has an incredible capacity for renewal. As … Continue reading
POLITICAL POEM: The Bus of Times, The Worst of Times
His political career Hung in the balance Throw a certain number under the bus Or see bus production drop precipitously This short poem recognizes a brutal utilitarianism in politics, which is present at most any level. Using people as means … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Economic, Economy, Efficiency, Human Rights, Humanity, Impersonal, Meaning, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Present, Radical, Relationships, Religion, Respect, Sacred, Short Poems, Time
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HOPE POEM: Why God Invented Dark
God invented dark As a respite From high noon That searing sun Of which mortal men are made To see Sow much more Innumerable lofty stars Unseen in mere day dreams Beyond won’s highest hopes Awe at once A mist … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Control, Death, Diversity, Donald Trump, Dreams, Existential, Fear, God, Heart, Hope, Life, Mind, Moral, Nature, Opposites, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Reality, Skepticism, Sleep, Time, Unity, Values
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POEM: Unleashed
As anger and grief morphs Into the habits and vagaries of daily life The heart is circled by its waggin’s In loo of revolutions more roil As if Too be stuck In The mettle Only to be Haunted by cursory … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anger, Authoritarian, Awe, Balance, Change, Consciousness, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Elections, Future, Heart, Hope, Justice, Life, Loss, Misogyny, Muslim, Muslims, National, Nationalism, Outrage, Poems, Poetry, Power, Racism, Revolutionary, Sexism, sexual assault, Solidarity, State, Supreme Court, Surreal, Time, Voting, Women, Work, Xenophobia
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POEM: That Arguable Grip
He argued Fore cynicism Farced to choose between What’s left What is right And he one handily With won hand tied behind his back Soundly Like the slow clap With the only hope That he is not contagious And that … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynicism, Dreams, Helplessness, Hope, Joy, Normal, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Work, Worldview
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POEM: The Reason Donald Trump Sucks
The reason Donald Trump sucks Is that he is full of himself And the vacuum created Can’t help Butt purse His lips Like the Donald, this poem speaks for itself.
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
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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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ACTIVIST POEM: With Eyes Fixed — Owed To Shannon Frye
She was tired Enough Fore sentries of human bondage Still Those precious wons With eyes fixed On the prize Forever remanding us Stay qualm And carry on This poem was inspired by Shannon Frye’s blazing commentary that I recently included in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Dream, Heart, Hope, Inspiration, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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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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ELECTION POEM: Won Thing In Common
We had Won thing in common We were consumers Of the evil of two lessers As if Only just At last Defeat the enemy Within Hour strangled democracy Won wring Too rule them all Sending US too Our eternal reward … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Alienation, Blessed, Citizens, Conformity, Consumerism, Democracy, Elections, Evil, Helplessness, Humanity, Inane, Jobs, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Rebellion, Sacred, Surreal, Time, Virtual Reality, Voting, Work
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POEM: Creator of Heaven Unearth
Oh God Awe might he Creator of heaven unearth Your sun trying to peer through What is mirrorly mist Between every human face Won and the same Unending cycles Set up for yielding What is seeing bye many As a … Continue reading
POEM: Possibility Verses
Her mastery Of the glorious bounty Of possibility Taunts those enslaved By the vain security Of mere probabilities This poem is a tribute to the existential divide between possibility and probability. Possibility is the purview of free will, introducing new … Continue reading
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Tagged Control, Creativity, Events, Existential, Free Will, Freedom, Life, Meaning, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Security, Short Poems, Universe, Vanity
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POEM: Of Coarseness
Don’t put won over me F every won Flunk sexism Flunk racism Flunk classism Flunk nationalism And sow on And sow on In effability Of coarse They say Vulgarity vulgarity Every ware I look In just US The capital of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alienation, Awareness, Awe, Capitalism, Classism, Crude, Employment, Experience, Farce, Injustice, Law, Life, Morality, Nationalism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Privilege, Propriety, Racism, Sacred, Sexism, Society, Status, Superficial, Surreal, Tao, Virtue
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ACTIVIST POEM: Our Ayes Will Have It
She had Enough Of half-baked politicians She kneaded democracy Here and now As the yeast she could do Sounding off To those who might Listen Wee choir not A grand stand To lift every voice and sing Wringing well The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Change, Death, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Faith, Fear, God, Greed, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Minorities, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Present, Privilege, Reactionary, Work
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ELECTION POEM: Owed Too An Election: The Don’s Power Grab
How grate thou art Of the power grab Too expose the private part of US As innocence on the lam Sow so sorry As if He is just Exercising His first amend meant Rites Sow so owed An election Fantasies … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Donald Trump, Dreams, Misogyny, Poems, Poetry, Power, sexual assault, Trust, Women
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