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Tag Archives: Poetry
POEM: Amateurs and Prose
There are moments When I feel Like such an amateur Then the payments come So much more Than I could ever hope for The only falling short Is ever thinking That life Is fated to be Any won thing Except … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Beautiful, Debt, Experience, Generosity, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Hope, Life, Luck, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Reality, Serendipity
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POEM: Her Voice
Her voice could be heard Three generations within earshot Yet the man in front of her Was two ears short of listening At times she spoke Simply to convince herself That she could Due more Then listen Wading for something … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Children, Classism, Compassion, Culture, Dehumanizing, Disenfranchised, Equality, Experience, Family, Heterosexual, Human Race, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Sex, Sexism, Society, Truth, War, Women
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POEM: Davis-Besse Nuclear Disaster – “Good Job”
It was early Monday mourning When the Davis-Besse nuclear plant Finally ruptured At the base of Lake Eerie Weeping poison From the once-great lakes Now a watery grave for both sellers And consumers Of atomic drivel For what human remains … Continue reading
POEM: Fermi Too
From Detroit to Toledo I drive by and by Monroe’s Fermi 2 Nuclear waste tower Falling over Penning only A plume of death In place of this poet A prophet taking Having called for its decommissioning Offers no comfort Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Commercial, Creation, Death, God, Insanity, Life, Loss, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Police, Power, Prophet, Protesters, Security, Toledo
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POEM: Pseudoscience
After a cursory perusal Of your uncorroborated facts In your unverified application We are pleased to accept The donation of your brain To pseudoscience The great thing about donating your brain to pseudoscience is that such brains are largely unused. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged algorithm, America, Conspiracy, Economy, Facts, government, Irony, Life, Literacy, Logic, Media, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Proprietary, Pseudoscience, Science, Short Poems, Truth, Western Civilization
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3D POEM: My Twisted Uni-verse (on a Mobius Strip)
This 3D POEM, My Twisted Uni-verse, may very well be the first poem ever written to be read on a Mobius Strip, made from a plain strip of paper with a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a … Continue reading
POEM: High Cost of Employment
Despite the high cost of employment It is still quite popular This short poem is a takeoff or elaboration of Will Rogers’ infamous statement: Despite the high cost of living, it’s still quite popular. As wage slavery continues largely unabated, … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Creation, Employment, Freedom, Health Care, Hope, Income, Joy, Labor, Life, Meaning, Monetize, Money, Obama, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Slavery, Time, Work, Workplace
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POEM: Rutherford
Rutherford was a man Whose cruelty was only Acceded by his ignorance And all kinds of people Parted with his presence A gift to know one Leased of awe himself And if you ran into him In all likely hood … Continue reading
POEM: Heaven Unearth
Heaven Unearth Place Your hand in mine And I will Skip The rest Of the whirled My feat barely Touching The ground Where heaven and earth meet Together Giving thanks For earthly existence And your heavenly Place Saying a prayer … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Dream, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Inspiration, Love, Love Poems, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prayer, Prose, Risk, Valentine
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POEM: Eying Them Apples
Eying Them Apples From his firm bed rock Of unassailable logic However earnest He couldn’t quite grasp love At home in more gossamer venues Wafting Teasingly just Out of reach Not able to pick up Love’s plucky de-meaner From afar … Continue reading
POEM: As The Tao Plunges
As The Tao Plunges I seek boundless horizons Beyond what can be billed What you can have Fore walls No bull work A retainer for passable living A cistern to dammed dreams Reining upon you Only knot to be brothered … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Advertising, America, Awe, Balance, Beautiful, Celebrity, Confucianism, Creation, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Harmony, Heart, History, Humanity, Identity, Image, Life, Logic, Mind, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Propriety, Questions, Reality, Risk, Rules, Sociopathy, Superficial, Tao, Time, timeless question, Vegetarianism, Western Civilization, Work, Workplace
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POEM: Wolves in Elephants’ Clothing
Wolves in Elephants’ Clothing Somewhat sheepishly She whispered Beware of wolves in elephants’ clothing Lurking about Only looking Like they want To kick some ass Though you can skulk in style If you have A grand Old party Securing your … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Business, Change, Christian, Christianity, Climate Change, Courage, Crime, Death, Elections, Evolution, Experience, Free market, Gandhi, God, GOP, Greed, Health Care, History, Humanity, Hypocrisy, Ironic, Jesus, Life, Market, Nonviolent, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Prayer, Present, Rage, Religion, Religious, Republican, Revolution, Sacrifice, Science, Skepticism, taxes, Truth, Voters, War, Work
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POEM: I Will Join The One, There is No Other
Alone Where is God in that? Does salvation lie in community? Wherever two or more gather In character At present will be God Therefore, I will join the one One who was left behind The one who’s going places no … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Buddhist, Character, Community, Compassion, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Enemies, Enlightenment, Faith, Genius, God, Jesus, Journey, Life, Love, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Opposites, Passion, Piety, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Present, Reactionary, Relationships, Solidarity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Status Quo, Time
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POEM: Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl Sunday Guess what I herd It’s Super Bowl™ Sabbath Quite coincidentally on Sunday And I’m not sure who’s playing who Perhaps the Cowboys and Indians Or the Lions and the Christians The eternal argument weather Its just A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Christian, Commercial, Competition, Culture, Domination, Exceptionalism, Faith, Life, Love, Money, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Sabbath, Sports, Time, War, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: State of the Union – Barack Obama
The State of the Union In come in equality Barack Hussein Obama Raising a question Of will he deliver His second state Of the union Different than the first Shot from Chicagoland Now addressing From 1600 sumpin’ Pennsylvania Avenue A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Community, Economic, Education, Equality, Experience, Family, Fear, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Identity, Income, Inequality, Intellect, Irony, Joy, Law, Lawyer, Lazy, Life, Minority, Money, Navy, Obama, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Present, President, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Rhetoric, Science, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Status, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, War
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POEM: The Autobiography of Tao Rex
The opening lines Of the autobiography Of Tao Rex Alias Not Neil: Neil was a man of substance Who was not waiting For it to come into style If in the course of life He should cross Kingmakers And Job … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Capitalism, Character, Christian, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Culture, Faith, Gift, God, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Heaven, Human Rights, Humanity, Idolatry, Jewish, Job, Justice, Life, Meaning, Mind, Modern, Murder, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Productivity, Radical, Reality, Respect, Sabbath, Sacred, Spiritual, State, Tao, Transcendent, Trust, Truth, Unity, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worldview
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