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Tag Archives: Poetry
POEM: Trump Ink
The man Who rant for President Commandeering in chief Playing his big invisible hand Dealt by his Daddy Warbucks Showing himself off As a selfie made man A Monopoly™ man Blowing his stack Of get out Of jail free Cards … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Creation, Donald Trump, Heaven, Hillary Clinton, Moral, Poems, Poetry, President, Republican, Responsibility, State, Sycophant, Time, Titanic, Truth
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POEM: A Constipated Citizenry
Not so deep Within the body politic A constipated citizenry Yearns to be free Crying out In a full groan democracy Mourning the dearth of moral fiber Humanity squat An abject lessen Lo expectations As number too Clinging to far-fetched … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Cynicism, Democracy, Donald Trump, Freedom, government, Hillary Clinton, History, Humanity, Irony, Modern, Moral, Mourning, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power
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POEM: The Iconoclassism of Godliness
She was in A class by her self Staring at her teacher In a too room school hows By two mirror subjects taut Assure as three Bound by know Student lones Only that body Of know ledge From the school … Continue reading
POEM: Wee Civil Lies: They Brutalize
We are prone Too civil lies The most savage saving Buy brutal lies As assuredly As they had Been stood up Just the same For their own Good Won morality for us None for them Hidden as mirror Human eyes … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, China, Death, Equality, Evil, Failure, Fear, Hate, Heart, Human Rights, Humanity, Imperialism, Justice, Life, Love, Morality, Nationalism, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Privilege, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Security, State, Terrorism, Violence, War
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POEM: Nazi Murder Trials, 1963
Courting the truth Their stories were tolled Not simply for just us But for awe of them Beyond monumental To re-member A broken body politic This poem was inspired by the 2015 German movie, Labyrinth of Lies, about a young … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Character, Citizens, Courage, Denial, Fascism, government, Healing, History, Humanity, Hypocrisy, Image, Justice, Learning, Love, Murder, National, Nationalism, Nazi, Obedience, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Redemption, Romantic, Short Poems, Socialism, Time, Truth, War, War Crimes, Women
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POEM: The Largesse Whole
Was he lacking Horse sense Eschewing Just A little bit Off The grid Frayed of being Triangulate To sum part he Prone to awe That is More than Life familiar Tripping unplugged Real he Into The largesse whole That you … Continue reading
POEM: Loving Your Enemas
The legal lists Were longing With who hurt And who not heard Attesting too How much they love They’re enemas Only wading For sue a side As eminent just us And inevitably knot Passing the smell test This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Awe, Christianity, Church, Creation, Defense, Enemies, Evil, Humanity, Humility, Imperialism, Life, Logic, Love, Modern, Morality, Nationalism, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Power, State, Truth, War, Worship
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POEM: Unannunciated Power
Power came to my home for dinner Well, not actually my home, rather my house Not in person, but through a representative Witch some defer to as a medium That would be TV In accuracy, as sum political add All … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, government, Hope, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Voters, Work
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POEM: When Butterflies Aren’t Free
The butterfly has landed A monarch of unspoiled nature As we’d taken over Urban land escapes Of green carpet bombing Convinced that lawn enforcement Must be On our side Sow naturally lying In trails Of never ending growth A cancer … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Environment, Life, Mind, mother nature, Mourning, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Toledo, Violence
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POEM: A Truth Foul
If you should believe The hole truth And nothing A butt the truth You may well be Full if it Perfectly primed For letting go Unable to be taken Any more By a singular won Given By an other This … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Attitude, Awe, Cynicism, Experience, Hope, Hubris, Humility, Ideology, Intimacy, Life, Moral, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Responsibility, Trust, Truth, Universe, Vulnerability
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POEM: 24/7 on I-75 — Owed To Trafficking Noise
24/7 on I-75 Only herd In the mourning Quiet scarce With the engines of freedom Racing vicious cycles In know way asking, “who cars?” As you whirr The buzz of the high way The humdrum of civilization The muffled rumble … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Capitalism, Consumerism, Freedom, God, Hope, Life, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Short Poems, Silence
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POEM: Carrots and Sticks
He came from the sticks And had Little taste For carrots He wood Just as soon Beat you As raze the son Those Sunday mournings Long a go This poem is about the vicious cycles of violence passed on from … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Domestic Violence, Equality, Experience, Future, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Short Poems, Violence
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POEM: Gift Hoarse
The dumb bell rang As he looked The present Like a gift horse in the mouth And in every witch way Reckon as knot so fine Looking forward and backward Of what might be Only seconds As has been A … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Experience, Foolish, Future, Gift, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Present, Puns, Silence, Time
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POEM: Morning Has Broke
Mourning is hear The bell tolls fore thee Riiiiiiiight Whatever Get up You had Left Right Left right Left Here is another Monday mourning poem for all who may be ambivalent or outright hate their work, particularly the screeching violence … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Creation, Culture, Experience, Hate, Heart, History, Job, Law, Lifestyle, Living Simply, Military, Money, Mourning, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Probability, Sabbath, Short Poems, Simplicity, Sleep, Success, Time, Violence, Work
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POEM: Love Is Scored
He did Not necessarily Believe In evil Though he found it Much easier To commit Than endure And hear in lies Won lessen As love is scored This poem is a tribute to apologists for evil everywhere. The lesser of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Amorality, Big Brother, Choices, Defense, Evil, Freedom, God, Hate, Immorality, Impersonal, Life, Love, Moral, Morality, Poems, Poetry, Projection, Rationalization, Responsibility, Time, Willingness
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POEM: Life As A Breeze
Life peers to me As a gentle breeze With fragrant harmonies In the tenderest victories Know longer bought a bout by yielding hope Prospecting in rock Dead set, vane certainties Or coarse inclinations While a sole breath moves through me … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Character, Cynical, Cynicism, Generosity, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Skepticism, Success, Time, Willingness
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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: The Wanders of Love
Sow marvel as Love wonders Among uninhibited meadows And the forgotten in down towns Wile in difference razes Its ugly ahead Only out lusting Less than a flower And eyes never looking into This poem is and ode to the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, God, Love, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Work
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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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