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Tag Archives: Reverence
POEM: Mine Your Own Busyness
Here is a poem about the sacred and profane journey toward presence of mind: Atop a mountain of undertakings He overlooked his guru Desperately wanting to be A little slower With deaf-defying pleas As the guru came fourth With quiet … Continue reading
A Spiritual Autobiography
I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group. While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Gay, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anxiety, Art, Authority, Beautiful, Bible, Blessed, Buddhism, Business, Catholic, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Disobedience, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Crude, Death, Diversity, Draft Registration, Environment, Events, Experience, Faith, Family, Food, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Hope, Humor, Irreverence, Jester, Job, Journey, Justice, Kids, Law, leadership, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, Mennonite, Military, Mind, Mom, Money, Mystic, Nutrition, Obedience, Pacifism, Pastor, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Political, Poor, Poverty, Powers that be, Prayer, President, Public Health, Religious, Reverence, Science, Security, Serenity, Social Justice, Spiritual, Stewardship, Success, Theology, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Vegetarianism, War, Work, World Hunger, Worship, Zen
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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: The Curator
I am The curator Of your infinite beauty Privy to collections timeless And in real time Streaming glorious tributaries To the art of who you are This is a poem about the glorious privilege in close relationships of having unique … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beauty, Character, Conflict, Creation, Experience, God, Holy, Imagination, Joy, Life, Love, Love Poems, Muse, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Reality, Relationships, Reverence, Short Poems, Stupid, Time, Universe, Work
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POEM: A Brother Lying
Prey fore the dead In the name of Jesus In resurrection of those soully asleep Getting a phallus rise Out of Christianity That is, US More sow then radical Islam In violate fundamental lists Dissembling faith, hope, and love As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Christian, Christianity, Competition, Death, Democracy, Domination, Faith, Family, God, Grace, Heart, Hope, Image, Islam, Jesus, Justice, Lazy, Life, Love, Meaning, Militarism, Military, Moral, Muslim, Muslims, Nationalism, Nature, Pacifism, Patriotism, People of The Book, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Racism, Radical, Religion, Religious, Resurrection, Reverence, Sacred, Sacrifice, State, Terrorism, Violence, War, Worldview
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POEM: Zombie Apocalypse — Carry On
In habiting That thin lyin’ Between living and undead Pray and prey Plodding for survival so chaste Eerie reverence For awe virtually unmoving They’ve got You’re numb-er Too many to re-pulse To take account of De-sending from cubicles and proto-calls … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Apocalypse, Art, Awe, Culture, Existential, Fear, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Genius, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Incarnation, Institutions, Life, Nature, Power, Powers that be, Present, Progress, Projection, Reverence, Soul, Suffering, Surreal, Work, zombie
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POEM: Fore Awe That Can Be Souled
He lived buy The law of the jungle Except for that whole jungle thing And law Fore that madder Welcome too Living bye A-morality A-weigh of living A-lien from nature As not giving One ascent Fore awe that can be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Character, Competition, Death, Evil, Experience, Fear, Gift, Greed, Human Nature, Humanity, Inspiration, Law, Life, Moral, Morality, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Respect, Reverence, Soul, Time, Violence
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POEM: Wee Lives
Wee live In a whirled Determined To be Or not to be Making head weigh At an impassable gait In effable hustle A jeer of our peers That hurry can knock us down Or give momentary flights Holding out that … Continue reading
POEM: You’re Ass It’s Monetized
Monetize You’re ass It’s What Civilized People Due This is a good Monday poem, as millions return to jobs where their value as human beings takes a back seat to their value as moneymaking machines. In our capitalistic culture, when … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Culture, Economy, Humanity, Idolatry, Irony, Job, Jobs, Monetize, Money, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Reverence, Short Poems, Work
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POEM: Needling a Haystack
The stockpiles of human knowledge grow exponentially And wisdom, like needling a haystack Says, “What the hay?!” Finding better questions is where it’s at Not how fast you can shovel it Nor how big your pitchfork is Rather what thread … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Argument, Arrogance, Attitude, Character, Curiosity, Cynicism, Facts, Faith, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Generosity, God, Humility, Ideology, Intellect, Kindness, Meaning, Militant, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Power, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Reverence, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Transcendent, Trust, Unity, Wisdom
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POEM: The Game of Life
One day I realized The game of life And going back In the box Only to find The rules had been lost Long a go And still The game goes on This short poem plays with the notion that life … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Attitude, Authority, Awe, Buddhism, Change, Character, China, Consciousness, Courage, Creativity, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Foolish, Freedom, God, Greed, Hate, Hope, Humor, Hypocrisy, Idealism, Insanity, Institutionalize, Irreverence, Joy, Life, Love, Militarism, Mind, Modern, Obedience, Pacifism, Play, Playfulness, Political, President, Psychology, Questioning, Rage, Reality, Religion, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rhetoric, Rich, Rules, Sacred, Sincerity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Success, Truth, Universe, Utopia, Violence, War, Willingness, Wisdom, Zen
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POEM: If I Were King
If I were king of the world My first official act Would be to resign as king It is a common fantasy to be a powerful ruler so that you could enact your will over others. This short poem is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Christian, Creation, Democracy, Elite, Experience, God, Jesus, Law, Logic, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rules, Science, Selfish, Short Poems, Temptation, Worship
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POEM: I Could Have Swore
I Could Have Swore Backs against the wall And faceless No name to call Wandering If anyone Ever Will get their drift Homie-less At the center A cross person Surrounded by thieves And gawkers In a sea of blindness In … Continue reading
Obama Bookends State of Union Address With Militarism
Obama Bookends State of Union Address With Militarism President Barack Obama said a lot of nice things in his State of the Union address last night. While these days I don’t pay much attention to what politicians say, I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Disease, Domination, Hope, Injustice, Militarism, Military, National, Nationalism, Nonviolent, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, Power, President, Religion, Reverence, Revolutionary, State, Status, Status Quo, Violence
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