Tag Archives: Time

POEM: Canary in a Coal Mine

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Top Pun

Canaries were used in coal mines as an early detection system for toxic gasses. Canaries are particularly susceptible to methane and carbon monoxide. Canaries will get sick or die before it affects humans, miners. Still, the miners have to respect … Continue reading →

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POEM: Committed Kamala and Those Naught

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Top Pun

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris met briefly backstage before a rally with a pair of “uncommitted” movement representatives seeking a U.S. arms embargo on Israel to stem the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Harris exhibited empathy and agreed to have her … Continue reading →

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POEM: Owed to Muhammad Ali

Posted on August 1, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem after watching, again, my favorite documentary of all time: When We Were Kings. This film is about the leadup and spectacle that is known as the “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire, the heavyweight boxing title … Continue reading →

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POEM: Father Violence

Posted on July 14, 2024 by Top Pun

In the wake of the Trump assassination tempt, a time to examine whatever flavor of violence we might, find attractive. Father Violence Search your heart America I am your father Slamming shots Wile preying for won’s enemies Something something is … Continue reading →

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POEM: Out of Place, Out of Time

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Top Pun

A little mysticism for the day… Out of Place, Out of Time He got the good Look At that beyond time and space In that gape between death and life An engrossing gawk Trashing Every proposition passable What can One … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Age of Know Surprise

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is a tribute to the kerfuffle of President and candidate Biden’s recent debate performance. If I were to pick an alter-ego other than “Top Pun,” on some days I might choose “Cassandra” the Greek mythological character fated to … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Universe Winks

Posted on May 5, 2024 by Top Pun

Have you ever had the universe wink at you? The Universe Winks A thousand millennia ago Before you were A twinkle in your parents’ eyes A son of another galaxy Shone brightly In that precise direction Of whom you would … Continue reading →

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POEM: Our Fear Less Leader

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Top Pun

If aiding and abetting genocide does not make you unfit for the highest public office, then I don’t know what would. I am sick and tired of being told we have to vote for the least totally unfit candidate for … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Mirror Student

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Top Pun

Looking at myself seems to be a common denominator in successfully working through interpersonal issues. Reflections from others and the world around me can be very instructive on the nature of my inner life and its knotty workings. Taking care … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Walker, Please

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: People of Consequence

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Top Pun

Our actions have consequences. We are people of consequence. The ends are determined by the means. Unfortunately, the inanity in our culture, which may, much of the time, seem harmless in it meaninglessness, meets up with epic crimes against humanity. … Continue reading →

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POEM: An Eve with Netanyahu

Posted on March 8, 2024 by Top Pun

As President Biden campaigns on a pro-democracy platform against the corrupt Donald Trump, he is tag teaming genocide in Gaza with his long-time friend, the corrupt Israeli PM Netanyahu, the “Bibi” brain and heart of the military onslaught and deadly … Continue reading →

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POEM: Genocide Joe

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Top Pun

Monday mourning. Last week President Joe Biden spoke of being hopeful about a ceasefire deal in Gaza. I must confess, I scheduled posting this last week, expecting the likely outcome of genocide unabated and genocide Joe abidin’ his time. I … Continue reading →

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POEM: Winning’s Everything

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Top Pun

We live in an era where everything is divided . . . into winning and losing, souled to the highest bitter. The “losers” of this world will rise up, the great unwatched — the revolution will not be televised. Winning’s … Continue reading →

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POEM: Walking the Walk [Owed to My Friend Tarry]

Posted on January 26, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem is inspired by an elegantly simple recounting of what is a true friend, as told by my former wife — that is, when you are walking with a group of people, the one who stops and waits for … Continue reading →

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POEM: Soul Sushi

Posted on January 25, 2024 by Top Pun

This poem ponders the “water we live in” as most humans are routinely heedless of their lives deep ending on eating flesh to survive. Soul Sushi Once upon a time Creatures of the see Looking up A barrel In countered … Continue reading →

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POEM: Taking Auction

Posted on January 20, 2024 by Top Pun

I’ve been no’in to say, “If you are going to sell your soul, make sure you get a good price.” There are people of auction. There are people of action. Be the latter, taking us to a higher place. Taking … Continue reading →

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POEM: Catchy Zzzz’s

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Top Pun

I see much of life as a struggle to maintain a vigorous consciousness and cultivate a vital, life-affirming conscience. I see the powers that be as offering a vain, numbing “contentment,” free of inconvenient or uncomfortable realities. Security becomes distancing … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Mazing Grays — Owed to Racist Color Blindness

Posted on January 18, 2024 by Top Pun

During the Republican primary election, we are in the racist shit, more than usual. In Republic can due fashion, in a run away of endemic white supremacy, we hear of our civil war as only peripherally related to slavery, and … Continue reading →

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POEM: Owed Time Religion

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Top Pun

There very well may be a nexus between now and eternity, yet I find it helpful to consider now enough. Owed Time Religion Some in cyst That there religion Holds time in memorial Preaching the hear after Weather buy work … Continue reading →

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