Tag Archives: Work

POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Top Pun

Community organizing can be difficult and thankless. I am grateful for those who do such work. Thanks! Still, at times, won’s work can become a bearin’ place, yielding cynicism and skepticism, even of those who appreciate you. Tossing aside potential … Continue reading →

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POEM: Optimism — A Buy Product of Hope

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Top Pun

There is a difference between optimism and hope. Optimism is about the inertia and trajectory of facts on the ground, while hope is a metaphysical reality that seeps into life of awe kinds amidst a dizzying array of means. Hope … Continue reading →

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POEM: Let Them Eat Bullets

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Top Pun

Flour power, not bombs. Are we fed-up with forced mass starvation yet? Let Them Eat Bullets From ashes to ashes And dust to dust Famine sweeps Gaza And the prison guards feel threatened By the unherd Starving fore a tension … Continue reading →

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POEM: Seeking Haven — Deed On A Rival

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is a poem about our nation’s recalcitrance in welcoming immigrants and refugees. Wile we use cramped legalisms to incarcerate our hearts, many speak openly in racist and violent terms. I strongly suspect that we would do better as a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Winning The Stockholm Sin-drome

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Top Pun

This is another in my series of poems on artificial intelligence. I suspect that the “wow factor” of some early AI uses will serve as a sucker punch for a largely bloodless beating. While I am skeptical of many AI … Continue reading →

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POEM: That Leader Ship

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Top Pun

I wrote this poem during the last Trump administration, of which I work and pray will be the last Trump administration. That Leader Ship What if Everybody Did that Wading among prophetless idles Spinning their wills Ennui go But how … Continue reading →

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POEM: Hanging Buy A Thread

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Top Pun

Here is a Monday poem for those who may be feeling that impending work weak and need a bit of fortification. Hanging Buy A Thread There he hung Buy a thread Of hope Peering mid heir Soully able Too due … 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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POEM: Take a Collective Breath

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a rare combination of my life as a poet and a public health worker. This poem juxtaposes the personal option of some to choose organic food but the collective difficulty of choosing clean air. Some times we … Continue reading →

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POEM: It’s Time

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Top Pun

This short poem is a particular melding of my love of poetry and work for social justice. It’s Time There is a time for awe things And awe things knot There is a time for writing poetry And for righting … Continue reading →

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POEM: That Hire Power

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Top Pun

Sometimes when I due things my weigh, it just leads me back to the eternal truth that things work out better when I employ awe. That Hire Power That hire power Put me on Notice Halve it my weigh A … Continue reading →

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POEM: Repleting Lies

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Top Pun

War is fertile territory for hyperbole, to put it kindly. More to the point, war is built on lies. Big lies. Little lies. Really big lies. Truth is the first casualty of war — most of the rest are civilians. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Unentitled Ekphrasis 247

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Top Pun

Ekphrasis is a description of a work of visual art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise. This ekphratic poem is about the classically unassuming (“unentitled”) still life painting of a bowl of fruit. Since this type of painting is … Continue reading →

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POEM: North Pole

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem was inspired by my lack of sense of direction in a high rise, where both directions I looked seemed like south to me. Of course, the only place on earth where every direction you look south is the … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Ark of History

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Top Pun

Martin Luther King, Jr. said that “the arc of history bends toward justice.” I share this hope, and plan to add my share of acts and just living. May we all join in blessed solidarity and work to tell history … Continue reading →

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POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Top Pun

Here is a poem a bout AI, artificial intelligence. This is a poem with ATTITUDE!  Today’s news included this: Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. With this poem, I throw down the gauntlet to … Continue reading →

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POEM: Awkward Period

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Top Pun

Awkward Period I am just Sow trying To navigate Well And empty well In this awkward period Between birth and death Life presents an unending series of challenges for which we can never be fully prepared. This truth embeds a … Continue reading →

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POEM: The World and Change

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Top Pun

This is a poem of hope and resistance. I find it easy to ponder all of the scary challenges the world offers. I sometimes need to remind myself that a deep understanding of how the world doesn’t work also comes … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Dog Edit My Homework

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Top Pun

I have encountered many opportunities to attend writers workshops and such. The impulse for me to attend has never arose. My style of poetry is free — and writefully worth every penny! Thus, this poem: The Dog Edit My Homework … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Child Got Their Shot

Posted on June 6, 2023 by Top Pun

A poem that came from know wear… The Child Got Their Shot The child got their shot Not at earnest learning Or playful preoccupation Not at hard work rewarded Or hopes fully fed The child got their shot A bullet … Continue reading →

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