{"id":2184,"date":"2016-03-28T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2016-03-28T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:51:48","slug":"poem-peppered-with-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/poem-peppered-with-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Peppered With Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bland and tasteless souls<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Often pepper with violence<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The salt of the earth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Writing a vicious cycle<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In rehashed seasonings<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Winners of discontent<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Fall&#8217;s harvest<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yet even sow<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hope springing eternal<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And summers of love<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As have know choice<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In what sow ever fallowing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring is a season of hope.\u00a0 It may very well be no accident that the Easter season coincides with Spring.\u00a0 Spring is a profoundly palpable metaphor for resurrection in nature and inhuman experience a cross human history.\u00a0 That Spring follows Winter with perennial reliability seeds hope amidst the fallow seasons of human life and those cold spells witch bedevil the human heart from claiming its natural endowment of patience, hope, and love.\u00a0 Awe of the seasons of human life must navigate the epic realities of violence, proffered as both the cause and solution to all of our problems.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Violence-Will-Not-Silence-Us-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Violence-Will-Not-Silence-Us.gif\" alt=\"Violence Will Not Silence Us POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Life coexists with death and death coexists with life in the undulating pulse of human experience.\u00a0 The fear, even hatred, of death presence us too hour rationalization of lethal violence as the irreconcilable solution to an inescapable dilemma.\u00a0 Unfortunately, such fear and hatred, blithely beating the conundrum of war and repression, is incongruous with the true pulse of life.\u00a0 Winter happens.\u00a0 And sow does Spring.\u00a0 The eternal question posed is weather we cast our lot with Spring or Winter.\u00a0 To wear due wee target our lives?\u00a0 Untoward the tender shoot, or effacing bearing lives?\u00a0 Either weigh, Spring shows up.\u00a0 Due we poor our lives in too the riches of this earth, even if not living to seed what happens, daring that life will cede us?\u00a0 The quest in is up to us.\u00a0 Will we lift more than a single finger to the won-ness of humanity?\u00a0 I, for one, will root for all of my tender buds to emerge from winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s harvest Yet even sow Hope springing eternal And summers of love As have know choice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/poem-peppered-with-violence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,57,9,15],"tags":[294,335,385,428,462,431,559,388,305,359,273,379,387,658,94,17,107,316,314,163,203],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-war","category-peace","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-awe","tag-conundrum","tag-death","tag-experience","tag-fear","tag-heart","tag-history","tag-hope","tag-humanity","tag-life","tag-love","tag-nature","tag-patience","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-political","tag-poor","tag-rationalization","tag-resurrection","tag-violence","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Peppered With Violence | Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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