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Top Pun's mission is to maximize prophets. Top Pun creates serious, funny, and seriously funny peace and justice designs which are available on your choice of products such as buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. Top Pun blogs to highlight additional facets of his word artistry such as pun-filled poetry and funny political satire, free posters, as well as political actions of local and global importance -- and don't forget the noncommercial, public health radio show available online, Just for the Health of It . Top Pun's serious playfulness ever reminds us that justice is no yoke, and the pun is mightier than the sword!
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
POEM: Sound of One Hand Clapping
What is the sound of one hand clapping? For many, it is a slap of the forehead in exasperation For some, it is a slap in the face of the asker Could someone lend a hand on this one Without … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Consciousness, Enlightenment, Life, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Zen
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POEM: Poetry From Afar
I once saw poetry from afar Hopelessly afar Its distance was too great to travel That distance from the head to the heart So I looked down Still My continuous, comfortable cowardice was overcome By an irresistible force My head … Continue reading
POEM: Autobiography Excerpt
The authorities’ lack of investigatory skills Were more than made up By his incriminating honesty
Posted in Poems, Political Action
Tagged Authorities, Honesty, Protest Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: She Came
She came down the street With such a scowl Such a deep… Well… One-couldn’t-imagine demeanor Her whole body Like a wrecking ball Laying waste To awe before her Everyone’s back to this wall Only hoping To escape The coming wrath … Continue reading
POEM: Rule 161
Rule 161: If trying to avoid death Results in avoiding life You are not avoiding death You are avoiding life Yep, if something results in the opposite of what you intend, then wisdom it ain’t.
POEM: Chrysalis of Security
I shed my chrysalis of security Arising as a butterfly Only then realizing I was not the worm That I appeared I am struck by how the quest for security can easily become a prison. Whether the quest for security … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Compromise, Life, Money, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Rationalization, Risk, Security, Short Poems, Zero Risk
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POEM: Divine Lover
One day I asked God What is it all about? There was only silence But with the look he gave me We’ve been lovers Ever since
POEM: Worship Here and There
I heard that many people will travel miles To go to church I find so much worship between here and there I rarely make it anymore
POEM: Where Lost Socks Go
The other day I stumbled upon That place where lost socks go And I thought to myself Of course, that makes sense I would love to tell you where it is But then I would have to kill you I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Cliche, Funny, Hell, Love, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Violence
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POEM: Illiteracy
I am illiterate in hundreds of languages And more so of the ones I know not of At least that’s what a little birdie told me Or so I think I’m not really sure of These languages for the birds
Justice For Danny Brown $149.02
Today, I have to go down to the Toledo Municipal Court and pay my fine and court costs of $149 for “illegal posting” of Justice for Danny Brown stickers and Julia Bates WANTED posters all over downtown, surrounding the Lucas … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Political Action
Tagged Crime, Danny Brown, Debt, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Illegal, Justice, Law, Life, Money, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poor, Protests, Society, State, Toledo
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POEM: Squandered Life
I have squandered my life On poetry And making love If only I had kept a cleaner house Said no one ever!
POEM: Empty Plates With Dancing Tales
Empty Plates With Dancing Tales A crowd gathers A performer spins A dozen plates on poles Like angels dancing on pinheads How many are possible?! Worthy of a few coins Fore a collection of small bills [Unmarked except by bankers] … Continue reading
POEM: Past, Future, Now
Past, Future, Now Past Future Looking back Looking forward It makes my head spin Except for now And now And now…
POEM: Unfed Just Desserts
Poets are born, die, crushed by writer’s block or a cruel world, and are reborn again and again. The world can be a desert at times, sometimes worse. Yet, as a child, an infant in the arms of a mysterious … Continue reading
POEM: Can God Make A Billboard SO BIG That…
God is bigger than any box or labels we can imagine. I think of those epic movie beginnings where the letters scroll across the whole screen, at most one at a time, so you really have to pay attention to … Continue reading
POEM: Nature’s Guardin’
This poem goes out to all those who showed up on May Day for the groundbreaking of Toledo Occupy the Garden. Nature’s Guardin’ Nature spills From pots unpurchased It knows no law but its own Openly heiring its dirty secrets … Continue reading
POEM: I Suspect
Here is a May Day poem, where metaphysical optimism crashes into empirical skepticism. Will we simply crash and burn? Or, will we rise like a Phoenix from the ashes? Stay tuned… I suspect I suspect God is The greatest Un-detective … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Art, Conundrum, Culture, God, Grace, History, Labor, Law, Life, Love, May Day, Mock, Optimism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Probability, Revolution, Science, Skepticism, Truth
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