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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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- What ̂ a Choice ̂ Life
- POEM: Birdbrains AND Muscle Aheads
- POEM: A Lulu of a Year
- POEM: Giddy, Up
- POEM: Rorschach Testy
- POEM: Will Fullness
- POEM: Vary Religious
- POEM: Shakespeare – Owed to Dead White Men
- POEM: Blue Prince of Life
- POEM: Unkept
- POEM: Re-framed?
- POEM: Corporate Toons – Owed to Commercial Soundtracks
- POEM: Frank and Steinway
- POEM: Basket Cases
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POEM: Knot the Boss of Me
Last night, at a poetry reading, a fellow poet, Joe Sparks, introduced his poem as “the last poem of 2025.” This sparked this poem… Knot the Boss of Me He declared With surprising certainty Sow free from doubt Heed ridden … Continue reading
POEM: Without Papers
I am certifiable but technically not certified… Without Papers I woke In God knows where In plays Bound soully By rivers, mountains, and sky Unknown to imaginary lines of men Where awe is well Free Flowing Beyond dammed nations In … Continue reading
What ̂ a Choice ̂ Life
Beware of unsolicited prophets out and about… What ̂ a Choice ̂ Life As I was Busy wading For something too happen Pretty much anything The man On the bench Offered me Unsolicited ad Vice What you no Could fill … Continue reading
POEM: A Lulu of a Year
I wrote this poem in honor of our oldest grandchild’s first birthday. Seven years young now. A Lulu of a Year Lovely little lady Lulu You are a gift to us awe Or more precisely: awwwwww 12-9-18 The perfect combination … Continue reading
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POEM: Giddy, Up
I am happy to report that I frequently get giddy at the awesomeness of life… Giddy, Up I cried out For knew normal A cross ages Through and through daze Over and over agin Until be for I new it Got … Continue reading
POEM: Blue Prince of Life
I wrote this poem on the occasion of my friend Sean Nestor’s 40th birthday. There is a lot to unpack — just as with Sean! I gave a simple framed copy of this poem, without author info, to unsully the … Continue reading
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POEM: Unkept
This short poem is a companion poem to the poem following it, written 12 years earlier. This poem offers a different view of my bursting heart: one of overflowing joy rather than sadness. Both happen to be true — sometimes … Continue reading
POEM: Re-framed?
A friend once called me “the king of re-framing.” I just see this as taking any experience or situation and making sense of it through the frame of my world view, my most basic assumptions about the world. I strongly … Continue reading
POEM: Meet Up
Worth the admission prize… Meet Up I must admit When God and I meet up I keep minutes Though in awe Honest Seams amor Like ours Somewhere between Novel Punch line Or just teas Weather God’s plays Or my plays … Continue reading
POEMS: God Rains on The Just and The Unjust
This poem is about hubris, specifically that dividing lyin’ between our powerful tendency to favor our own interests, subjective or not, over others who are often reduced to means toward ends, without equal favor. I find the axiom that God … Continue reading
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Tagged Enemies, God, Hubris, Jesus, Love
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POEM: Undergound Man
Much of the life of a plant goes on unseen under ground in the root system. I suspect that most of the good work in humanity happens largely out of sight… Undergound Man Won might not see me As I … Continue reading
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Tagged Existential
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POEM: Sea Change
Are you the king (or queen) of your own life? If not, who or what has veto power? This poem is a meditation on being the change you want to see in the world… Sea Change What was he posed … Continue reading
POEM: Laugh, Lord
Holy self-deprecating… Laugh, Lord I was looking At God Straight in the face Soully able to say You made me Laugh, Lord
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POEM: My Life Projected
This poem is a reflection on my calling to simple living, in what I sometimes call semi-voluntary, semi-poverty. I find the trappings much less entrapping than what passes for normal… My Life Projected Some may take A mirror glimpse Of … Continue reading
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POEM: Gaping Whole
I see nonviolence as a lifelong, life-longing invitation to do better. We can awe ways do better. Of coarse, active nonviolence is risky because the whirled is replete with violence of all sorts: for personal or tribal material gain, for … Continue reading
POEM: My Asthma
Sometimes, it seems that I am a little too connected to the world… My Asthma Just The other day To God I in choir Singing my wheezy song Why did you give me asthma? She hummed long Something concerning My … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Environment, Environmental, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature
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POEM: Stenographer Pool
I love those days when poetry flows… Stenography Pool God kneads more Peephole in His stenographer pool But what Due I no? Just calling Hymn like I see him
NO KINGS Bike Ride — I AM ANTIFA, Be VERY Unafraid!
Here are a couple of pictures from my bike ride along the entire NO KINGS protest along miles of Monroe St. in Toledo. I distributed 100+ yellow signs as I greeted the joyful resisters in ANTIFA-land. I AM ANTIFA. I … Continue reading
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POEM: From Sum Wear Ails
This poem goes out to everyone who, in witnessing human unkind, has ever felt as a sojourner or alien in this world… From Sum Wear Ails I due not Live on This plan it Yet I here The call Of … Continue reading