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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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Category Archives: About Top Pun
POEM: Ambitions Sunk
This dude abides, as life is awesome and awe full awe of the time. Ambitions Sunk My ambitions are sunk In the firmaments of the universe And whatever verses arise Yea, no madder what versus This whirled stirs Nay, I … Continue reading
MEMORIAL POEMS for my mom, Lois Rutt
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY AWE! My mom, Lois Rutt, died just short of 90-years-old, on September 27, 2022. I wrote a set of 14 poems for her memorial service around the theme of one of her favorite Bible verses: “For now … Continue reading
POEM: Weather Sadness or Joy
This poem extolls the value of feeling deeply, both in sadness and joy. Weather Sadness or Joy I sea In a soul tear The whole whirled And folks in choir Am I Awe right And weather sadness Or joy Such … Continue reading
POEM: Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode
Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode It was plane to sea That he wanted too be Immortal eyes A high And might he quest In Flying hi And lo That mystical soup And what can return Ashore thing … Continue reading
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POEM: Sow Backwards, NOW WON
This poem is an ode to my dyslexia and mysticism. I, a scribe, my neurodivergent perspective, naturally playing with dancing words and ideas juxtaposed, as an apt channel for mysticism, a love of mystery and cryptically unfolding life. Sow Backwards, … Continue reading
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POEM — What Comes: Of Police Helicopters
I wrote this poem on May Day, 2023, and didn’t publish it online till now. On occasion, I walk or bike across my neighborhood, the Old West End, to sit outside the Toledo Museum of Art, to write a poem … Continue reading
POEM: Awe, Led, Goaled
Writing poetry can be surprising. Awe, Led, Goaled Awe I know is Words are alchemy Turning led to goaled Before I may even no What that is
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POEM: Calling Inaudible
Here is a playful poem about the silence essential for me being an outspoken, unspoken word artist. Also, this poem teases one of my rare envies, that of having musical talent — which I do not have. Calling Inaudible If … Continue reading
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POEM: That’s Wearing on a Poet’s Life
Poets are famously unread. Me even more sow. That’s Wearing on a Poet’s Life How trying Too due the impossible Mirrorly transcribing Words of God In some unspeakable language As indecipherable a diction Cloak a verse Abetting my hide On … Continue reading
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POEM: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugh-ly
Welcome to the free verse. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugh-ly The good news My poetry can’t be bought And I can’t be sold out More sow it’s awe free And presently The bad news It’s worth every penny … Continue reading
POEM: Edge Worthy
I like the saying, “If you aren’t living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.” Edge Worthy I found myself Living on the edge Anew view Bounded soully By spaciousness The giving And taking Up Space Optimized
POEM: Knot a Frayed
If I look a little raggedy at times, it’s awe part of a larger plan. Things don’t always look like they seam, a little deeper. Knot a Frayed I over herd Sum won state You peer a little seed-y Yet … Continue reading
POEM: Poetry Offensive
Having words, even as wee stand in awe, of what may be, unspoken… Poetry Offensive I started a poetry offensive To tear down de-fence That divide of a tension Between read and blue states The rise of pauper papers And … Continue reading
POEM: Writing as a Righting Instrument
“Ride on”, says Top Pun, even as hoarse. Writing as a Righting Instrument There are rights There are wrongs There is right and wrong There are rights wronged There are wrongs righted Write de-ployed rightly Is a righting instrument Illustrated … Continue reading
POEM: What Makes?
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman I see that which is truly productive as rooted in … Continue reading
POEM: Bent Knee Walking
I see conflict as an unavoidable aspect of life. Even with my best intentions I end up harming others in various ways. Certainly, I can greatly limit this through effort and attention on my part. Still, there is a chasm … Continue reading
POEM: Recounting Presents
In composing my poetry, I find a generous portion of “stream of consciousness” writing as popularized by Jack Kerouac. This form of writing leans into the unfolding of the real-time flow of consciousness as a style versus a heavily edited … Continue reading
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POEM: A Penthouse Look Out
I have long sought to live a life close to the ground. I am mystified why so many ambitions take so many way over their head, and this is typically called success, or at least successful ambition. My advice: if … Continue reading
POEM: On Call
It’s not unusual for me to write poems in the middle of the night or very early in the morning, and then go back to bed. Plus, I have never been a morning person. So, when I roll out of … Continue reading
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POEM: Captivated by Awe Kinds of Gracious Arts
I am gratefully ungovernable. I am sorry if I don’t have any bargaining chips; I am playing a different game, a beautiful game. Captivated by Awe Kinds of Gracious Arts He was not a man of means He was captivated … Continue reading