Category Archives: Poems

Short Poems, Funny Poems, Epic Poems

POEM: Aye, Will Rise in Three Days, Yada Yada Yada

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Top Pun

The resistance will persist until further notice. And upon notice wee will grow even more. Aye, Will Rise in Three Days, Yada Yada Yada We will resist austerity As we root in abundance We will resist authoritarianism As we vote … Continue reading →

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POEM — What Comes: Of Police Helicopters

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Sow It Goes

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Top Pun

Life can be tops. Sow It Goes Life gives Sow much more Then it takes Back And fourth That first for life Round and round It goes Where it’s tops Nobody no’s

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POEM: Other Wise

Posted on April 29, 2025 by Top Pun

Solidarity, cooperation, and trust create a future worth living, and a present worth fighting for. Other Wise They tolled US Of gaining And regaining Competitiveness And awe the wile Wee look to each other Solidarity The foundation of civilization Cooperation … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Roll of Government

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Top Pun

The psychotic notion that greed should be the engine for good has long been capitalism’s premise and wretched selling point. The grifter-in chief has “successfully” weaponized this to turn all of US into rubes. This poem elucidates the roll of … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dihydrogen Monoxide Conspiracy

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Top Pun

Some conspiracy theories are beautiful. Dihydrogen Monoxide Conspiracy Water is life And awe is well

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POEM: Awe, Led, Goaled

Posted on April 26, 2025 by Top Pun

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: Fly By Night Day Traitors

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Top Pun

Fly By Night Day Traitors He con me Threw me a curve And I banked on it The fool faith And unmoored credit Of US Re-lying on treasury bonds Presidential Sharpies™ And that stock mark it In dig nation of … Continue reading →

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POEM: Calling Inaudible

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Top Pun

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: Meaner and Leaner, Have Way There

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Top Pun

Inspired by the mean and chaotic slash and burn of our federal government. Wons agin, welcome to new mismanagement. Meaner and Leaner, Have Way There The fat cats Broad caste The D.C. shuffle Their latest arrival A Department of Departments … Continue reading →

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POEM: That’s Wearing on a Poet’s Life

Posted on April 23, 2025 by Top Pun

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: That Shrouded Berth

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Top Pun

It’s hard to know what is borne from incomprehensible places. That Shrouded Berth It was one Of those moments Wear my life seemed incomprehensible A fit That others did knot Care to see Yet I was made To wonder If … Continue reading →

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POEM: Frankly, More Than Speaking – Owed to Pope Francis

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Top Pun

Frankly, More Than Speaking – Owed to Pope Francis “Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary use words.” – Ironically, words misattributed to St. Francis of Assisi There are many weighs to live And Pope Francis chose Servant … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Wrest of the Story

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Top Pun

Trump is a meanie. The Wrest of the Story “Don’t worry. He doesn’t mean what he says.” –Trump apologists He may mean what he says He may not mean what he says But you can wrest assured That what he … Continue reading →

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POEM: Life Timer

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Top Pun

Whatever chance of going to prison I may have, it increased greatly with the coronation of Donald Trump. The future seems replete with civil disobedience. Resistance is feudal, and I plan to serf the future. In such brutal times, that … Continue reading →

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POEM: Dream Remains

Posted on April 19, 2025 by Top Pun

There are a lot of theories of why we need need so much sleep and what exactly is going on when we sleep. This poem addresses three theories of dreaming: 1) that in deep sleep, unrememberable, our souls return to … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugh-ly

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: What Does The Security State?

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Top Pun

When it comes to constitutional rights, use them or lose them. Please feel free to exercise your rights and exorcise totalitarianism. What Does The Security State? Accordion to security state Expand surveillance As the spyin’ of totalitarianism And into the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Edge Worthy

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Top Pun

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

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POEM: Don’t Look Up, Sunny

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Top Pun

In efface of ecological sanity and even decades-old market forces, the carbon-based life deform known as Donald Trump wants to bring back coal. I guess Trump’s century-old  vaudevillian show wants to feature Mother Earth in blackface. Under his watch in … Continue reading →

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