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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: Poems
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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POEM: Not Unlike Hope
Here is a poem about hope, sometimes on the run, sometimes on the lam. Hope is never lost, and hope often lurks in sometimes unrespectable places. This poem has plenty of puns, hidden jewels, drama, chase scenes, and victorious poetry. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action
Tagged Authorities, Character, Citizens, Civil Disobedience, Heart, Hope, Justice, Ode, Poetry, Police, Protest Poetry, Puns, Short Poems
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POEM: My Heart Breaks Daily
Life is messy. Compassion is messy. Acting in the world in a way that is congruent with one’s broken and breaking heart is a challenge. A challenge to the actor, and a challenge to those in the world witnessing and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Authorities, Compassion, Heart, Life, Poetry, Protest Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: A Mother’s Nature
This poem did not exist a few hours ago. I was interrupted by a thought (captured in the first few lines) and I took the time to jot them down. Seconds turned to hours as the muse is a taskmaster … Continue reading
POEM: O Children of Mother Earth, Arise!
This poem has emanated from my musings about the oil tar sands in Canada. The extraction of these oil tar sands, in some of the most pristine parts of North America, is the largest single scarring of Mother Earth ever … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action
Tagged Addiction, America, Beauty, Children, Greed, Hope, Life, Mother Earth, Musings, Nature, Occupy Toledo, Play, Progress, Resistance, Scarcity, Tar Sands, Toledo, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Chicago Transit Authority and Me – 147 to 4
I recently spent the week in Chicago while my Dad was in the hospital for major surgery. Travelling back and forth from the hospital involved going about 110 blocks on two busses, from the north end of downtown to the … Continue reading
POEM: Universe So Vast
I once asked God Why did you make the universe so vast? What were you possibly thinking? And God said I was kind of hoping To have enough room For all of the poetry yet to be written This is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Consciousness, God, Heart, Job, Life, Mind, Poet, Poetry, Questions, Short Poems, Universe
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POEM: Slow Boat to China
Some days I feel like I’m on A slow boat To China Then it hits me More like Being water boarded In America My life is generally at a pretty relaxed pace, and with this I have no complaints. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Big Brother, China, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Denial, Economy, Experience, Fascism, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Short Poems, State, Terrorism, Torture, War, Wisdom
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POEM: I am
The other day I got kicked out Of an atheist’s club Told in no uncertain terms There is science And no other! And I am left To wonder Wow, where did that come from?! I was raised A Christian A … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Atheist, Attitude, Buddhism, Christian, Compassion, Conventional Wisdom, Counter-Cultural, Death, Einstein, Experience, Fundamentalism, Gandhi, God, Gratitude, Hindu, Jesus, Jewish, Job, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Militant, Muslim, Muslims, Palestinian, Philosophical, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Religion, Science, Sikh, Spiritual, Spirituality, Suffering, Theology, Universe
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POEM: Entitled to be Untitled
Your life is a work of art Entitled to be untitled Your life is beautiful. Your life is a work of art. Your life cannot be reduced to a thing; it is irreducibly mysterious. Any label is inadequate. I have … Continue reading
POEM: A Taste for Happiness
Dining with Kings and Queens Courtly balls Knightly duels And priestly indulgences You can avoid it all If only you are happy Eating beans This short poem goes out to all of those people who feel conflicted about all the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Control, Happiness, Jesus, Life, Lifestyle, Money, Politics, Poor, Poverty, Power, Rich, Simplicity, Spiritual, Values, Wealth, Western Civilization
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POEM: Spiritual Economy
The other day I went to my spiritual economist She had already been in receipt of my stack of papers I spoke at some length and detail She noted that I have much that I can not afford She advised … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Conventional Wisdom, Economy, Experience, Life, Materialism, Money, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Questions, Short Poems, Spiritual, Wealth, Wisdom
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POEM: Bull Shit
There are two things I know for sure One, I am way too old for this bull shit Two, I am way too young for this bull shit Okay, it’s more Like one thing In my college freshman english class, … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Economy, Gift, Ironic, Irony, Lazy, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Truth
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POEM: No Longer on Speaking Terms with God
I am no longer on speaking terms with God She keeps pouring drink into my cup overflowing And I no longer have the heart to say when Only ever with a rye smile Would she say to me “eat me” … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Experience, Funny, God, Gratitude, Heart, Poems, Poetry, Rich
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