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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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- POEM: A Tax on Canada – Owed to Smoke ‘em If You Got ‘em
- POEM: Multitudes of Choice
- POEM: Infrastructure Weak
- POEM: Certifiable Sabbath
- POEM: Free, of Conspiring
- POEM: Owed to Uncivil Service
- POEM: Burning Peacemakers Unflaggingly a Cross America
- POEM: Leaves Waving
- POEM: Taken Literally
- POEM: The Drop on Me
- POEM: The Gravity of Centeredness
- POEM: Wading to Ex-hell
- POEM: Sow Lame He Cant Get an Election – Owed to Straight Up Lies
- POEM: Bard from Speaking — Owed to a Passing Grade (If Sow Inclined)
- POEM: Blanche Effacing – Owed to De-nomination of Todd Blanche
- POEM: De-nuding Shame
- POEM: Knot Computing
- POEM: Fit for Doody
- POEM: The Catch
- POEM: Man Machined
- POEM: That Witch Is
- POEM: That Uncle Sam
- POEM: Pointed Canon
- POEM: Owed to Lindsey Graham
- POEM: The Pits
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Tag Archives: Tao
POEM: Free, of Conspiring
Freedom exists, some wear between, inspiration and expiration… Free, of Conspiring Breath conspires with know one Inspiration just The have of it Perspiration soully Water you Going to do
POEM: The Drop on Me
Tending to busyness is over-raided… The Drop on Me They got The drop on me Do do Do do Do do Any thing To void The slightest whiff Of no thing The natural-est Out Come Eating beings
POEM: The Gravity of Centeredness
To move forward in life adeptly, one must first get over death… The Gravity of Centeredness His center Of gravity Was beneath his feat More than six feet Sow grave Unfrayed of death Makes life Seam easy “The journey of … Continue reading
POEM: The Catch
Reality favors being like water, more sow than stone… The Catch Low And be hold Awe streams flow Too the see On the level Just A positioned With awe that is Righteous The catch Of awe catches See Tao, 66 … Continue reading
POEM: That Witch Is
Awe is awe, there is… That Witch Is You more than might Find yourself Underneath The power of the whirled Wear there is A river of awe That witch is A mirror tributary Too the foundation Of awe being Beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Mystic, Mystical, Mysticism, Tao
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POEM: Wins Blowing
Getting in the flow of life is easier, then you think… Wins Blowing “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with … Continue reading
POEM: No Locks on Adores
This poem is of the Taoist tradition, treasure of parent opposites… No Locks on Adores I found myself In that plays The greatest presence Away with words The keys of silence Wear there No locks on adores Soully able To … Continue reading
POEM: Tao Remains
I’ve been reading the Tao Te Ching again lately. I find this writing perhaps the most succinct way to access our source of being… Tao Remains The Tao Before I was borne Well, as I live and breathe And when … Continue reading
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Tagged Inspiration, Spiritual, Tao
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POEM: Hi Def
Multi-tasking dulls our focus. Do one thing at a time, or less… Hi Def What might Be the best Rendering of Zen Do one thing And of the Tao Do no-thing A sharp contrast to the dull Due won thing
POEM: A Walk In The Park
Sometimes life IS a walk in the park. A Walk In The Park I thought I had it Sorted out Bin there Done that Only too discover A knew Sow unprecedented In the recess Of my tenderfooted soul A fresh … Continue reading
POEM: Promedica My Ass — Owed To Branding
Logos used Too mean Know ledge Like that age owed ad vice Would you jump off a bridge If every won ails did As in sayin’ Bye your good will As money oozes from the non-prophet, health care (sic) system … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Family, Gandhi, Genius, Health Care, Justice, Life, Living Wage, Love, Money, Mourning, Poet, Poetry, ProMedica, Prophet, Proprietary, Propriety, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Tao, Time, Toledo
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MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth
MUST READ POEM: Incarcerated Truth But for the slip of the tongue There could be Having Been given The slip of paper With a key Too incarcerated truth Knot to be Read aloud There is know God Many of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Conundrum, Experience, God, Life, Meaning, Silence, Spiritual, Tao, Truth
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POEM: That Cursory Savor
Life As present Did not add up As if A zero Sum game The passed getting bigger The future getting smaller That good buy That eminent lessen As holy for gone As refuse As waive that fortune Having only Too … Continue reading
POEM: Of Coarseness
Don’t put won over me F every won Flunk sexism Flunk racism Flunk classism Flunk nationalism And sow on And sow on In effability Of coarse They say Vulgarity vulgarity Every ware I look In just US The capital of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awareness, Awe, Capitalism, Classism, Crude, Employment, Experience, Farce, Injustice, Law, Life, Morality, Nationalism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Privilege, Propriety, Racism, Sacred, Sexism, Society, Status, Superficial, Surreal, Tao, Virtue
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POEM: Cautionary Tail
Shadow pays homage to light In a place beyond compare And as a cautionary tail May you not be doggedly wagged This short poem is a tip of the hat to the Taoist idea of complimentariness or yin-yang, such as … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Cautionary Tale, Enlightenment, Evil, Experience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Tao
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POEM: A Full Life
Charlie’s life was full Every available space laden to wrest His productivity well suited To his interests Taxidermy and robotics This short poem offers a challenge to what it means to have a full life in modern Western civilization, where … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Anxiety, Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Capitalism, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Experience, God, Hope, Image, Inane, Job, Labor, Life, Modern, Nature, Perspective, Productivity, Questioning, Revolution, Revolutionary, Silence, Suffering, Tao, Vocation, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Seriously?!
The Zen master was nearly Finished with his instruction When he got to non-seriousness I was greatly relieved For I was taking nothing He was saying Seriously This short poem gets at one of the great paradoxes of enlightened spirituality: … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Blessed, Buddhist, Compassion, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Cynical, Disease, Enlightenment, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideology, Joke, Life, Logic, Materialism, Materialist, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Paradoxes, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rules, Sacred, Science, Short Poems, Spiritual, Spirituality, Tao, Theology, Time, Transcendence, Transcendent, Zen
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