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Puns
Art is smart,
for the beating heart
PUNS
Yoke or Joke?
When life is a burden,
and a heavy yoke,
it can be eased for certain,
with a little joke.
To bumble-bee or to humble-bee?
To bumble-bee
or to humble-bee?
That is the question,
for you and me.
Shakespeare,
did not appear,
for you to eat,
apple or pear.
Turn the fruit nectar, and all your money,
into wisdom, and beautiful honey.
Better to become humble,
without a mumble,
than to tumble,
like a bumble.
Art is smart
Art is smart,
for the beating heart.
Art is re-start,
for the mind that depart.
Art is challenge,
when you seek not to avenge.
Art feels great,
when you lose weight.
Art is fun,
when you make a pun.
Pun is Fun
Pun is Fun,
but sometimes it leaves things undone.
Like the accountant who wrote,
on a single note:
"Two plus three plus four plus seven,
to add things is to be in Heaven."
He wasn’t philosophic,
in his topic,
but he had great fun,
with his pun.
Selling or Shelling?
Selling or Shelling?
The question is quite compelling!
When you prefer to make a deal,
instead of behaving like a zeal,
you will be trying to get a feel,
for the moment to seal the deal.
Less hair, more air
Less hair, more air.
You would think better,
and have more flair.
Unless you are a woman,
full of fear,
losing your hair,
would lead to despair.
Yolk or Joke?
Picture the egg with shell, white and yolk.
The artist must touch the inner yolk,
otherwise his speech becomes a joke.
If the artist speaks from the outer shell,
his message becomes stiff like pure hell.
You can't touch people's hearts,
by speaking from the level of sharks.
Move from the shell, through the white to the yolk,
and your message will not become a joke.
Dungeon or danjeon?
You can always change course
by showing remorse.
You could get in contact
with your life force,
it is like riding
on a strong horse.
There was a man,
left alone without a van,
together with a dragon,
but without a wagon.
Alone in the dungeon,
his only option was the danjeon!
The “elixir field”,
a protecting shield.
The Chinese call it:
the liberating dan-tian.
The sun is always shining
Chinese Lao Tzu was practical
and understood life as it is.
The Indian Paramahamsa is fantastical
and understand life is bliss.
The Roman generals were like Hannibal
and turned life into abyss.
Lao Tzu didn’t need a horse
because he didn’t use force.
When you are conscious about time
life doesn’t rhyme.
When you share your love and dining
the sun is always shining.
The gymnast
The gymnast
jumps
up
by making a step
down
on the mini trampoline.
Peaks
are achieved via
low points.
The gymnast makes a jump;
it is the low point that creates the energy for the peak.
A jar of clay is formed;
it is the depth that makes the jar spacious.
A piece of coal is exposed to pressure;
it is the pressure that turns the coal into a diamond.
Learn from the gymnast.
Learn from the jar.
Learn from the diamond.
The name of the game
The Tao that can be told
is not the real Tao to unfold.
What can be named
through words,
is temporarily famed
in outer worlds.
What cannot be named
through words,
is eternally famed
in inner worlds.
The person who does not seek outside oneself,
will realise the hidden.
The person who seeks outside oneself,
will realise the written.
The hidden
and the written,
although two different words,
for two different worlds,
both arise from the same source
and the exact same force.
Both are they
the mystery
of mysteries,
- the door to wholeness.
Wu Wei - the better way
People perceive beauty as beautiful
because they see other things as ugly.
People perceive good as good
because they see other things as bad.
Being
and non-being
arise from the same place.
Difficulty and easiness
define each others space.
Long and short
complement each others face.
The same with
high and low
sound and stillness
time and space.
Therefore the wise goes about
doing Wu Wei
the better way,
and teaches without uttering a word a day.
Events and things come and go continuously;
the wise is creating without possessing hideously,
the wise is working without taking credit for the edit.
Work is done and then forgotten,
moving on to the next all of a sudden.
Therefore it lasts forever.
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Pun is Fun
The following puns
are by Benjamin Kurzweil.
Free poetry collection download
in PDF format. Click her.
During the Second World War, Winston Churchill's finance minister said Britain should cut arts funding to support the war effort.
Churchill responded:
Then what are we fighting for?
One of the fathers of the vision of a unified Europe, Jean Monnet (1888-1979), a French political economist and diplomat, said at the end of his life:
If I had to do it all over again, I would first begin with culture, not economics, as the basis of European integration.
(Jean Monnet is regarded by many as the chief architect of European Unity - one of its founding fathers.)
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