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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 Constipated Citizenry
Not so deep Within the body politic A constipated citizenry Yearns to be free Crying out In a full groan democracy Mourning the dearth of moral fiber Humanity squat An abject lessen Lo expectations As number too Clinging to far-fetched … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Cynicism, Democracy, Donald Trump, Freedom, government, Hillary Clinton, History, Humanity, Irony, Modern, Moral, Mourning, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power
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POEM: Another Martyr Bides The Dust
Another martyr bides the dust And I was a stray Beside myself In the fog Of yet another mourning The missed over my heart Feeling only that ephemeral beaten The wait on my brain Fueled into thinking of the dread … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Character, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Community, Compassion, Conscience, Conservative, Death, Dorothy Day, Elite, Environmental, Family, Fear, Freedom, God, government, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Hope, Human Race, Imperialism, Integrity, Jesus, Life, Love, Martyr, Militarism, Military, Mourning, National, nobel peace prize, Obedience, Occupy Wall Street, Oligarchy, Poems, Poet, Political, Poverty, Power, Prison, Protests, Religious, Religious Freedom, Risk, Sacred, State, Time, Truth, Wall Street, War, Women, Work
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POEM: Love Making
I was mistaken All those years Those sweetest ours Thinking I was making love When in truth Love was making me This love poem, as most of my poems, can be read several ways. Of course, the simplest reading is … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Community, Courage, God, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Life, Love, Love Poems, Mind, Mystery, Patience, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Reality, Relationships, Romantic, Spiritual, Truth, Work
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POEM: My Proffered Busyness
My proffered busyness Is riding poetry Wherever It takes me And even as sow many Times come a bout The heist spot in the whirled Strong-armed by incoming Dealing with lives steel As sell sum Pilfer everything As if Following … Continue reading
POEM: Ode Record Smashed
He smashed His ode record Broke in The same oh Same oh! Skipping A beat Down Sow deep In his sole Feted To follow him Wear ever Won is I wrote this poem as the last poem of the day … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Gift, Life, Muse, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Revolution, Short Poems
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POEM: A Mega Something — Owed To Megabus
We waited Quiet A long time For what would be ours For what would pass As high noon Breaking the news As poor As the bussed itself Loitering in the company we keep A mega something But not a bus … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems
Tagged Money, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Speaking With Spoken Sword: Owed To Hungering Fore Anew ProMedica
The profit tiers Some how a peer To set the captives free Going won after the other Like mammon and famine As to somehow heel the ravenous As fiend and faux As sow appetite for the pauper reproach With such … Continue reading
POEM: Annoys Pollution
Every wear but hear Beeping phones And nobody at home Impossible to a tone Even with wringing personally With poor timing Watching volumes A little too lewd Mindless won And awe the artless With every bell and whistle Ears unplugged … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Art, Awe, Busyness, Civil Disobedience, Employment, Freedom, Funny, Inane, Life, Logic, Mind, Mindfulness, Modern, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pollution, Poor, Progress, Religion, Responsibility, Silence, Spiritual, Western Civilization, Zen
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POEM: A Musing Co-Mission — Nein Poems! Owed to Know One
This is nine separate poems comprising one poem, each and all on the theme of the muse mercilessly striking in the middle of the night with irrepressible inspiration from God knows where. God bid me Higher than I Was willing … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Art, Awe, Busyness, Dream, Dreams, God, Inspiration, Mourning, Muse, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Resistance, Silence, Time, Work
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POEM: A Corny Poem — Owed To Iowa
He was feeling it In a corny state The mother of corn starch In the thick of it A sweet mother High on fructose Full of it As lots of feed In feedlots Of walking meat But it was my … Continue reading
POEM: Brew Aha
In the mettle of this Brew aha Beside myself I took a stand In countering Such ponderous courting How civil this obedience Wear black And white lies Segregated Only spotted As if Sent out to posture Presumptuous in a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Argument, Civil Disobedience, Death, Heart, Hospitality, Justice, Life, Obedience, Oppression, Pi, Play, Poet, Present, Privilege, Racism, Rationalization, Shakespeare, Silence, Social Justice, Transcendent
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POEM: And Love Comes, However Inconceivably
There I stood I was in That not so thin line Between getting More than I could ask for And more than I bargained for The distinction of gratitude Or the convergence of thieves Still born Of one accord I … Continue reading
POEM: Car Less
One moment I have a car The next moment I don’t The universe conspires To nourish my feral body and sole Not with the twisted steal of civilization But as a carrot In a field of vision Meting its purpose … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Experience, God, Grace, Inspiration, Life, Mother Earth, Ode, Paradoxes, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Time, Universe
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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POEM: In What Seams Faultless
At certain moments I am left In a world Beyond That which is My own Speechless In what seams faultless Only to be Hereafter Unleashed After awe Unforked tongue Speaking freely To anyone who can Here Experiencing such presence Unfrayed … Continue reading