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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: About Top Pun
ACTIVIST POEM: With Eyes Fixed — Owed To Shannon Frye
She was tired Enough Fore sentries of human bondage Still Those precious wons With eyes fixed On the prize Forever remanding us Stay qualm And carry on This poem was inspired by Shannon Frye’s blazing commentary that I recently included in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Dream, Heart, Hope, Inspiration, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: Owed To Chet Chambers
His exacting integrity Was seeded only by generosity of heart He loved Awe of God’s children As well As he kin He planted seeds That others would harvest He worked side by side Under God’s reign And the radiance of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Change, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Community, Cuba, Death, Experience, Faith, Family, Generosity, God, Grace, Heart, Housing, Humanity, Humility, Integrity, Jesus, Justice, LGBT, Life, Pastor, Poverty, Sex, Social Justice, Theology, Time, Toledo, Welfare
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MUSE POEM: Awe Mused Up
At the end of the day He was awe mused up Know longer able Too take it Sow well This poem was written amidst a streak of short poems when the muse struck. Sometimes the muse needs to be addressed … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Muse, Musings, Poems, Poetry, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Sleep, Time, Work
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POEM: Mad Happy
Well I never Happy to be mad Mad too be happy This might be crazy That maybe fitting Ante this and ante that Given fighting chance And unbelievable odds Of uncounted to won Beat up and up beat Pleased as … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awe, Crazy, Existential, Experience, Injustice, Job, Justice, Life, Loss, Mourning, Outrage, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rage, Solidarity
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POEM: Standing On My Privy Ledge
I am a white, straight, Christian, male And you see that I am afraid Though paying attention To what is fare I am more afraid Of whites than blacks Of straights than queers Of Christians than Muslims Of men than … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Discrimination, Economic, Equality, Feminism, Haiti, Hate, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Intersectionality, Justice, LGBT, Life, Mennonite, Muslims, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Prison, Privilege, Public Health, Queer, Reality, Rich, Social Justice, Solidarity, Values, Vocation, Women
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POEM: Anew Page Delivering
I am Subject too The very inquisition Wanting too a void Axing the quest in Who would halve me Believe Know One Wrote The book In my heart Anything but stone Nothing accept Throwing multifarious dirt At clay feat As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Attitude, Awe, Dreams, Epistemology, Experience, God, Heart, Hell, Holy, Humor, Life, Nature, Optimism, Philosophical, Philosophy, Playfulness, Poetry, Skepticism, Soul, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Unpain Vocations
There are long aligns To unpain vocations Pro-longed wading to a temp And after awe Many will Due what tolled Unwilling to pay the accost In baring feudal labor As unsuitable to be delivered And forever borne agin Illiciting that … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Dreams, Economy, Heart, Hope, Labor, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Values, Vocation, Work, Workplace
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TOLEDO POEM: The Glass City Is Refillable
Have empty Have full Pundit prognosticating Weather tea town, big gulp, whine, or throwback After work All a buzz A bout how well suited politicians Re-billed a city of denim Putting out hope In efface of houses emptied And streets … Continue reading
Toledo LOVE Fest: Anti-Trump Rally
As Donald Trump brought to Toledo his caravan of hate, bigotry and xenophobia, Toledoans met him with a LOVE fest, declaring resoundingly that his fear mongering is not welcome in Toledo. Here is my favorite picture from the rally: Earlier, … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Beautiful, Bigotry, Control, Donald Trump, Experience, facebook, Fear, Free Speech, Hate, Illegal, Karma, Law, Law Enforcement, Love, Media, Military, Muslims, Partisan, Police, Political, Politics, Present, Protesters, Security, Time, Toledo, Women, Xenophobia
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POEM: Hippie Hippie Array!
I am A bohemian, man Razing consciousness wherever Or whatever I happen to wander about Are you Brushed off by my long hair While you suck it up All the err Straining awe of your shabby tension In the face … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Consciousness, Demonstrators, Gender, Gift, Holy, Hope, Intellect, Joy, Lazy, Poems, Poetry, Spiritual, Superficial, Top Pun
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POEM: Sew Much Silence
Sew much silence And not enough Ears To take it in Awe that seams Unspoken Just got back from a Nonviolent Communication group session with the topic of “Receiving Empathically.” Such active listening to ourselves, other people, and, on a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Healing, Muse, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Power, Short Poems, Silence
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POEM: Awe Due Consideration
What is good A bout religion At best There is little to say Giving a fare hearing More about listening Too small Still voices Respecting only what due Saving A few choice words For those empower Occupying humanity Only in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Chaos, Consciousness, Economy, Experience, Gandhi, Gift, God, Hell, Humanity, Irreverence, Life, Moral, Muse, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Scarcity, Science, Silence, Truth, Universe
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POEM: Adumbrating My Too Sense
Teeming with errs Their egos agin They took their best shot Sow prod of themselves In citing Your poetry makes no cents As if The golf between us As driven in sanity From goad above Rather demanding A stroke of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Addiction, Alliterate, Awe, Beauty, Genius, Heart, Job, Meaning, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Puns, Solidarity, Universe
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POEM: An Aesthetic Hope
In anesthetizing hope A certain author Did what he thought was write Sow cerebrally saying Hope is not a feeling Rather hope is an action To wit I despond This brakes down positively Why I get The extinct feeling of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Blessing, Dreams, Experience, God, Grace, Hope, Irony, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Soul
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POEM: The Curator
I am The curator Of your infinite beauty Privy to collections timeless And in real time Streaming glorious tributaries To the art of who you are This is a poem about the glorious privilege in close relationships of having unique … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beauty, Character, Conflict, Creation, Experience, God, Holy, Imagination, Joy, Life, Love, Love Poems, Muse, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Reality, Relationships, Reverence, Short Poems, Stupid, Time, Universe, Work
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POEM: A Choiring, Raw Youth
Their raw youth Was tenderly witnessed By age owed eyes In awe Their awkward glory Surpassing polished learning More than could ever anew This poem is a reminder to both young and old about the raw beauty of youth, the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Community, Compassion, Dream, Experience, Grace, Hope, Joy, Kids, Learning, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Trust
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POEM: Re-lying on Day-old Knews
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah The news drones on Massaging and spinning Disembodied heads a top Heartless ‘n titties in dis cursive and desultry means Temperately flailing to wake us From our terrorific slumber Our tired and true rejoinder Hit … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Democracy, Drones, Evil, Farce, Fox News, Humanity, Just for the Health of It, Media, Objectivity, Parodies, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Public Health, Responsibility, Superficial, Toledo, Truth, Vanity, Violence, WAKT
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