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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
POEM: Probably Write
I write what I know. I write what I no. I write what is read by few. I write what cannot be read by many. Awe is fodder for all that I right. Probably Write He was going A bout … Continue reading
POEM: Know Business Like Slow Business
Know Business Like Slow Business There’s no business like slow business Like know busyness I no
POEM: Oh My, Myopia
I have a gift for systematic thinking and pattern recognition. I delight in connecting the dots between the infinitely connected aspects of the universe. Everything reminds me of everything else. I am an Olympic figure-out-erer — rank amateur status only … Continue reading
POEM: Wanting Equity
I am intrigued by the difference between equality and equity. I believe that we ARE equal as humans and all human rights spring from this. I see equity as when human rights are manifest equally across humanity. We ARE equal. … Continue reading
POEM: Rabbit Whole
As the greatly underappreciated theologian Elmer Fudd so eloquently stated, “I’ve gone down the wascally wabbit whole.” Rabbit Whole God is a rascally rabbit And I AM Down with that whole Saved by a hare Like the heir I breathe … Continue reading
POEM: Last Words
May hauntingly beautiful souls possess you… Last Words When I Am long gone Long past Whatever seeing Is present Eye hope To haunt you In the most beautiful way Taking leave of grass And longing of eternity Taking whole of … Continue reading
POEM: Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit
The spirit is elusive…delightfully elusive… Defying Any Yarn of This Knit Wit My relationship with God Closer than kin be Defies any yarn of this knit wit Seaming beyond owed fashion And awe ways wanting amor Is clothes enough And … Continue reading
POEM: Leather Bound
For me, writing poetry is a fearless and irreverent process, ever recognizing that irreverence can be the highest form of reverence. The words left on a page are mere soul droppings. A collection of such droppings of skewered sacred cows … Continue reading
POEM: On the Order of 126 Lost Poems
A while back, I discovered that I had “misplaced,” lost track of 126 poems in my 500-page working poem file that is filled with unfinished poems, “uncollected poems” that I haven’t yet published in my annual-ish printed collection for my … Continue reading
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POEM: It’s Awe in the Shoulder
I love the John Lennon lyric, “Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.” I find that awe the best comes to me when I don’t expect it. Expect to be surprised! This poem expresses … Continue reading
POEM: Udder Simplicity
Here is a poem about voluntary simplicity. Poverty is brutal. None the less, seriously leaning into “more for less” can unleash deeper “values.” I have learned to relish having “more time than money” and shedding less satisfying consumer-oriented impulses. I … Continue reading
POEM: Crack a Diction
This poem is about my beauteous experience writing poetry that most people do not understand or do not have an interest in trying to understand — definitely a diction. Crack a Diction Eye harbor A diction To crack In time … Continue reading
POEM: Overdid
I try to err on the side of hope. Please pardon my enthusiasm. Overdid YES That is true In sum regards I overdid it I certainly hope Sow
POEM: Acquit My Jōb
When I quit my “regular” job two decades ago, I totally underestimated the quantum leap in my quality of life. Even with poverty-level earnings for decades, and that first decade with no health insurance, I felt that I won the … Continue reading
POEM: Missing an I
I would love to save the world. Fortunately, this does not depend on me alone. I want to join movements with others who savor justice, joy, and love. Here is a poem on this theme: Missing an I Hear I … Continue reading
POEM: F-16
Sometimes life is a walk in the neighborhood. Sometimes not. F-16 I was strolling in my neighborhood Trying to avoid The usual noise pollution From technological whored A roaring lawnmower hear A gas weed whacker whacking there A whirring leaf … Continue reading
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POEM: Ambitions Sunk
This dude abides, as life is awesome and awe full awe of the time. Ambitions Sunk My ambitions are sunk In the firmaments of the universe And whatever verses arise Yea, no madder what versus This whirled stirs Nay, I … Continue reading
MEMORIAL POEMS for my mom, Lois Rutt
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY AWE! My mom, Lois Rutt, died just short of 90-years-old, on September 27, 2022. I wrote a set of 14 poems for her memorial service around the theme of one of her favorite Bible verses: “For now … Continue reading
POEM: Weather Sadness or Joy
This poem extolls the value of feeling deeply, both in sadness and joy. Weather Sadness or Joy I sea In a soul tear The whole whirled And folks in choir Am I Awe right And weather sadness Or joy Such … Continue reading
POEM: Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode
Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode It was plane to sea That he wanted too be Immortal eyes A high And might he quest In Flying hi And lo That mystical soup And what can return Ashore thing … Continue reading
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