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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: DJ Sleepy — Owed To The Don’s 250th Anniversary Celebration
- POEM: Cactus Love
- POEM: Something Shady, On Mother Earth
- POEM: Good, Bad, In Different
- POEM: Up To, Unparalleled Living
- POEM: No Locks on Adores
- POEM: Every Singular Day
- POEM: Voyage of the Dammed — Owed to Welcoming Refugees
- POEM: Mustering Up, The Least
- POEM: Mercy Me
- POEM: The Littlest People
- Sea Horse Sense – Owed to Gender Fluidity in Nature
- POEM: Progressive Wins
- POEM: Apportion of Living
- POEM: Who Gets Too Pic?
- POEM: Faith, My Friends
- POEM: Awe There Is
- POEM: Reflecting Pool
- POEM: Out Figuring
- POEM: A Hole Life of “have to”
- POEM: Fallow Fields?
- POEM: May the Bus Man Win – Owed to Trump and His Netanyahu
- POEM: Star Base – Owed to a Base Star [Elon Musk]
- POEM: Inter Generational
- POEM: Cage Fight™
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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Rorschach Testy
We live in a decrepit age where the state of the body politic is more closely connected to projecting our dark dreams onto our elected leaders than a reflection of actual policies. Apparently, we need less policy analysts and more … Continue reading
POEM: Will Fullness
Many people at many times consider the force of will as a key to success in life. I find that willingness is the more powerful juice in cultivating well being in life. I don’t see this necessarily as an either/or … Continue reading
POEM: Shakespeare – Owed to Dead White Men
This poem is a tip of the hat to the staying power of Bill Shakespeare — or for Macbeth fans, stain power [blood on hands, “out damn spot”]… Shakespeare – Owed to Dead White Men His dogged rep Sticks around … Continue reading
POEM: Blue Prince of Life
I wrote this poem on the occasion of my friend Sean Nestor’s 40th birthday. There is a lot to unpack — just as with Sean! I gave a simple framed copy of this poem, without author info, to unsully the … Continue reading
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POEM: Unkept
This short poem is a companion poem to the poem following it, written 12 years earlier. This poem offers a different view of my bursting heart: one of overflowing joy rather than sadness. Both happen to be true — sometimes … Continue reading
POEM: Re-framed?
A friend once called me “the king of re-framing.” I just see this as taking any experience or situation and making sense of it through the frame of my world view, my most basic assumptions about the world. I strongly … Continue reading
POEM: Corporate Toons – Owed to Commercial Soundtracks
One of my pet peeves is great songs being commercialized to sell crap. The commercial that triggered this poem included the bastardization of a Johnny Cash song… Corporate Toons – Owed to Commercial Soundtracks Every thing is for sail In … Continue reading
POEM: Frank and Steinway
I recently saw the newest movie version of Frankenstein, by Guillermo del Toro. I highly recommend. This poem is inspired by this classic story and epic film, a meditation on the soul fooly melodic themes of life and death hauntingly … Continue reading
POEM: Basket Cases
Follow the light…in both life and death… Basket Cases “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?” – Mark 4:21 There is The light of the good knews … Continue reading
POEM: Right-Sized
The challenge of humility is of being too large OR of being too small… Right-Sized Life could be scene As posing two problems Thirst of all Too be bigger than What is called for And lastly Being sow small Knot … Continue reading
POEM: Taming of the Shrewd
The shrewdness of winning and losing is not a natural ally in love and relationships… Taming of the Shrewd “We can cleave as one, or cleave as won, but we can’t due both.” – Cleave Jones Ø my love Could … Continue reading
POEM: Sow Few Nobles
This poem was inspired by my niece playing the role of Beatrice in Bill Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing… Sow Few Nobles The whys shake their aheads Fore a town with sow few nobles Too be so fortunate Or knot … Continue reading
POEM: Roughly, The Sighs of a Heart
This poem is a bout that dance between empathy and enraging injustices… Roughly, The Sighs of a Heart “The human heart is some wear around the size of a fist.” The other Day I saw A gripping tale Of a … Continue reading
POEM: Imparts Are Imparts
Creation is singularly awesome! Imparts Are Imparts I was taken in Awe of the flora and fauna Creatures big and small And just entertaining How might God be Hold this see of creation As won Greater or lesser Then another … Continue reading
POEM: Book Ends
Life has boundaries. May we respect those boundaries… Book Ends We live Fore the time being In a whirled Sow illiterate That disrespects The bookends of life The sacred nest Of awe human life And the reverence Of Mother Earth … Continue reading
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POEM: Is It Passable?
Sow trying to live a choice life… Is It Passable? Is it passable Won’s hole Life spent Caught in the balance Between overwhelmed And underwhelmed Everything screaming buy Nothing left Yet still Presence Joys sprinkled Long the wayside For you … Continue reading
POEM: Meet Up
Worth the admission prize… Meet Up I must admit When God and I meet up I keep minutes Though in awe Honest Seams amor Like ours Somewhere between Novel Punch line Or just teas Weather God’s plays Or my plays … Continue reading
POEM: That Vast Nest of Inner Space
There is a cosmos inside of us, just as import to the cosmos around us… That Vast Nest of Inner Space Let me Way in On this microcosmic scale That vast nest of inner space As more sow A dream … Continue reading
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POEM: Good Reeds
Resistance is natural. Resilience is integral to nature… Good Reeds Are you up For a good reed Beyond getting bent In during the furious Winds of change And with standing Holding fast To won’s nature Grounded Rooted It’s knot a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Resistance
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