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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: 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
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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: My Life Projected
This poem is a reflection on my calling to simple living, in what I sometimes call semi-voluntary, semi-poverty. I find the trappings much less entrapping than what passes for normal… My Life Projected Some may take A mirror glimpse Of … Continue reading
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POEM: Gaping Whole
I see nonviolence as a lifelong, life-longing invitation to do better. We can awe ways do better. Of coarse, active nonviolence is risky because the whirled is replete with violence of all sorts: for personal or tribal material gain, for … Continue reading
POEM: My Asthma
Sometimes, it seems that I am a little too connected to the world… My Asthma Just The other day To God I in choir Singing my wheezy song Why did you give me asthma? She hummed long Something concerning My … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Environment, Environmental, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature
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POEM: Wear Are You?
This poem is a tip of the hat to all of the hats we wear. Will the real you stand up… Wear Are You? He war Sow many masks Armor and shields As no thyself Wolves in sheep’s clothing Sheep … Continue reading
POEM: Divided Precisely in Have
Patriarchy’s most exquisite evil is dividing the world precisely in half, creating a divide that runs through every family, community, and nation. It should come as no surprise that the best indicator for the well-being of a nation is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Feminist, Women
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POEM: Stenographer Pool
I love those days when poetry flows… Stenography Pool God kneads more Peephole in His stenographer pool But what Due I no? Just calling Hymn like I see him
POEM: Put in a Box
Violence is too hubris-ridden, full of juicy justifications, to not reliably rebound. Nonviolence in response to violence calls for great creativity and courage… Put in a Box We have bin Tolled Over and over agin The soul thing Under stand … Continue reading
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POEM: Who Owns the Right
Who Owns the Right They had Made up They’re own That they were Right Aggrieved of whatever left Snowflakes In the winter of their discontent Too educated Fore their own Good as radical terrorists Hardened criminals Or God verboten anti-fascists … Continue reading
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POEM: From Sum Wear Ails
This poem goes out to everyone who, in witnessing human unkind, has ever felt as a sojourner or alien in this world… From Sum Wear Ails I due not Live on This plan it Yet I here The call Of … Continue reading
POEM: Safety Thirst
At times, courage is needed to get us through those moments when playing it safe is even more dangerous… Safety Thirst Their heads were swimming So they went head first Into the shallow end Of the gene pool A real … Continue reading
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Tagged Courage
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POEM: Round and Round Squared
Violence is often a case of they made me, due it… Round and Round Squared Round and round we go Where it doesn’t stop Every won knows The cause And solution Too awe of our problems Violence Lizard brains And … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Nonviolence, Violence
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POEM: Dissembling Antifa
The surest way to identify a fascist is if they define their enemies as anti-fascist… Dissembling Antifa The bloviator-in-chief Rants and rages Lies and defies His pain a tension As thanks to the madder Yet his grate-est credential Is fascism … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-fascist, anti-Trump, Antifa, Donald Trump, Fascism
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POEM: Deepest Wake
May you have the peace that passeth awe understanding each night… Deepest Wake In the dead of night Is my deepest wake A cross That stream of consciousness Rests In the vastest see possible That which is Holy beyond belief … Continue reading
POEM: Won Piece Is a Hole
War is popular mostly because it is simply easier to blow stuff up than build things up… Won Piece Is a Hole They sow covet A piece of the axin’ A common miss take Posing that Reaping peace Can be … Continue reading
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POEM: In Comprehensible Poetry
In Comprehensible Poetry My papers were indecipherable By awe But God Speaking clearly You have no ID How easy this is fore me To recognize my own son As like wise pure of art sea me Rolling long Even without … Continue reading
POEM: The Nothing Special — Owed to What Kin You Do
We are all kin. What kin you due? The Nothing Special — Owed to What Kin You Do They took Care of their own The giving Nothing special Of average Joe’s Every wear In thin A regular At that owed … Continue reading
POEM: On the Sacrificial Lam
For those who may claim that you are living precariously in some fashion, just know that it may be difficult to be more suicidal than planet human right now… On the Sacrificial Lam To live sow precariously They couldn’t help … Continue reading
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Tagged Mother Earth
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POEM: Volunteering, Worth Every Penny
Volunteering is worth every penny…and then sum… Volunteering, Worth Every Penny What due I Get out Of volunteering How do I no What it is worth In the free market What is given freely Is pennies on the dollar The … Continue reading
POEM: Neighbor’s Keeper
“Who is my neighbor” is a rhetorical question originating from the parable of the good Samaritan, where Samaritans where the sworn enemies of the Israelites and the Israelite did not want to recognize Samaritans as his neighbor, nor answer the … Continue reading