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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: Poems
POEM: Efficient Love
Efficiency is highly overrated. The abundant life is not well defined by ultra-precise engineering. Efficient Love An award no one yearned for: Most efficient love Weather child or mate Strikingly spare That scant do attitude Eager for meager Barren awe … Continue reading
POEM: To Arms
I have had this awareness that any direction we run, we run into the arms of God. Off course, the staggeringly long run peers quite vexing. To Arms I was annoyed By an atheist And his militancy Of inept God … Continue reading
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POEM: The Problem with Violence
Violence begets violence. Violence begs violence. Violence gets violence. The Problem with Violence To every axing There is an equal And opposite axing It only takes A wile
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POEM: In Sighting a Right
When light and dark clash… In Sighting a Right The light shone on Their misdeeds ON fool display OFF to the razes Tripping and flipping That awe im-potent switch Tempting too turn off Soully to be disconnected In their desperation … Continue reading
POEM: I’d Give My Write Arm for the Sound of You
I wrote this poem for the Toledo Museum of Art poetry contest this year. I didn’t win, so my status as an amateur poet is intact. This poem is a love poem beyond the grave, mourning a lost lover. This … Continue reading
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POEM: Awe is Not Lost
Are you tapped? There is an inexhaustible reservoir of awe. Awe is Not Lost Awe is not lost Awe is the soul compass Of true-hearted folks The antidote To narrow mined view points Teeming with succors of all kinds And … Continue reading
POEM: Unentitle Fight
Today is another good day to end the U.S.-Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. This poem goes out to the Palestinian people. Unentitle Fight U.S.-Israeli genocide Round nein! The bell He of the beast Verses people of awe … Continue reading
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POEM: I a Door
Here is a simple poem reflecting on my deinstitutionalization from church about a dozen years a go. I a Door I don’t go to church anymore Church comes to me Of course, I do find myself In church on rare … Continue reading
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POEM: Arose
This morning as I left the house, on a grungy fall day, I almost forgot my usual survey of my beautiful front yard, albeit with denuded trees and a carpet of wet leaves. As I walked away, I remembered, turned … Continue reading
POEM: Fallen Reign
The just persist. Fallen Reign The reign fell On the just And the knot sow just And might be What is it A boat As the tide razes all Weather you Noah or not That which bids An olive branch … Continue reading
POEM: The Future, The Passed
Here is a poem about the future, with two competing views; one anchored in both antiquity and eternity, multigenerational — the long view; versus another, characterized by the 30-second ad, 24-hour news cycle, and quarterly earnings reports — the short … Continue reading
POEM: Your Fired
Here is a poem in honor of COP 29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference happening now. The usual suspects, including a fossil-fuel friendly chair and a slew of fossil fuel lobbyists, will fiddle while Rome and all distant provinces … Continue reading
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POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
In these somewhat psychotic days, some may be tempted to believe that we can act outside of history, or ignore it. Still, I suspect that reality will have its way with us. This may lead to the inertia of history … Continue reading
POEM: Bred of Life
A short poem to remind us that awe is not lost. Bred of Life Eternity calls In every moment most kneaded Bred for ever and ever Flower and sweetness Salty tears Water yielding to life In tending The yeast of … Continue reading
POEM: Scorpions in a Bottle
One small hope in the unfolding Trump regime is that the off-the-charts power-mongering and corruption will result in minions behaving like scorpions in a bottle, turning on one another, perhaps degrading their degrading schemes. Scorpions in a Bottle The ultimate … Continue reading
POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
The myth of Icarus is one of hubris. Icarus fashions wings of feathers and wax and flies toward the sun. Untoward to him, the sun melts his wings and he plunges back to earth –for a new sort of flies… … Continue reading
POEM: Healing Fire
Love is bigger than hate. Healing Fire I am naught Created by my enemies The most fateful of lessens I am awe In the presents Of my One True Friend My soul in large A journey to love true That … Continue reading
POEM: Net Zeroed
A little Monty Python for a Monday mourning… Net Zeroed “We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing — In the end what have we lost? Nothing!” ― Monty Python I was down As a madder of fact … Continue reading
POEM: Showing Up
We are each a bit of magic forming the future, a collective world that much better. Showing Up I am Just A walking and talking Peace of meet Know magic To see Hear Awe those who have years Here Show … Continue reading
POEM: Taking, Their Q
Election day — so it begins. One last, hopefully last, poem about Trump, his lies and conspiracy rants, and his self-fulfilling profits. Taking, Their Q They took their Q From a toxic waste dump Of conspiracy theories Truth bastardized and … Continue reading