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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: Progressive Wins
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- POEM: Who Gets Too Pic?
- POEM: Faith, My Friends
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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Political I con
Here is some poetic justice for Donald Trump, aka The Don, an unworthy political icon. May we learn from his massive cautionary tail. Political I con From Fifth Avenue He shot Too star dumb All tolled Knot exactly a reality … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged America, Awe, Bible, Change, Character, Constitution, Donald Trump, Hell, Justice, Poetic Justice, Political, Reality
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POEM: Not Enough Knew Words
This poem is yet another tribute to the unfathomable, infinitely ineffable muse calling up new words and word plays to manifest her unending nature. Not Enough Knew Words Sew What’s up I can’t seam Too get my fill In this … Continue reading
POEM: The Devil Made Me – Due It
Here is a poem about one of my longstanding pet peeves, the moral laziness of “necessary” evil. Evil happens. Evil is unavoidable. Still, if evil is an ethical choice made by moral agents, it cannot be necessary. None the less, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ethical, Evil, Laziness, Moral, Quotes
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POEM: Giving a Flock
Today’s short, funny poem: Giving a Flock Have you herd The won A bout A vegan saying No harm No fowl
POEM: Knot Sound – Owed to the Sound of a Cynic Being Borne
Ever wonder what is the sound of a cynic being borne? Knot Sound: Owed to the Sound of a Cynic Being Borne When an angel gets their wings A bell rings You may have been tolled Sow harmless in a … Continue reading
POEM: Ghost Writer in the Sky
This poem, weather a dream or a nightmare, plays with that often thin line in life between terror and hope. Ghost Writer in the Sky What was this? An exhilarating dream Or night mare Taking my breath away Life suspended … Continue reading
POEM: WOKE
While I like sleep as much as the next person, probably more, I don’t really get why “woke” is so scary. Perhaps the unconscious should dictate our lives?! I, for won (and all), pray that I am ever open to … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Good, Elite, Equality, Hope, Racism, Reality, Sexism, Sleep
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POEM: Juggernaut of Whimsy
This poem is a tribute to the unstoppable spirit of the muse immersing me in whimsy. Juggernaut of Whimsy It came out Of know wear As if The whirled was over Flowing With hi spirits An immense see Giving me … Continue reading
POEM: Base Squared
One of my recent pet peeves is cable TV news in what seems to be am over-focus on Donald Trump, to the exclusion of the rest of the many intriguing and important things going on in the world. Ironically, these … Continue reading
POEM: Five Cops – a Plea
I am heartened to see the DOJ open a federal civil rights investigation into the murder of Tyree Nichols in Memphis months ago. Five Cops – a Plea Five police officers Killed Tyree Nichols In Memphis Making traffic stop And … Continue reading
POEM: Genuflecting On – Power
Have you ever wandered a bout a whirled where brutishness is rewarded and kindness forsaken? Genuflecting On: Power Demagogues and brutes Are marred to espouse Moral gravity A moral farce A raze to the bottom The principle of simpletons That … Continue reading
POEM: Sidewalk Poetry
A poem for summer daze. Sidewalk Poetry In creation Where spirit and earth meet Life sprouts In the city Neighbors, homes, And every kind Of busyness Are connected Where the concrete meets souls Where will your feat take you? Today … Continue reading
POEM: Grizzled Prospector
This poem is about the difficult prospecting in life for goaled. There are many treasures to be discovered and re-discovered, even as life occasionally collapses upon us. Of course, each time we get through to the other side, however grizzled, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Heaven, Journey, Life, Soul, Time
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POEM: A Seventh Generation Fuel
This poem is a tip of the hat to indigenous peoples’ supremely wise practice of considering every decision in the light of how it will affect people seven generations down the road. I wrote this during the dark of the … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Foolish, History, Mother Earth, Political, Wisdom
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POEM: Secret Quest
This poem plays with the intrinsically obscure interior nature of subjective experience. While one may want to speak of potentially mystical or God experiences, there is an irreducible aspect that cannot be reliably verified, at least in the typical scientific … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, God, Meaning, Mystical, Nature
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POEM: Simply Living
This poem regarding simple living and simply living is about simply valuing people over things. Such an anti-consumerist lifestyle recognizes that increasing materialism edges out, and often runs roughshod over, our shared humanity. May we live ever aware and valuing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Capitalism, Consumerism, Cynicism, Greed, Humanity, Lifestyle, Materialism
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POEM: Bastard Won and Awe
This poem is a tribute to that parent of us awe, oddly making us sort of bastards, yet siblings to all. Feel free to join this family of virtues. Bastard Won and Awe I am A bastard Fodder to none … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Children, Faith, Family, Generosity, Hope, Love, Patience
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POEM: Chicken Factory of Death
Today, news hit of a child dying from an industrial accident in a chicken industry where child labor is supposedly illegal. This poem goes out to Duvan Tomas Perez and our chicken body politic: Chicken Factory of Death A child … Continue reading
POEM: The Muse
This poem is about the muse striking when she sees fit, or knot. The pandemic was quiet a dry spell for my poetry, partly because my time and creative energies where engaged in my public health radio show. Still, I … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems
Tagged Awe, Muse, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Public Health, Time
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POEM: The Whole In My Soul
This poem is about living in the grievously beautiful realty that a truly open heart is a broken heart. I wrote this poem years ago, and now I have come to understand that my heart is broke in, as in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Beauty, Heart, Life, Soul
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