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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: Dream Catcher
A daze work Over Come Bye sleep Sow few dream catchers Sow many dreams And that’s the catch This poem is about work, vocation, passion, and burnout. This poem is mournful in that so many dreams go unrealized, uncaught. This … Continue reading
POEM: A Mega Something — Owed To Megabus
We waited Quiet A long time For what would be ours For what would pass As high noon Breaking the news As poor As the bussed itself Loitering in the company we keep A mega something But not a bus … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems
Tagged Money, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Guileless
Many amen Follows Such a singular attraction As a guileless woman Unable to disguise Her own beauty More than Enough This poem is an ode to the singular beauty of each and every woman, with a special nod to the … Continue reading
POEM: Shown Up
The last time He punched A time clock It was time to stop A feudal gesture Accept that It got him fired Up to his passions Eyes wide open After halving it awe And feeling dread In the mirror mourning … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Busyness, Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Efficiency, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Future, Genius, Hate, Job, Jobs, Life, Modern, Money, Mourning, Ode, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Proprietary, Security, Serendipity, Sleep, Success, Time, Violence, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Succumb Lame Less
He suffered Multiple strokes Of genius Rendering him Unable Not To speak Out With what Was in Left and right Both lame All to gather disarmed In infancy motions Red and blue Leaving won Marooned Feeling peaked In a fervorish … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Awe, Community, Death, Einstein, Genius, Ideology, Intellect, Joy, Ode, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Truth
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POEM: Weepin of Choice
His unwillingness to be a victim Soully exceeded Buy his willfulness to be a perpetrator Better to have Willed a gun Than mirrorly get A ballad in ahead That imminently natural selection Of hapless pray Re: in force Such patriotic … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cautionary Tale, Children, Creation, Death, Evil, Gift, God, Hate, Hell, Hope, Humanity, Job, Jobs, Kindness, Life, Loss, Mind, Murder, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rationalization, Religious, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, skin in the game, Soul, Spiritual, Values, Violence, War, Willingness, Worldview
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POEM: Born With Two Black Eyes: Owed To New Be and Queens
She was born with two black eyes Living in a whirled Wear her highest aspirations Sore over the lowly color blind As every color whited out Yet she sails the sees of dark and light As two dance freely A … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Classism, Compassion, Culture, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Racism, Sacrifice, Sexism, Short Poems, Truth, Wisdom, Women
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POEM: Speaking With Spoken Sword: Owed To Hungering Fore Anew ProMedica
The profit tiers Some how a peer To set the captives free Going won after the other Like mammon and famine As to somehow heel the ravenous As fiend and faux As sow appetite for the pauper reproach With such … Continue reading
POEM: For Awe That Has Been Urned
In her dreams She is wanting To be moved By more than Slumber too slumber Mirrorly to a wake Daze unending With that annoying buzz Thirst thing in the mourning The pique of the day The latest snooze A stay … Continue reading
POEM: To Abettor Portion: Owed To Math You 5:21-48
The shepherd pays dear Attention to his sheep As the sheep due Not follow suits But accompany prophets In ways safe from a peril That compound interest in the whirled As you have herd It said You shall not murder … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged algorithm, Awe, Character, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Debt, Dehumanizing, Evil, Fear, God, Grace, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Humanity, Ideology, Jesus, Joy, Life, Love, Murder, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Prophet, Reality, Religion, Solidarity, State, Wisdom, Work, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: Kindness 1.618 — Owed To The Goaled In Proportion
A parent In the relationship Between to be gotten The larger to the smaller The goaled in proportion Amidst just us Sum times christened The divine proportion And it doesn’t take A mathematical genus To divine its kind Never the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Beauty, Dalai Lama, Experience, Generosity, God, Grace, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Meaning, Nature, Ode, Perspective, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Relationships, Religion, Resentment, Sacred, Science, Social Justice, Soul, Work
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POEM: A Ledged Fall
The leaf let go Releasing awe that had given it life In what could have bin A swan dive Or a butterfly prancing But it was doing its own thing Lining up for know one Little did it no But … Continue reading
POEM: Are You A Friend of Dorothy?
As a friend of Dorothy Day I wood ax More than won quest in A bout Her call As a tenet in passable saint hood As if a priest to nun Or mirror lay person Aborting gaiety As an infallible … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abortion, America, Atheist, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Church, Citizenship, Culture, Dogma, Dorothy Day, Dream, Dreams, Elite, Faith, Gender, God, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Image, Ironic, Jesus, Life, Love, Play, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Present, Privilege, Questions, Religious, Sacred, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Wealth, Women, Work, Worship
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POEM: Can She Be Eunuch?
She stated No one else can do what I do To witch They rejoined Realing in whore Accept that you are a cog You intractable wrench Unfit for cloning round And unstranded She cut out From the puppet tier Knot … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Acceptance, Art, Capitalism, Common Good, Courage, Creativity, Crude, Cynical, Dehumanizing, Efficiency, Elite, Evil, Female, Foolish, Gift, God, Greed, Heart, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Monetize, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Present, Productivity, Rage, Rhetoric, Soul, Stupid, Time, Virtue, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Uncollecting Notions
She collected Dangerous notions Putting them on A shelf like Sew many trinkets Going know where This poem is about living on the edge, the fringes, the margins — which are populated with dangerous prospects. This poem is about being … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Conventional Wisdom, Ideals, Life, Poems, Poetry, Sacred, Short Poems, Superficial, Willingness, Wisdom
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POEM: Know Vacancy — Owed To Co-Dependency
Are you so-so special More than a little off Renting that hallowed space Inn one’s head To fiend and faux like For what Mounts to ears A-pathetic brood Checking in weigh too often Getting your pique of the litter Wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Business, Chaos, Codependnecy, Control, Crazy, Denial, Evil, Fear, God, Grace, Hope, Intimacy, Life, Love, Normal, Play, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Resentment, Risk, Soul
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