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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: Capitalism Perfected
Capitalism perfected Wear every won Cells their soul And when Every body No’s that They have A fare price For dreams fabricated And nightmares awoken This poem’s title has a misleading title which implies that capitalism can be perfected. The twist … Continue reading
POEM: Know More Than Sentimental Fuels
I am petroleum I am coal I am “natural” gas Set me free From my dark and stony hearth My fiery nature lying in wait Sow vent on destruction And I will bequeath Once-in-an-eon jobs That you will blow In … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Change, Character, Climate Change, Courage, Environment, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Hell, Humanity, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Money, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Sustainable, Time
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POEM: The Death of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier
He was a Baby with a capital B A ruler by which so many would be judged He was unjust A child of 20 A President for life A President for death As so many capriciously dyin’ with a king … Continue reading
POEM: The Awe Might He Acorn
The acorns fall Like reign From above As the mighty yoke is broken Flailing to grasp the gravity of the situation Each won A tiny oak Tolled by nature If only Such nuts Can hold there ground And a void … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Art, Awe, Experience, Fear, Future, Hope, Job, Joke, Life, Meaning, Muse, Nature, Normal, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Probability, Scarcity, Toledo
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POEM: A Strange Gift From Smother Earth
I awoke Too the rumble Of a river of cars Getting the goods Being trucked over and over As fuming motorists And fuelish consumers Whirled wide Tank up With great import As their gauges reach emptily A diction Beyond words … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Crude, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Gift, Humanity, Insanity, Justice, Life, Lifestyle, Military, Mind, Moral, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poetry, Pollution, Silence, Success, Suicide, Sustainable
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POEM: Show Down With That
A mid-afternoon cloud drifts along Down below, high noon stretches into its fourth hour Brazen vapors pining to be seen A vain tease its silver linings To dormant soles never looking up Know glorious rays today! As nature out laud … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Happiness, Heaven, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Time, Universe, Work
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POEM: Cautionary Tail
Shadow pays homage to light In a place beyond compare And as a cautionary tail May you not be doggedly wagged This short poem is a tip of the hat to the Taoist idea of complimentariness or yin-yang, such as … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Cautionary Tale, Enlightenment, Evil, Experience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Tao
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POEM: Dead Precedents
The whirled is full of dollereds Strewing up our future With dead precedents And we no where Greed takes us This short poem addresses the persistence of greed, even though its poor outcomes are well documented and embedded in human … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Choices, Compassion, Curiosity, Denial, Existential, Experience, Facts, Future, Greed, Harmony, Hope, Humanity, Journey, Joy, Life, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Reality, Selfish, Short Poems, Temptation
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POEM: The Lost Heart of Wore
Dave lost his head On the edge of barbarism Shariq found his blown to pieces On the edge of civilization Savage swordplay and droning videogames Medieval meets modern Death metes equally To those dispensing Aid to enemas And bad abettors … Continue reading
POEM: A Weigh of Death
If you must kill For your way of life It is a weigh of death Knot a way of life This short poem cuts to the chaste on this anniversary of 9/11, formerly unknown as the anniversary of the U.S.-backed, … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, America, Choices, Death, government, Life, Military, Noncombatants, Poems, Poetry, Quotes, Short Poems, War
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POEM: A Full Life
Charlie’s life was full Every available space laden to wrest His productivity well suited To his interests Taxidermy and robotics This short poem offers a challenge to what it means to have a full life in modern Western civilization, where … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Anxiety, Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Capitalism, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Experience, God, Hope, Image, Inane, Job, Labor, Life, Modern, Nature, Perspective, Productivity, Questioning, Revolution, Revolutionary, Silence, Suffering, Tao, Vocation, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: There Is Something About Dusk
There is something about dusk A gentle luminosity Embracing the culmination Of a day’s chores Twilight invites any weariness Into a slow motion space Where tomorrow is unkneaded That in-between place Where light lingers And shadows soften As a sentient … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Dream, Dreams, Future, Puns, Sleep, Soul, Toledo
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POEM: Sex Before Marriage?
He in choired So you think people should have sex before marriage? My straight forward rejoined her: Hell, I think people should have sex before breakfast! This short poem is a playful response to the straight-laced attitudes of many religious … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Attitude, Catholic, Community, Conservative, Hell, Ironic, Mock, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Religion, Religious, Sex, Sexuality, Short Poems, Whimsical
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POEM: Rent This Poem
Rent this poem Call 419-244-2169 This simple poem is a parody of commercialism. This poem mocks the lack of real content in many advertisements. Unfortunately, countless advertisements bombard most any available space in our lives. Such ads compete for our … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Commercial, Inane, Mock, Parodies, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: What Sup? — Owed to Michael Brown and Ferguson, MO
They come with walls of armor And arms, oh, the arms Ever prepared to do the riot thing Will their fear be matched By the fire in the bellies Of protesters Waving conflagrations Or hands bound Staring down such a … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Community, Crime, Demonstrators, Fear, Justice, Law, Law Enforcement, Meaning, Murder, Outrage, Police, Protesters, Racism, Rage, Security, Time
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POEM: The Death of Poetry
A critic posed A question Is poetry dead? But for the piles of dead poets Worth only one read assent A qualm comes Over me As death summons Unwanted clarity Between write and throng Stern and bow A demanding curt … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynical, Death, Foolish, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prose, Questions, Reality, Resurrection
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POEM: As I Poor Myself
As I poor myself Out into the streets A pasture for the people At ease with just us Weather soon becoming A torrent of change Oar that which trickles our fancy A tributary to humanity That no’s know bounds And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Community, Courage, Experience, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Life, Money, Passion, Poor, Power, Rage, Rebellion, Status, Status Quo, Transcendent
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POEM: Quiet the View
Hope Was Present On the horizon South East West North into the fabric of existence Be not afraid Weather Looking up Looking down Such peek experiences Are awe ways just Round the corner I haven’t published a poem in a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Faith, Family, Fear, God, Hope, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Life, Love, Mind, Mom, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Present, Short Poems, Time
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