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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: Throwing Up Her Arms in Disgust
She threw up her arms in disgust He said that she might want to stick to finger food This short, funny poem is a good case study into how my twisted mind works. First, I am not often put off … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Food, Funny, Humor, Logic, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Whimsy
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POEM: Know Knead to Brink
I live at the fringes At the boundary of what is and what could be Sow playful a lure At the threshold of what might not be and what should be Seriously brewed At the edge of the abyss I … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, Anxiety, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Chaos, Community, Control, Courage, Creation, Enemies, Experience, Facts, Fear, Gandhi, God, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Life, Love, Meaning, Moral, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Punishment, Reality, Rules, Sociopathy, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent
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POEM: A Life Virtual, oh so…
There was twitter Jen Facebook Jen Work Jen School Jen Family Jen Amongst others Never at risk That they would hookup Or unplug In some formidable Jen convention Or at least the latest version In some ever expending universe Wear … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Authenticity, Experience, facebook, Family, Heart, Hope, Identity, Intimacy, Life, Love, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Relationships, Risk, Superficial, Time, Trust, Universe, Virtual Reality, Work
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POEM: Until The Banks Overflow
In awe of creation I am Not alone There is just us Like an ever flowing stream Until the banks overflow Into unquenchable cache And from the breast Of life Sucking I am left Nothing more Than write This short … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Creation, Greed, Life, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Scarcity, Short Poems
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POEM: Unsatisfying Kiss
A philosopher trying to ascertain God’s existence Is like a man trying to kiss himself And even less satisfying This short poem is simply a poetic attempt to get at the chasm of difference between speaking about God and actually … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Creation, Experience, Food, God, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: Duckiness
Long the weigh I miss Took some clash Charging another Once an abject of my affection Now a worthy suspect In a lineup Of numbered whoa’s Among many Seedy subjects On the lam Yet beyond a shadow Of doubt To … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Attitude, Blessing, Change, Choices, Compassion, Control, Experience, Generosity, Healing, Hope, Intimacy, Kindness, Life, Loss, Love, Passion, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Psychology, Relationships, Responsibility, Romantic, Suffering, Time, Vulnerability, Work
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POEM: Wage Slave Be Free
I am not a wage slave I am free And worth every penny This week, I celebrated 10 years free from wage slavery! My ensuing poverty has been a small price to pay for this freedom. I am the richest … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Climate Change, Diminishing Returns, Economic, Employment, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Happiness, History, Income, Job, Jobs, Labor, Life, Lifestyle, Living Simply, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poverty, Power, Productivity, Rich, Short Poems, Slavery, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Eulogizing Fort Hood
Eulogizing Fort Hood It is not ours to ask Why those so schooled In violence Should act violently On a vocation so seriously Taking Won too many weepings Lead so quickly Penetrating human hearts Our own flesh Not at home … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Guns, Heart, Nonviolence, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Rage, Veterans, Violence, Vocation
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POEM: Mountain of Love
He cried out “I would climb the highest mountain for you!” She said “How about doing your fair share of housework?” This short poem goes out to all the ladies in the house. I am a big fan of epic … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Funny, Heart, Love, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Romantic, Sex, Short Poems, Universe, Work
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POEM: Inexplicably Wonderful
The gift of life Is quite inexplicably wonderful But fear not Teams of scientists Are working Around the clock To redress this problem Skepticism has its limits. In practice, I am a skeptic of much skepticism. Life is wonderful. The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynical, Cynicism, Disease, Fear, Gift, Gratitude, Heaven, Irony, Life, Meaning, Militant, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Religion, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Time, Work
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POEM: Model Citizen
Rowan was a model citizen One-eighth scale Painstakingly posed With animating make up Almost lifelike This short poem, “Model Citizen,” is a reflection on the life-like which should only be mistaken for life at one’s own peril — or, in … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Change, Citizens, Citizenship, Cliche, Common Good, Community, Consumption, Culture, Death, Democracy, Economy, Elite, Evil, Gandhi, Illusions, Life, Market, Modern, Nature, Play, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Progress, Proprietary, Reality, Religious, Resistance, Rich, Risk, Short Poems, Society, Status, Status Quo, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization
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POEM: Evolution of a Writer
Evolution of a Writer You have evolved into quite a writer Could you write something for my company? He solicited Presumably thinking I was still into monkey business Not even grasping I was clearly out of my tree This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Business, Commercial, Compromise, Creativity, Darwin, Depression, Evolution, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Future, Humanity, Inspiration, Ironic, Job, Joy, Life, Logic, Market, Materialist, Meaning, Money, Nature, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Present, Questions, Reality, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Sex, Simplicity, Society, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent, Truth, Vocation, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s)
Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s) Welcome to the hood A fort of freedom Billed upon violence Up in arms With billions in cache Yet what remains Unexplained Bodies of evidence About faces Ambushed from deep within Sow unlike The enemy … Continue reading
POEM: Razz Putin: Owed to Ukraine
As things Go south And wiled west Stupefying as some razz Putin What due we have Hear A good ol’ boy Re-siding in backcountry Rushin’ cross Too bear An unsettling black see A lynch pin for his sue veneer pogram … Continue reading
POEM: The Game of Life
One day I realized The game of life And going back In the box Only to find The rules had been lost Long a go And still The game goes on This short poem plays with the notion that life … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Attitude, Authority, Awe, Buddhism, Change, Character, China, Consciousness, Courage, Creativity, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Foolish, Freedom, God, Greed, Hate, Hope, Humor, Hypocrisy, Idealism, Insanity, Institutionalize, Irreverence, Joy, Life, Love, Militarism, Mind, Modern, Obedience, Pacifism, Play, Playfulness, Political, President, Psychology, Questioning, Rage, Reality, Religion, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rhetoric, Rich, Rules, Sacred, Sincerity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Success, Truth, Universe, Utopia, Violence, War, Willingness, Wisdom, Zen
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POEM: Impartiality
Judge Stamper was renown For his impartiality Still thinking Nothing of Preferring Stepping on others Rather than being stepped upon A justice so becoming A courting to a void Deputizing peons Siding with minute ordnances Backed up by deferential canons … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crime, Criminal Justice System, Evil, Experience, Generosity, Impersonal, Injustice, Justice, Legalism, Modern, Nazi, Objectivity, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prison, Punishment, Reality, Responsibility, Rich, Rules, Society, State, Success, Truth, War, War Crimes, Western Civilization
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POEM: Let Us Join Together
Let us join together Leaving behind creed and class Races and titles Just walking the walk And occasional talk Working side by side with hands and hearts Playing in fields with horizons stretching And resting without fences or locks Taking … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Dystopia, Heart, Hope, Life, Play, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Utopia, Work
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