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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: Tasting God
Tasting God I almost tasted God In what turned out To be A fine guacamole A common mistake Well worth repeating I find eating guacamole a religious experience. As family legend has it, when we lived in Haiti when I … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Family, Food, God, Haiti, Joy, Life, Mom, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Religious, Short Poems
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POEM: Ad Dulled State
Ad Dulled State Well come To this ad dulled state What will it take To see the light Tell a vision Divining every yen Razing the whys Jacking up All that meters Taxi’ing every quarter our Static being drug Swallowing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Commercial, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Food, Freedom, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Pop Culture, Power, Rage, State, Status, Technology, Titanic, Truth, Virtue
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POEM: Taken In
Taken In What powerful minds Can wrap themselves around Pails in comparison To the sea of mysteries Taken in By an open heart Keys to a door unlocked Incite weighting A mountain of presents Countless Un-rapt By lesser mines Fuels … Continue reading
POEM: Tracing Humanity
Tracing Humanity They say that You can tell A lot About a person By what they do This, of course, is on track Still, there is a better weigh The difference between animals and humans That which earthly scales can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Authority, Balance, Character, Choices, Control, Conundrum, Ethics, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Harmony, Heart, Humanity, Integrity, Kids, Life, Logic, Moral, Morality, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Psychology, Reality, Rebellion, Sacred, Secrets, Serenity, Skepticism, Spiritual, Spirituality, Truth, Worldview
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POEM: The Deep End
The Deep End I fell Off The deep end Only too narrowly Missing a shallow end As was my aim The river is wide Full of whys Like some Chicken of the see Not to swim To the other side … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Efficiency, Experience, Life, Poems, Poetry, Spiritual, Virtue
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POEM: Revolutions Violent
Revolutions Violent Any revolution That must dispose of enemies Remains Mirrorly A turning Of the tables Going round Not with standing How grate thou Art And wore A game that can only Play you Fraught with duel intentions That two-sided … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Demonization, Denial, Enemies, Evil, God, Hope, Life, Mind, Play, Poems, Poetry, Punishment, Reality, Responsibility, Revolution, Sacred, Truth, Violence, War
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POEM: Navy Yard Killings
Navy Yard Killings In these crazy times Of senseless killings Nations seek a return To sensible killings There are many levels of crazy. There are perhaps even more levels of crazy when it comes to killing. I am not surprised … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Business, Compassion, Crazy, Dream, Empathy, Family, God, Grace, Heart, History, Hope, Irony, Love, Military, Navy, Normal, Obama, Pacifism, Poems, Poet, Power, President, Projection, Reality, Short Poems, Slavery, Sleep, Status, Violence, War, Wisdom
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POEM: I Could Have Swore
I Could Have Swore Backs against the wall And faceless No name to call Wandering If anyone Ever Will get their drift Homie-less At the center A cross person Surrounded by thieves And gawkers In a sea of blindness In … Continue reading
POEM: Relationship Test
I like to be alone Especially when you and I are together I wrote this as a love poem. Surprisingly, really surprisingly, I did not see the second way to read this poem. Herein lies the test. If you read … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Insecurities, Love, Love Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Finding Myself
One day I found myself What do you know, it was right where I left myself Amidst the ennui of modern society, people are prone to set about finding themselves. Amidst fast-paced living, there is a tendency to look ahead … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authenticity, Happiness, Modern, Society
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POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Walling Yourself In
I am reason Number 921 For building a wall Between you and me Overly ecstatic Seemingly erratic You think that you are keeping me out But you are just walling yourself in Weather a fence Or a prison Your own … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Freedom, Irony, Meaning, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Risk, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Love Tag
“I love you.” “I love you back, you’re it!” One of my more simple love poems, this playful back and forth is an invitation to continue exchanging loving acts and loving expressions. Of course, “you’re it” is a pun, as … Continue reading
POEM: Efficiency Expert
The efficiency expert asked me How many poems can I write Per hour Well, if I only Had but one hour I would guess a singular poem Western civilization seems obsessed with efficiency. Of course, high efficiency is no guarantee … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Courage, Dream, Efficiency, God, Hope, Humor, Integrity, Joke, Joy, Life, Love, Mind, Modern, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Success, Thoreau, Time, Trust, Western Civilization
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POEM: My Ransom
I had drug All my holdings To the pinnacle of possessions And the depths of conceded Realizing Long the way It was My ransom Delivering me Oftentimes our possessions end up possessing us. Like a drug addiction that has a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Freedom, Poems, Poetry, Possessions, Power, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Status, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Paying Attention
Are you too broke to pay attention? This one-line poem most directly seeks to de-link material wealth from perhaps the greatest tool available to humans: consciousness, or mindfulness. Being able to access mindfulness, regardless of wealth, status, or “worldly” power, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Compassion, Consciousness, Empathy, Enlightenment, Equality, God, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Humility, Justice, Life, Mindfulness, One-line Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Short Poems, Status, Subjectivity, Suffering, Wealth
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POEM: Taking Care
Take care Steal it if you must There may well be an epidemic of people not taking good care of themselves. This is often times due to an undue focus on other things and other people. Of course, caring for … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Balance, Compassion, Empathy, Equality, Gift, Human Rights, Love, Poems, Poetry, Sacred, Short Poems, Spiritual
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