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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: Sinking Ship
When a ship is sinking It may be wiser to follow the rats Rather than the humans That is, if you can tell the difference This Titanic poem juxtaposes the zeniths and abysses of humans, created only a little less … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crises, Experience, Foolish, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Rat Race, Short Poems, Simplicity, Titanic, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: Disillusionment
You say that you’re disillusioned like it’s a bad thing My whole life I’ve heard people talk about being disillusioned in one way or another. Not once have I heard this with anything but a negative connotation. This one line … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Cynicism, Disillusionment, Enlightenment, Gratitude, Hope, Humanity, Illusions, Life, Meaning, One-line Poems, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Truth
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POEM: By No Means Necessary
By No Means Necessary When the strident are Up in arms Staking their claims By any means necessary May such a battlefield Arouse patience strewn A bout Of faith Inciting our most gratuitous hopes By any kinds possible The prison … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Community, Compulsion, Cynical, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Kindness, Life, Militant, Moral, Morality, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Present, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, skin in the game
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POEM: Monkeys with Typewriters
If you put a hundred monkeys with typewriters in a room Would there be any way to tell That it wasn’t the Fox News copy room? This short poem is a parody of both the infinite monkey theorem and Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Blessing, Christian, Conservative, Evolution, Fox News, Meaning, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Probability, Randomness, Shakespeare, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Universe, Work
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POEM: Rumi-nation
I live in a perpetual Rumi-nation This simple one-line poem reflects a basic experience in my life, in general, and as a poet. As a poet, my mind, at times, drifts into aha moments of epiphanies, and at times, races … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Illegal, Immigration, Life, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, One-line Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Rumi, Time
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POEM: Smoking Guns
Smoking Guns Gun control is their aim Bringing a bout Sad states And a stag nation Wear points are sported Big bucks are the game Triggering depression Beyond one’s cope Looking down The business end Of a gun shaking As … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Citizens, Congress, Control, Crude, Death, Depression, Dreams, Experience, Family, Firearms, Guns, Kids, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Mental Health, Mourning, Murder, Nature, Political, Public Health, Reality, Science, Sleep, State, Suicide, Women
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POEM: Hope Inflamed
Hope Inflamed Hope inflamed That which cannot be Put out Will consume every individual Testing their mettle Forging in feeleds Just discovered From a crucible witch lies unknown Alloys forever Stronger than any metal Purely a loan No matter How … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Death, Denial, Dystopia, Enemies, Enlightenment, Existential, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Gandhi, Hope, Jesus, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Patriotism, Poems, Power, Powers that be, Protest Poetry, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Soul, State, Transcendent, Trust, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Author Author Original
Author Author Original Many great authors Veritable prose Composed Many glorified pages Of legends owed Epitomizing a theme Depicting perfect variations Epic anecdotes In firmity Contracted By edifices Of many stories I prefer the novelty Of a single sentence Unleashing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Commercial, Food, Freedom, Image, Literate, Modern, Monetize, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prose, Puns, Western Civilization
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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