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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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- POEM: Fallen Reign
- POEM: The Future, The Passed
- POEM: Your Fired
- POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
- POEM: Bred of Life
- POEM: Scorpions in a Bottle
- POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
- POEM: Healing Fire
- POEM: Net Zeroed
- POEM: Showing Up
- POEM: Taking, Their Q
- POEM: King of the Hill
- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
- POEM: Wiled Fires
- POEM: Progress
- POEM: Fratricide
- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
- POEM: A Poet’s Currency
- POEM: Love Birds
- POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
- POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
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Tag Archives: Beautiful
POEM: Slow Mo’ Bettor Blues
Is it awe A gambol Sometimes you git Their faster In slow motion More rarefied Then a tortoise and its hair Relegated to children Of God Knowing nothing In the phase of fabled Head weigh Breeding like Rabbits Countering undeniable … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awe, Beautiful, Children, Control, Creation, Culture, Denial, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Gandhi, God, History, Holy, Hospitality, Human Nature, Humanity, Impersonal, Life, Love, Modern, Nationalism, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview
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POEM: Fore Awe That Can Be Souled
He lived buy The law of the jungle Except for that whole jungle thing And law Fore that madder Welcome too Living bye A-morality A-weigh of living A-lien from nature As not giving One ascent Fore awe that can be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Character, Competition, Death, Evil, Experience, Fear, Gift, Greed, Human Nature, Humanity, Inspiration, Law, Life, Moral, Morality, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Respect, Reverence, Soul, Time, Violence
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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: 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: Megabus Late
The loco bus Was barely running Trafficking in creep after creep At Lake & Michigan It was sink or swim Facing too soon departed To be won or lost By foot Right, left, right, left, right, left, right Miraculously walking … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Future, God, John Lennon, Life, Poor, Serendipity, Surprises, Toledo
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POEM: Her Beatify Regime
She offered her life for others Occupying the known and unknown In a humanity so rare As a piece of raw flesh Nourishing friend and faux akin Wear life and dead meet Sow mysteriously Anew humanity Becoming In awe weighs … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Beauty, Children, Creation, Cruelty, Death, Domination, Evil, Experience, Future, Grace, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Nonviolent, Ode, Present, Secrets, Surprises, Time, Transcendent, Virtue, Wisdom
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POEM: In Possibility Incarnate
Alex created A work of art And Another Each infinitely improbable In possibility incarnate Bound only By certain desire One in many This poem is a mini-manifesto on art and the artistic process; hopefully, inducing some inspiration and incarnating some … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awareness, Beautiful, Change, Character, Existential, Experience, Freedom, Gender, God, Heart, Inspiration, Life, Manifesto, masculinity, Meaning, Passion, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Religion, Self-Awareness, Work
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POEM: As the Show Must…Go On!
As the Show Must…Go On! Desperately seeking an audience With kings, queens, and commoners Call in the troupes! Who will perform her Aspiring thespians Willing to do Shakespeare Or any low brow play right As parts are parts Whether broad … Continue reading
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: Amateurs and Prose
There are moments When I feel Like such an amateur Then the payments come So much more Than I could ever hope for The only falling short Is ever thinking That life Is fated to be Any won thing Except … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Beautiful, Debt, Experience, Generosity, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Hope, Life, Luck, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Reality, Serendipity
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POEM: As The Tao Plunges
As The Tao Plunges I seek boundless horizons Beyond what can be billed What you can have Fore walls No bull work A retainer for passable living A cistern to dammed dreams Reining upon you Only knot to be brothered … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Advertising, America, Awe, Balance, Beautiful, Celebrity, Confucianism, Creation, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Harmony, Heart, History, Humanity, Identity, Image, Life, Logic, Mind, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Propriety, Questions, Reality, Risk, Rules, Sociopathy, Superficial, Tao, Time, timeless question, Vegetarianism, Western Civilization, Work, Workplace
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POEM: Lust Potential
Lust Potential He looked about him And saw Their cups were filled Even overflowing And still He mourned The size of their cups Years ago, I heard a description of heaven as a place where no matter the size of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Acceptance, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Envy, Experience, Fear, God, Heaven, Image, Inspiration, Jealousy, Joy, Life, Loss, Love, Mourning, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Redemption, Scarcity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Writing Poetry
I like writing poetry except for the writing part Writing poetry is an art from the heart. If there is work in writing poetry, of which I don’t find much, it somehow relates to brain functioning. My favorite definition of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beautiful, Experience, Heart, Image, Inspiration, Joy, Love, Mind, Mystery, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Short Poems, Work
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POEM: Entitled to be Untitled
Your life is a work of art Entitled to be untitled Your life is beautiful. Your life is a work of art. Your life cannot be reduced to a thing; it is irreducibly mysterious. Any label is inadequate. I have … Continue reading