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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: 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
- POEM: Brand Knew
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Tag Archives: Chaos
POEM: De-construction Jobs
This poem goes out to those lives and communities where climate disasters wreak havoc, especially those suffering in the chasm between those who have the wherewithal to recover and those who don’t. May we be good neighbors to each other … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authorities, Chaos, Jobs, Mother Earth, Suffering, Work
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POEM: US Verses Wee
We live in a world with far too much “US versus THEM.” Partisanship and division reign chaos. Tribalism breeds violence. This poem wakes to a different dream… US Verses Wee Won quiet mourning I awoke There was no US Every … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Chaos, Dream, Mourning, Partisan, Partisanship, Violence
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POEM: Unentitled Number Two
This poem peered early this morning. The muse strikes again! This poem is a poet’s poem, and a tip of the hat to one of my favorite poets, Rumi. Who is that says you can’t feel the sublime standing in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Muse, Poet, Rumi
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POEM: Having a Ball
This short poem is a sporty ode to love outdoing chaos with an awesome attunement to sublime harmony and joy and by artfully wielding a juggernaut of creativity. Love is an eternally open invitation. Please feel free to RSVP and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Creativity, Harmony, Joy, Love, Ode
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POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles
This poem is yet another ode to my love affair with Mother Earth and the endurance and multi-generational commitment needed to forestall catastrophic climate chaos. Walking the Second Thousand Miles Hiking out of a desert Of environmental neglect With rising … Continue reading
Free Political Poster: HISTORY – Rinse Repeat – Negro Man, I AM A MAN, Immigrant Children, I AM A CHILD
As is often repeated in history, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” And we are neck deep in shampoo, as we rinse history and repeat it. The iconic image of a black man holding … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Chaos, Children, Citizens, Civil Rights, Cruelty, Elections, Family, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, government, Heart, History, Human Rights, Illegal, Image, Immigration, Job, Learning, Military, National, National Security, Political, President, Refugees, Risk, Security, State, Time, Voters, Work, Zero Tolerance
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FREE Anti-TRUMP POSTER: Prez Donald Trump Deals With KAOS – The Russians have created KAOS, and it is time to GET SMART So, I’d like to introduce my new National Security Advisor and CIA Director
The Chaos-Monger-in-Chief Donald Trump knows chaos. As he declares that the Russians have successfully sown chaos in America, he advises that America GET SMART, like really smart. This free political satire poster relies on the pop culture reference of the … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Chaos, Consciousness, Culture, Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, National, National Security, Parodies, Political, Pop Culture, Reality, Satire, Security, Time, War
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: TRUMP PROBE CONTINUES – I’m calling for a probe into every woman in America and I will lead the way – BELIEVE ME NOT WOMEN
Donald Trump’s signature psychological projection and political tactic of “No, not me, you!” is central to his chaos-mongering and perpetual distraction. The fragile ego of his big league narcissism effortlessly presumes that any criticism of him is only due to … Continue reading
POLITICAL POEM: Trump U Verses Screw U
O pose The establishment Of his style Outside is in Down with up As drive in reveres “I love sow and sow more than anyone” And awe That is Con men Selling Brooklyn bridges To no where That is good … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Chaos, Creativity, Democracy, Donald Trump, government, Hope, Humanity, Labor, Love, Moral, Nationalism, Oligarchy, Partisan, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, Resistance, Rich, Security, Society, Solidarity, Unity, Women, Xenophobia
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POLITICAL POEM: In Daze Not To Follow
The plantation had fallen Into this repair As fore many Present Work Over and above The well, known Used Too deep scars And familiar ditches dug Subject to an other privilege However bound Too knew found freedom And worldwide travails … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Courage, Cynicism, Donald Trump, Experience, Freedom, Future, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Present, Privilege, Questions, Racism, Reality, Solidarity, Stupid, Work
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Incremental Change, Heads Up!
This free political poster posits that the conventional wisdom of incremental change can be lethal to paradigm shifts needed for humanity to evolve to the next level. Devotees of incremental change may view death by degrees as safer, or at least … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Ballot, Change, Chaos, Compromise, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Democracy, Donald Trump, Evil, Evolution, Experience, Fear, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, God, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, Injustice, Liberation Theology, Life, Love, Paradigm Shift, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Preferential Option for the Poor, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Status, Status Quo, Sustainable, Theology, Top Pun, Truth, Values, Voting, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Awe Due Consideration
What is good A bout religion At best There is little to say Giving a fare hearing More about listening Too small Still voices Respecting only what due Saving A few choice words For those empower Occupying humanity Only in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Chaos, Consciousness, Economy, Experience, Gandhi, Gift, God, Hell, Humanity, Irreverence, Life, Moral, Muse, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Scarcity, Science, Silence, Truth, Universe
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POEM: When Butterflies Aren’t Free
The butterfly has landed A monarch of unspoiled nature As we’d taken over Urban land escapes Of green carpet bombing Convinced that lawn enforcement Must be On our side Sow naturally lying In trails Of never ending growth A cancer … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Environment, Life, Mind, mother nature, Mourning, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Toledo, Violence
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POEM: Know Vacancy — Owed To Co-Dependency
Are you so-so special More than a little off Renting that hallowed space Inn one’s head To fiend and faux like For what Mounts to ears A-pathetic brood Checking in weigh too often Getting your pique of the litter Wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Business, Chaos, Codependnecy, Control, Crazy, Denial, Evil, Fear, God, Grace, Hope, Intimacy, Life, Love, Normal, Play, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Resentment, Risk, Soul
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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: Less Taken Now
It was an eve to remember The surf was swell Giving rise to him Way above his peers He cried out mightily “I’m on top of the world!” Just moments later Crashing onto the rocks Baring him No ill will … 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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3D POEM: My Twisted Uni-verse (on a Mobius Strip)
This 3D POEM, My Twisted Uni-verse, may very well be the first poem ever written to be read on a Mobius Strip, made from a plain strip of paper with a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a … Continue reading
POEM: Same Old Hope
He said, “Wow, you’re the same old hopeful person.” I said “Yes, and somewhat dyslexic. I’m a Samo Hopien” This short poem doubles as a bad joke. Appropriately so, my dyslexia is in tandem with the double vision of punning. … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Abundance, Chaos, Creativity, Cruelty, Gandhi, Gift, Hope, Integrity, Joke, Justice, Learning, Life, Meaning, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Psychology, Short Poems, Social Justice, Top Pun, Work
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