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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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POEM: Owed To That Angelic Rainbow
Red of blood spilled From beautiful hearts Red of hatred Bearing queer fruit With sure fire weapons Crying Out Too much red in that angelic rainbow Never again! With only won possible Out Come In flaming community Solidarity pain the … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, News, Poems
Tagged Anti-Homophobia, Beautiful, Community, Enemies, Gender, Hate, Homophobia, LGBT, Love, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Pride, Queer, Solidarity
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POEM: A Choiring, Raw Youth
Their raw youth Was tenderly witnessed By age owed eyes In awe Their awkward glory Surpassing polished learning More than could ever anew This poem is a reminder to both young and old about the raw beauty of youth, the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Community, Compassion, Dream, Experience, Grace, Hope, Joy, Kids, Learning, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Trust
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POEM: Re-lying on Day-old Knews
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah The news drones on Massaging and spinning Disembodied heads a top Heartless ‘n titties in dis cursive and desultry means Temperately flailing to wake us From our terrorific slumber Our tired and true rejoinder Hit … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Democracy, Drones, Evil, Farce, Fox News, Humanity, Just for the Health of It, Media, Objectivity, Parodies, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Public Health, Responsibility, Superficial, Toledo, Truth, Vanity, Violence, WAKT
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POEM: Another Martyr Bides The Dust
Another martyr bides the dust And I was a stray Beside myself In the fog Of yet another mourning The missed over my heart Feeling only that ephemeral beaten The wait on my brain Fueled into thinking of the dread … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Character, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Community, Compassion, Conscience, Conservative, Death, Dorothy Day, Elite, Environmental, Family, Fear, Freedom, God, government, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Hope, Human Race, Imperialism, Integrity, Jesus, Life, Love, Martyr, Militarism, Military, Mourning, National, nobel peace prize, Obedience, Occupy Wall Street, Oligarchy, Poems, Poet, Political, Poverty, Power, Prison, Protests, Religious, Religious Freedom, Risk, Sacred, State, Time, Truth, Wall Street, War, Women, Work
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POEM: Love Making
I was mistaken All those years Those sweetest ours Thinking I was making love When in truth Love was making me This love poem, as most of my poems, can be read several ways. Of course, the simplest reading is … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Community, Courage, God, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Life, Love, Love Poems, Mind, Mystery, Patience, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Reality, Relationships, Romantic, Spiritual, Truth, Work
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POEM: Corn Fed Politicians
We are surrounded By corn fed politicians Who don’t eat corn But slaughter the herd Fed only corn In a round a bout weigh In realty And capitol punishment Their hire power Contracts executioners To deal with every unwieldy beef … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Authority, Community, Cynical, Dehumanizing, Elite, Food, Job, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Meaning, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Punishment, Radical, Relationships, Respect, Sustainable, Work
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POEM: Succumb Lame Less
He suffered Multiple strokes Of genius Rendering him Unable Not To speak Out With what Was in Left and right Both lame All to gather disarmed In infancy motions Red and blue Leaving won Marooned Feeling peaked In a fervorish … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Awe, Community, Death, Einstein, Genius, Ideology, Intellect, Joy, Ode, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Truth
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POEM: Attorney General Edwin Meese III
I know of a man I never met A foe of mine, I can only bet A very close impersonal friend To my unknown needs he’s supposed to tend To rehabilitate me from what to what Maybe he’s a pure-bred … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Community, Competition, Constitution, Draft Registration, Environment, Failure, Freedom, government, History, Impersonal, Justice, Law, Military, Poems, President, Protest Poetry, Punishment
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POEM: Democracy – as seen on TV
Wherever I land In the electoral whirled Politicians ceremoniously execute The will of the people In doctored fashion Yet an other sort of capitol punishment Delegated to the coroner Turning voting off In a Pyrrhic victory So hollowed by those … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Community, Cynical, Democracy, Elections, Enemies, Humanity, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Punishment, Reactionary, Reality, Time, Truth, Voting
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POEM: Sex Before Marriage?
He in choired So you think people should have sex before marriage? My straight forward rejoined her: Hell, I think people should have sex before breakfast! This short poem is a playful response to the straight-laced attitudes of many religious … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Attitude, Catholic, Community, Conservative, Hell, Ironic, Mock, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Religion, Religious, Sex, Sexuality, Short Poems, Whimsical
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POEM: What Sup? — Owed to Michael Brown and Ferguson, MO
They come with walls of armor And arms, oh, the arms Ever prepared to do the riot thing Will their fear be matched By the fire in the bellies Of protesters Waving conflagrations Or hands bound Staring down such a … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Community, Crime, Demonstrators, Fear, Justice, Law, Law Enforcement, Meaning, Murder, Outrage, Police, Protesters, Racism, Rage, Security, Time
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POEM: As I Poor Myself
As I poor myself Out into the streets A pasture for the people At ease with just us Weather soon becoming A torrent of change Oar that which trickles our fancy A tributary to humanity That no’s know bounds And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Community, Courage, Experience, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Life, Money, Passion, Poor, Power, Rage, Rebellion, Status, Status Quo, Transcendent
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POEM: Never Wanton Too Leave
In the tree of life I take my leave Looking not To politicians, generals, celebrities, or philanthropists For salvation Re-lying not On triangulating hourly opinions In gluttonous cynicism That fuels no bodies everywhere But their own Leaning not On skulking … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Community, Courage, Cynicism, Death, Dehumanizing, Faith, Foolish, Grace, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Inane, Joy, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Military, Mind, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Sacred, Superficial, Time
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POEM: Owed to Racism – That Whole In Our Soul
Owed to Racism: That Whole In Our Soul Our life is A thin line between Loving hate And hope filled madness Dark mournings And over joy In this may hem together To suture self And community bound For wince they … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Change, Community, Denial, Experience, Hate, Heart, Hope, Job, Joy, Life, Luck, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Racism, skin in the game, Solidarity, Soul, Toledo, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Changing Kings
When I was a child I crapped in my pants Today I am a king in the world Now I make others crap in their pants This is the indigestible truth Of too much power That cannot be changed Even … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Change, Community, Conventional Wisdom, Corruption, Democracy, Egalitarian, Elite, Expediency, Faith, Fascism, Foolish, Humanity, Image, Lazy, Minority, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Privilege, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Selfish, Short Poems, Surprises, Truth, Violence, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: A Ghastly Alchemy
For just Some Dam Weepin’s permit I protect and serve Up my enemies Like Cold Turkey Shoot Only to rifle But growing ode In a ghastly alchemy Silver bullets turning to lead Down the wrong path Instantly poisoned Hearts and … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Common Good, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Democracy, Denial, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Guns, Human Rights, Ideals, Life, Loss, Moral, Morality, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rage, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, Selfish, Violence, Virtue, Work
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