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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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Tag Archives: Cynicism
POEM: It Turns Out That Hope Is
Hope is as persistent as cynicism — even more sow. It Turns Out That Hope Is Hope turned out To be a stale mate Or sow he helled Hope could not breach His impenetrable armor of cynicism Fretting over awe … Continue reading
POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”
Community organizing can be difficult and thankless. I am grateful for those who do such work. Thanks! Still, at times, won’s work can become a bearin’ place, yielding cynicism and skepticism, even of those who appreciate you. Tossing aside potential … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cautionary Tale, Community, Cynicism, Generosity, Gratitude, Love, Quotes, Skepticism, Work
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POEM: Simply Living
This poem regarding simple living and simply living is about simply valuing people over things. Such an anti-consumerist lifestyle recognizes that increasing materialism edges out, and often runs roughshod over, our shared humanity. May we live ever aware and valuing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Capitalism, Consumerism, Cynicism, Greed, Humanity, Lifestyle, Materialism
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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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POEM: Left To His Own Devices
Left to his own Devices He was apped to cynicism And awe of the most virtual of realities Things looking up People looking down This poem touches upon one of my pet peeves: electronic devices preempting direct human contact and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Technology
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POEM: That Arguable Grip
He argued Fore cynicism Farced to choose between What’s left What is right And he one handily With won hand tied behind his back Soundly Like the slow clap With the only hope That he is not contagious And that … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynicism, Dreams, Helplessness, Hope, Joy, Normal, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Gordian Knot — Owed To Mother Hope
Reality can be a mother Halving given Cynicism wide berth Big brother Too hope A mist Crying incessantly And the crapping of won’s pants Entrapped Flanked by sterility and fertility Fenced buy utility and futility Until something Something all inspiring … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Alienation, Argument, Awe, Big Brother, Cynicism, Death, Future, Gordian knot, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Play, Poet, Present, Reality, Sartre, Solidarity, Truth
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POEM: Lost And Found
Sum wear Long the weigh Countless souls Lost Their sense of humor Only too end up Way to Sirius Occupying that eternal box Under the counter Only willing To pass it long To whom sow ever Claims it for their … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Cynicism, Experience, Freedom, Funny, Hope, Humor, Joy, Life, Poetry, Reality, Rich, Short Poems, Suffering, Surreal, Time, Trust
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ACTIVIST POEM: With Eyes Fixed — Owed To Shannon Frye
She was tired Enough Fore sentries of human bondage Still Those precious wons With eyes fixed On the prize Forever remanding us Stay qualm And carry on This poem was inspired by Shannon Frye’s blazing commentary that I recently included in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Dream, Heart, Hope, Inspiration, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: As Far As One Kin See
As far as one kin see It is a sin to crush some one’s body And infinitely greater sow to crush some one’s spirit In sum vain temped too raze awe questions Can God A-bridge Between infinitude and soully you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Dreams, Enlightenment, Evolution, God, Helplessness, Hope, Humanity, Justice, Love, Ode, Questions, Soul, Violence, Work
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THIRD PARTY POEM: A Door Number Three
A Door Number Three Caught a mist The cross Fire Between partisan streams Shooting for number won Too put out In A narrow mined field Wear white is anti-black And black is nonwhite So fanatical about your stripes Yet no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Business, Celebrity, Choices, Citizens, Control, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Dreams, Elite, Exceptionalism, Failure, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, leadership, National, Oligarchy, Partisan, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Surreal, Sustainable, Third Party, Time, Wealth, Worship
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Comedian Jesus: Any TRUMP? NO, Go Fish, I’m Not Playing That Game
This Comedian Jesus cartoon combines the contemporary unwanted news cycle of Donald Trump with the timeless question of: Precisely what game are you playing? This Comedian Jesus cartoon is an inspired hybrid of a pun on “Trump,” and my poem, … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged America, Cartoon, Change, Courage, Cynicism, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Elite, Equality, Exceptionalism, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, Humanity, Jesus, Play, Politics, Privilege, Propaganda, Reality, Respect, Solidarity, Time, timeless question, Transcendent, Truth, Values
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POEM: A Constipated Citizenry
Not so deep Within the body politic A constipated citizenry Yearns to be free Crying out In a full groan democracy Mourning the dearth of moral fiber Humanity squat An abject lessen Lo expectations As number too Clinging to far-fetched … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Cynicism, Democracy, Donald Trump, Freedom, government, Hillary Clinton, History, Humanity, Irony, Modern, Moral, Mourning, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power
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POEM: A Truth Foul
If you should believe The hole truth And nothing A butt the truth You may well be Full if it Perfectly primed For letting go Unable to be taken Any more By a singular won Given By an other This … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Attitude, Awe, Cynicism, Experience, Hope, Hubris, Humility, Ideology, Intimacy, Life, Moral, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Responsibility, Trust, Truth, Universe, Vulnerability
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POEM: Life As A Breeze
Life peers to me As a gentle breeze With fragrant harmonies In the tenderest victories Know longer bought a bout by yielding hope Prospecting in rock Dead set, vane certainties Or coarse inclinations While a sole breath moves through me … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Character, Cynical, Cynicism, Generosity, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Skepticism, Success, Time, Willingness
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POEM: Going, Going, Gone
Scores of politicians Going for green As peddlers of pabulum Powered buy vicious cycles Going for blue As admirals of addled ad mirers Sailing cynicism Going for red As wore, wore, wore Posing as knew Gone adieu this Until nothing … Continue reading
POEM: For Awe Inclusive Crews
In this backwards god-eat-god world In the phase of gratuitous violins Love surpasses all of the prose In the ultimate hatch it job Super seeding awe conceptions Overrunning all of its boarders Teeming with those borne agin Depraving those of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Consumerism, Culture, Cynicism, God, Hell, Job, Life, Love, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Transcendent, Violence
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POEM: The Rein of Hope
A tsunami of hope is coming Are you preparing such a weigh? Will you be caught looking Through shot glasses Only to be decked out with eyedroppers For blood shot eyes, those cynical vanes Ill quipped to see arose As … Continue reading
POEM: How Does It Awe End?
Sow ponderous are wee The nature of God And God of nature Never two be the same As one Awe weighs Whichever becoming Created in won mine Weather mirror mortals Or I am parish-able being A quest in during Too … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Awe, Character, Cynicism, Death, Dogma, Experience, God, Ideology, Life, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Religion, Sacred, Skepticism, Spiritual
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