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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: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
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- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
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- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
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Tag Archives: Dream
POEM: The Miraculous Doubt Her
Due You believe In miracles Yes and know Awe or nothing Beyond your current Imagination And resounding may be This poem of hope and expansive imagination is intended to both stretch and comfort your heart and mind. There are wondrous … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anxiety, Awe, Curiosity, Dream, Dreams, Fear, God, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Willingness
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POEM: Keep Your Eye On The Ball
The red ball bounces Like a metronome But with less rhythm Over every lyric uncomposed Like a wrecking ball But less harmonious A juggernaut emblazoned In fire engine red But less melodious Like a no alarm fire But with less … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Control, Creativity, Culture, Dream, Foolish, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meaning, Mind, Modern, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Pop Culture, Power, Powers that be, Rationalization, Risk, Security, Torture, Western Civilization
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POEM: Dream Catcher
A daze work Over Come Bye sleep Sow few dream catchers Sow many dreams And that’s the catch This poem is about work, vocation, passion, and burnout. This poem is mournful in that so many dreams go unrealized, uncaught. This … Continue reading
Obama: I Am The Bomb
As the world careens toward the increasingly surreal, we now officially live in a world where one Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama, has bombed another Nobel Prize winner, Doctors Without Borders. I nominate Barack Obama as the worst Nobel … Continue reading
POEM: For Awe That Has Been Urned
In her dreams She is wanting To be moved By more than Slumber too slumber Mirrorly to a wake Daze unending With that annoying buzz Thirst thing in the mourning The pique of the day The latest snooze A stay … 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: Halving No Interest
Wile a capital idea to sum I halve no interest In how you make a living Rather That which Makes you Come alive I would dare say that most of life lost is in the chasm between making a living … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, America, Art, Conundrum, Creation, Dream, Environment, Evolution, Experience, Food, Haiti, Health Care, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Liberal, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, Truth, Violence
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POEM: A Musing Co-Mission — Nein Poems! Owed to Know One
This is nine separate poems comprising one poem, each and all on the theme of the muse mercilessly striking in the middle of the night with irrepressible inspiration from God knows where. God bid me Higher than I Was willing … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Art, Awe, Busyness, Dream, Dreams, God, Inspiration, Mourning, Muse, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Resistance, Silence, Time, Work
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POEM: Constipated Destiny
He knew knot Exactly where He was going As fate would have it Seized by easy convictions Big house Auto, pilot And every won else’s Re-guard Of one self full Filled Buy in And sell out In humanity A sure … Continue reading
POEM: Nevermore Contrived
In the distant future But not too distant Man fashions A machine That does every thing For us For the trees Imperceptible To awe but sum Living in passed tense Eternal re-pose Holding sway In make believe lives And unexamined … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Busyness, Celebrity, Coercion, Courage, Dream, Dreams, Future, Heart, Hope, Identity, Intimacy, Life, Market, Play, Power, Reality, Religion, Sacrifice, Security, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Technology, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Rare Prayer
I found myself In rare prayer A genus reserved for Mother’s ilk Only doing what Kin be done In udder neglect Of that long a go Cached in Fore more sensible weighs Now wholly saved For foxholes The mass Of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Awe, Compromise, Creation, Dream, Dreams, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Future, God, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Hope, Hubris, Insecurities, Journey, Lazy, Life, Loss, Meaning, Mind, Mourning, Mystic, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Reality, Religion, Soul, Spiritual, Tar Sands, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: Capitalism Perfected
Capitalism perfected Wear every won Cells their soul And when Every body No’s that They have A fare price For dreams fabricated And nightmares awoken This poem’s title has a misleading title which implies that capitalism can be perfected. The twist … Continue reading
POEM: There Is Something About Dusk
There is something about dusk A gentle luminosity Embracing the culmination Of a day’s chores Twilight invites any weariness Into a slow motion space Where tomorrow is unkneaded That in-between place Where light lingers And shadows soften As a sentient … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Dream, Dreams, Future, Puns, Sleep, Soul, Toledo
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POEM: In Jesting Another Triple Crown
America’s quest for monarchy Failed again A triple crown thwarted The quest for total domination Foundering Another cracker jack faux A for-see-able sir prize Californian gold transmuted Into chrome Bronzed A tanned hide Soon forgotten A hoarse race A poorer … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Business, Celebrity, Competition, Consciousness, Cooperation, Domination, Dream, Egalitarian, Elite, Enemies, Exceptionalism, Experience, Hope, Life, Love, Morality, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Rich, Sports, Vulnerability
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POEM: Just Desserts
I had a dream Where we lived In a world Where everyone got What they deserved I woke up And was pleased To recollect We receive More than we deserve This short poem is about grace. In more tight-fisted moments, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Consciousness, Dream, Evil, Experience, Fear, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Ironic, Jesus, Justice, Life, Moral, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Prophet, Punishment, Reality, Short Poems
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POEM: A Befitting Size, That Matters
Starring on the big screen Used to dominate young dreams Super-sizing them for mass consumption Today, celluloid immortality miniaturizes So five minutes ago Small screens test us As we flail miserably In a feudal limbo ‘Tween Puffed up images Flickering … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Balance, Celebrity, Consumption, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Efficiency, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Image, Impersonal, Institutions, Media, Mind, Mourning, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Relationships, Status, Technology, Temptation, Time, Wealth, Western Civilization, Worship
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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: More Than, a Nester — Owed to Seán Nestor, in honor of his 29th birthday
More Than, a Nester Owed to Seán Nestor in honor of his 29th birthday In the beginning There was a good egg In compassed By a paltry brood A restless nativity And ageless questions Of what thirst And what last … Continue reading
POEM: Enlightening Reflection
I looked into his eyes And I could see the devil More lightly peering It was eye A most enlightening reflection Seeing double This short poem hopes to shed some light on the concept of psychological projection. Projection strikes me … Continue reading
Posted in News, Uncategorized
Tagged Accountability, Attitude, Awareness, Balance, Change, Character, Choices, Consciousness, Control, Denial, Dream, Dreams, Environment, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Gift, Heart, Hope, Human Nature, Humanity, Insanity, Joy, Lazy, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Patience, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Projection, Psychology, Reality, Responsibility, Rich, Self-Awareness, Short Poems, State, Status, Status Quo, Victim Blaming, Wisdom, Work
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