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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 Purpose of Life
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- POEM: An Other – Language
- POEM: Suicidal?
- POEM: Author Author
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- POEM: A Veritable Zoo
- POEM: That Infinite See Waving
- POEM: Realty Pushing Back
- POEM: Trafficking
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- POEM: Normal Eyes
- POEM: Efficient Love
- POEM: To Arms
- POEM: The Problem with Violence
- POEM: In Sighting a Right
- POEM: I’d Give My Write Arm for the Sound of You
- POEM: Awe is Not Lost
- POEM: Unentitle Fight
- POEM: I a Door
- POEM: Arose
- POEM: Fallen Reign
- POEM: The Future, The Passed
- POEM: Your Fired
- POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
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Tag Archives: Experience
POEM: A Thoreau Reading — Owed To Awe That Sucks
Some say That he sucked The marrow from life And resin ate Down to my bones Blood brothers In what is Not a race To judge knot In won slice of life Or as-certain fine truth From lowly metaphor And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Facts, Life, Meaning, Moral, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Thoreau, Truth
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POEM: Gimps of Heaven
To the skies lifted The lairs of heaven unfold In speechless beauty That would deify description My eyes and hands Razed freely Embracing awe That heaven was packing In mirror seconds To be Thanking That God Of the quick And … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Experience, God, Grace, Gratitude, Heaven, Image, Life, Poems, Poetry, Present, Soul
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POEM: The World’s Shortest Meditation
Exhale Meditate on Mother Nature Asking only What have you done for me lately? Meditation is difficult. Meditation is exponentially more difficult for each additional minute attempted. The chattering monkeys of the mind interrupt accessing the sacred silence offered by … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Control, Creation, Experience, God, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meditation, Mind, mother nature, Mystery, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Sacred, Short Poems, Silence, Skepticism, Society, Status, Status Quo
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POEM: A Re-View of a Plunk Rock Band, Tossing Watery Graves
I want it awe Yet what do you no What measures Must we take From emanate ripples He helled the earth in his hand Of what intimated Of know consequence A dinky mount To sky ward heavin’ Hoping only to … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Attitude, Awe, Blessed, Change, Cognitive Dissonance, Courage, Disenfranchised, Dogma, Empathy, Environmental, Experience, Freedom, Grace, Heart, Hell, Hope, Idealism, Intellect, Justice, Learning, Liberal, Life, Meaning, Nature, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Present, Privilege, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Rules, Scientific Reductionism, Social Justice, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Paying In Attention – Owed To Mind Fullness
I under stand You are on Some kind of in Stall meant plan As long As you still Pay attention In do time I’ll pay for such in deference Hopefully not the final time Having been Pre-disposed In the passed … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Consciousness, Disease, Empathy, Evil, Evolution, Experience, History, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Kindness, Life, Love, Luck, Mind, Mindfulness, Poems, Political, Power, Present, Pride, Privilege, Projection, Proverb, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Sacred, Science, Self-Awareness, Success, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, Worldview
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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: Car Less
One moment I have a car The next moment I don’t The universe conspires To nourish my feral body and sole Not with the twisted steal of civilization But as a carrot In a field of vision Meting its purpose … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Experience, God, Grace, Inspiration, Life, Mother Earth, Ode, Paradoxes, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Time, Universe
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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POEM: Not Buying Heaven or Hell
Being not tempted Buy heaven or hell I yearn my keep From the love unearth I like epic themes, such as heaven and hell. Nonetheless, I find the carrot of heaven or the stick of hell to be a distraction … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynical, Death, Evolution, Experience, Family, God, Grace, Heaven, Hell, Human Race, Humanity, Imagination, Intellect, Life, Love, Modern, Murder, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Redemption, Short Poems
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POEM: Metings, I’d Rather Do Without
I listen To that which speaks A bigger In feeleds of dreams Wanting more Then words Aloft from fences Of unsatisfying breadth And stealy calculation Dis passionate mines As inevitable ballbusters Descending from bona fide guise Even handed lines Powerless … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Bullshit, Change, Control, Dreams, Experience, Future, Healing, Heart, Ideology, Intellect, Justice, Life, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Time, Truth
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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self
In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Change, Denial, Events, Experience, Fear, Gandhi, God, Hate, Heart, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Love, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, Psychology, Reactionary, Reality, Rebellion, Resistance, Rich, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Success, Temptation, Time, Transcendent, Violence, Voting
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POEM: In What Seams Faultless
At certain moments I am left In a world Beyond That which is My own Speechless In what seams faultless Only to be Hereafter Unleashed After awe Unforked tongue Speaking freely To anyone who can Here Experiencing such presence Unfrayed … Continue reading
POEM: Nothing New Under The Sun
There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Disease, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Fear, Foolish, Freedom, Generosity, God, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Heart, Humanity, Job, Liberal, Life, Market, Meaning, Money, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Religion, Respect, Scarcity, Security, Silence, Sleep, Status, Suffering, Worldview
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POEM: Be Riffed of Life
He said “The world is inert.” I said “You mean Dead?” He re-plied That it is Assure thing Beyond doubt I queeried “On your incite Or the out?” By all means Necessary As you must And arbitrary mold No higher … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, Denial, Evolution, Experience, Failure, Life, Materialist, Mourning, Nature, Perspective, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Projection, Subjectivity, Surreal, Universe
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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: Ebola US Over
Ebola US over When fear metes science When we no what too due Still, rabidly executing our will As wee act in sanity Cheap as rationed rationality Upscale absurdity As some fret butler Frankly red-faced, not giving a damn As … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, America, Conundrum, Courage, Culture, Disease, Enemies, Environment, Experience, Fear, Hope, Literacy, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Present, Prevention, Public Health, Reality, Risk, Science, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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