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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: Awe is Not Lost
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- POEM: I a Door
- POEM: Arose
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Tag Archives: Experience
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: 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: The Awe Might He Acorn
The acorns fall Like reign From above As the mighty yoke is broken Flailing to grasp the gravity of the situation Each won A tiny oak Tolled by nature If only Such nuts Can hold there ground And a void … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Art, Awe, Experience, Fear, Future, Hope, Job, Joke, Life, Meaning, Muse, Nature, Normal, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Probability, Scarcity, Toledo
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POEM: Show Down With That
A mid-afternoon cloud drifts along Down below, high noon stretches into its fourth hour Brazen vapors pining to be seen A vain tease its silver linings To dormant soles never looking up Know glorious rays today! As nature out laud … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Happiness, Heaven, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Time, Universe, Work
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POEM: Cautionary Tail
Shadow pays homage to light In a place beyond compare And as a cautionary tail May you not be doggedly wagged This short poem is a tip of the hat to the Taoist idea of complimentariness or yin-yang, such as … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Cautionary Tale, Enlightenment, Evil, Experience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Tao
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POEM: Dead Precedents
The whirled is full of dollereds Strewing up our future With dead precedents And we no where Greed takes us This short poem addresses the persistence of greed, even though its poor outcomes are well documented and embedded in human … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Choices, Compassion, Curiosity, Denial, Existential, Experience, Facts, Future, Greed, Harmony, Hope, Humanity, Journey, Joy, Life, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Reality, Selfish, Short Poems, Temptation
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POEM: A Full Life
Charlie’s life was full Every available space laden to wrest His productivity well suited To his interests Taxidermy and robotics This short poem offers a challenge to what it means to have a full life in modern Western civilization, where … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Anxiety, Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Capitalism, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Experience, God, Hope, Image, Inane, Job, Labor, Life, Modern, Nature, Perspective, Productivity, Questioning, Revolution, Revolutionary, Silence, Suffering, Tao, Vocation, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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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: Quiet the View
Hope Was Present On the horizon South East West North into the fabric of existence Be not afraid Weather Looking up Looking down Such peek experiences Are awe ways just Round the corner I haven’t published a poem in a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Faith, Family, Fear, God, Hope, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Life, Love, Mind, Mom, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Present, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Big Bang Burrito®
Under a first rate inquisition I mussed a test I don’t know If God Can make A bean burrito so big That God can’t Eat it Such a peerless quest in May be Scorn points with sum To be little … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Authority, Curiosity, Employment, Experience, God, Image, Jewish, Joke, Mind, Mock, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Questions, Religion, Spiritual, Spirituality, Stupid, Time, Universe
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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: Suffering Artists
I heard that Artists are supposed to suffer For their work No matter how hard Beaten Their head against a wall So trying I have failed Miserably Only finding my work Adore I am through And not Well Done I … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Art, Control, Detachment, Experience, God, Joy, Justice, Lazy, Life, Living Simply, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Social Justice, Suffering, Values, Work
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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: 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: God Gets a Bad Wrap
God gets a bad wrap As do men Gloom Over Rite and wrong Babies borne of bathwater Throne buy themselves Like clay Giving rise To the pitter potter of little feats And inconceivable images Speaking out laud In a class … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Authority, Awe, Blessed, Character, Curiosity, Denial, Einstein, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Faith, God, Grace, Guns, Hubris, Humanity, Impersonal, Intellect, Ironic, Justice, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Mystical, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Pride, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Rich, Silence, Simplicity, Skepticism, Spiritual, State, Transcendence, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: Not The Usual Joke
A Hindu A Muslim A Christian And a Jew Walk into a bar And the bartender says Greetings, Mr. Gandhi Let me guess You don’t want “the usual” This short poem takes the format of a common joke. However, one … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Albert Schweitzer, Buddhism, Buddhist, Change, Christian, Compassion, Enlightenment, Experience, Freedom, Funny, Gandhi, God, Heart, Hindu, History, Joke, Life, Logic, Love, Muslim, Mystic, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Psychology, Religion, Religious, Short Poems, Slavery, Soul, Theology, Time, Transcendence, Truth, Universe, Violence
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POEM: Arousing Spirit
She had a profoundly rousing spirit Unfortunately, he did not believe in spirits And lack of belief Will only Carry you so far I like this short poem because it plays with the notions of spirit and disbelief. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, Courage, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Literacy, Logic, Love, Materialism, Materialist, Modern, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Randomness, Reality, Religious, Security, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Skepticism, Society, Spiritual, Time, Trust, Worldview
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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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