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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: Fear
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: 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: Sew Your Frayed
Fear takes you Too the toil it For those privy to life If you have years, listen Courage makes you What sow ever the seasoning Spring dew Or winter flakes You knead not be Scared for life Weather an incite … Continue reading
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: For Shadowing a Life
She had saved So much time and money Only leaving Too much too due A well honed busyness Yielding the best of the bust A treasured chest In hard times aplenty Never the less Predictably taking A rugged helm In … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, America, Busyness, Choices, Cynical, Death, Defense, Denial, Evil, Family, Fear, Freedom, Gandhi, Harmony, Hate, Human Nature, Humanist, Humanity, Image, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Labor, Life, Logic, Love, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possessions, Present, Proverb, State, Success, Time, Transcendent, Trust, Universe, Vocation, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Destiny Mending
Weave had to live In the shadow Of our looming Self-destruction It’s time To take A strand Enough All ready As we hit the concrete Beyond erudite Threads on facebook Virtually no matter How tightly woven Betwixt loose yarns spun … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, Change, Consumerism, Democracy, Denial, facebook, Fear, Hope, Humanity, Job, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Lifestyle, Money, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Reality, Soul, Technology, Time, War, Wisdom, Work, zombie
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POEM: Mental Health Café
In the mental health café Most of us just order the usual The anxiety du jour A small mixed salad of worries With a little resentment on the side For many, anxiety is the norm. Anxiety seems to propel life … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Anxiety, Authority, Conundrum, Existential, Fear, God, Greed, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Resentment, Sartre, Selfish, Short Poems, State
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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: Know Knead to Brink
I live at the fringes At the boundary of what is and what could be Sow playful a lure At the threshold of what might not be and what should be Seriously brewed At the edge of the abyss I … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, Anxiety, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Chaos, Community, Control, Courage, Creation, Enemies, Experience, Facts, Fear, Gandhi, God, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Life, Love, Meaning, Moral, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Punishment, Reality, Rules, Sociopathy, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent
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POEM: Inexplicably Wonderful
The gift of life Is quite inexplicably wonderful But fear not Teams of scientists Are working Around the clock To redress this problem Skepticism has its limits. In practice, I am a skeptic of much skepticism. Life is wonderful. The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynical, Cynicism, Disease, Fear, Gift, Gratitude, Heaven, Irony, Life, Meaning, Militant, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Religion, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Time, Work
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POEM: Compassion Hoard
I may not have bread And I can afford justice My feet may be bare And still I have wings unseen A fly on the wall Reflecting on wear thou art I cons A mass Pining for eternity I see … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Control, Dream, Dreams, Experience, Faith, Fear, Food, Future, Generosity, God, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Injustice, Ironic, Irony, Journey, Joy, Justice, Love, Meaning, Mercy, Mind, Mystery, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Power, Present, Prison, Religion, Religious, Rich, Sacred, Silence, Songs, Status, Success, Time, Wealth
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POEM: Less Than Eternal Question
The Rev. Medley Had risen To the highest position He would ever It was only down from there An awe too common Occupational hazard Of moderate irony And accumulating lessens Just falling short Of making one cross Facing that less … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Buddhist, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Elite, Faith, Fear, God, Irony, Jesus, Joke, leadership, Life, Living Simply, Living Wage, Materialism, Meaning, Meditation, Modern, Murder, Nature, Power, Questions, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, Truth, Wealth, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: State of the Union – Barack Obama
The State of the Union In come in equality Barack Hussein Obama Raising a question Of will he deliver His second state Of the union Different than the first Shot from Chicagoland Now addressing From 1600 sumpin’ Pennsylvania Avenue A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Community, Economic, Education, Equality, Experience, Family, Fear, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Identity, Income, Inequality, Intellect, Irony, Joy, Law, Lawyer, Lazy, Life, Minority, Money, Navy, Obama, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Present, President, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Rhetoric, Science, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Status, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, War
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POEM: Fearmongers
Fearmongers Fear-mongers rein upon US And weave so much dread Of what dismay due We simply back into A dark future Like bit players In a bad horror film Where more than budgets are slashed And we feign surprise This … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged budgets, Courage, Experience, Fear, Future, Helplessness, Image, Logic, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Reality, Short Poems, Society, Surprises, Sustainable
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POEM: Each Day a Work of Heart
For every won of us Each day Is a work of heart Canvassing inexhaustible possibilities Of epic themes Momentary epiphanies And daily grooves Imploring colors Exploring textures Mating with perfect light Not mirrorly framed Buy the ornate Or threw making … Continue reading