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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: A Veritable Zoo
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- POEM: Efficient Love
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- POEM: The Problem with Violence
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- 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
- POEM: Bred of Life
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Tag Archives: Hope
POEM: The Iconoclassism of Godliness
She was in A class by her self Staring at her teacher In a too room school hows By two mirror subjects taut Assure as three Bound by know Student lones Only that body Of know ledge From the school … Continue reading
POEM: The Largesse Whole
Was he lacking Horse sense Eschewing Just A little bit Off The grid Frayed of being Triangulate To sum part he Prone to awe That is More than Life familiar Tripping unplugged Real he Into The largesse whole That you … Continue reading
POEM: Unannunciated Power
Power came to my home for dinner Well, not actually my home, rather my house Not in person, but through a representative Witch some defer to as a medium That would be TV In accuracy, as sum political add All … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, government, Hope, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Voters, Work
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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: 24/7 on I-75 — Owed To Trafficking Noise
24/7 on I-75 Only herd In the mourning Quiet scarce With the engines of freedom Racing vicious cycles In know way asking, “who cars?” As you whirr The buzz of the high way The humdrum of civilization The muffled rumble … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Capitalism, Consumerism, Freedom, God, Hope, Life, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Short Poems, Silence
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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: Peppered With Violence
Bland and tasteless souls Often pepper with violence The salt of the earth Writing a vicious cycle In rehashed seasonings Winners of discontent The Fall’s harvest Yet even sow Hope springing eternal And summers of love As have know choice … Continue reading
POEM: Until Hell Frees Us
Be very frayed Terrorism comes From know where Deep in the recesses Of kindergarten bullying Capital vocations And martial lawlessness Awe rapped up in won’s highest I deal Those unspeakable prophets In security Detained indefinitely Until hell frees us Ever … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Accountability, Awe, Children, Culture, Death, Evil, Fear, God, Hell, History, Hope, Hypocritical, Idioms, Injustice, Jesus, Justice, Life, Logic, Militarism, Moral, Necessary Evil, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Obedience, Oppression, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Privilege, Reality, Rich, Sacrifice, Security, State, Terrorism, Time, Violence, War, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: A Brother Lying
Prey fore the dead In the name of Jesus In resurrection of those soully asleep Getting a phallus rise Out of Christianity That is, US More sow then radical Islam In violate fundamental lists Dissembling faith, hope, and love As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Christian, Christianity, Competition, Death, Democracy, Domination, Faith, Family, God, Grace, Heart, Hope, Image, Islam, Jesus, Justice, Lazy, Life, Love, Meaning, Militarism, Military, Moral, Muslim, Muslims, Nationalism, Nature, Pacifism, Patriotism, People of The Book, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Racism, Radical, Religion, Religious, Resurrection, Reverence, Sacred, Sacrifice, State, Terrorism, Violence, War, Worldview
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POEM: A World Without Boarders
Mother earth bids us What rend must we pay For such fear in dwelling In apprehending tenets In discriminating borne Giving no quarter To mother and child And presumed fodder Taking the place Of wear every won re-sides Drawing lyin’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Children, Common Good, Consciousness, Death, Fear, Healing, Hope, Humanity, Illegal, Lazy, Life, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Racism, Rhetoric, Security, State, Stewardship, War, Xenophobia
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POEM: To The See Tossing
Even As a serious looker She wore a millstone Round her neck Never experiencing a vocation Long enough Too go To the see tossing This is a Monday mourning poem for awe of you wage slaves. It is far too … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, Awe, Bible, Business, Death, Death Penalty, Dream, Dreams, God, Hell, Hope, Income, Job, Life, Mourning, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Short Poems, Vocation, Work
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POEM: Spring Has Sprung
Winter is passed And still What is dung is dung Yet in concert with nature Sow becoming A sublime movement From the bowels of Mother Earth And her thirst borne sun Spring has sprung From her fertile eyes Perfectly teeming … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Environment, Hope, Humanity, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Short Poems, Social Movements, Soul
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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: 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: Zombie Apocalypse — Carry On
In habiting That thin lyin’ Between living and undead Pray and prey Plodding for survival so chaste Eerie reverence For awe virtually unmoving They’ve got You’re numb-er Too many to re-pulse To take account of De-sending from cubicles and proto-calls … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Apocalypse, Art, Awe, Culture, Existential, Fear, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Genius, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Incarnation, Institutions, Life, Nature, Power, Powers that be, Present, Progress, Projection, Reverence, Soul, Suffering, Surreal, Work, zombie
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POEM: The Yeast Of These
Wile there is much bred Daily preyed for Ample for awe concerned That seemingly still Fomenting swell times A mist repleting agin and agin In dubitable motifs Giving ascent to That for most ingredient A telling signature of homme The … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Conventional Wisdom, Crime, Disenfranchised, Elite, Faith, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Injustice, Joy, Justice, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Normal, Pacifism, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Police, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Privilege, Rage, Reality, Resistance, Respect, Revolution, Sex, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Solidarity, State, Status, Status Quo, Success, Suffering, Truth, Violence, War, Wisdom
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POEM: To Be, Sow Fly
Could it possibly be A cliff hangar She jumped In what felt Like A free fall The feint of art Closing their eyes Thinking this only is For the birds Or perhaps angels Or butterflies borne by the wind For … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Courage, Dreams, Heart, Hope, Life, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Soul
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POEM: Love Making
I was mistaken All those years Those sweetest ours Thinking I was making love When in truth Love was making me This love poem, as most of my poems, can be read several ways. Of course, the simplest reading is … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Community, Courage, God, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Life, Love, Love Poems, Mind, Mystery, Patience, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Reality, Relationships, Romantic, Spiritual, Truth, Work
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POEM: Open Adore
Awe That knocks Me too My knees Shaking Hands Earth below Heaven above In articulate silence And still Hear I am Awesomeness is often met through silence and with silence. There is a power greater than words dare speak. Experiencing … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Short Poems, Silence
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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