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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
- POEM: Healing Fire
- POEM: Net Zeroed
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- POEM: Taking, Their Q
- POEM: King of the Hill
- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
- POEM: Wiled Fires
- POEM: Progress
- POEM: Fratricide
- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
- POEM: A Poet’s Currency
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Tag Archives: Justice
POEM: Brew Aha
In the mettle of this Brew aha Beside myself I took a stand In countering Such ponderous courting How civil this obedience Wear black And white lies Segregated Only spotted As if Sent out to posture Presumptuous in a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Argument, Civil Disobedience, Death, Heart, Hospitality, Justice, Life, Obedience, Oppression, Pi, Play, Poet, Present, Privilege, Racism, Rationalization, Shakespeare, Silence, Social Justice, Transcendent
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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: To Not Mirrorly Be
The powers that be Screw you Then you screw me I don’t blame you Do you blame me? Either weigh We don’t have To be that way An open secret For awe to see And not mirrorly be Everywhere I … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Counter-Cultural, Evolution, History, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Image, Journey, Justice, Life, Modern, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Present, Reactionary, Reality, Rules, Shakespeare, Society, Time, Women
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POEM: Meet Me Their
Meet me Wear the sky Kisses the ocean Where the day’s heat Meets the cool of eve Where a child’s cry Meets his mother’s loving ears And a full groan man Brought to his knees Now stands Before his new … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Future, Hope, Inspiration, Joy, Justice, Labor, Life, Love, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Police, Present, Social Justice, Soul, Toledo, Work
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POEM: What If Everybody Did That?
Such sophistry Firmly on the bench But What if Everybody did that Judging propriety Smudging property An intolerable act My conscience He decreed Must fall Into line With Kant Where every reason Reduced to rant It’s the leash they can … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Conscience, Crime, Danny Brown, Ethical, Injustice, Justice, Life, Logic, Love, Mock, Moral, Mourning, Muse, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prison, Propriety, Responsibility, Rhetoric, Risk, Sleep, Toledo
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POEM: Where The Win Blows
He axed me What are your demands Other than justice Or saving life? Claiming that We must shed light On just said Shady distinctions I mirrorly pronounced That the win blows And we no knot wear Such goest In this … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Change, Compromise, Courage, Democracy, Faith, Genius, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Ideals, Justice, Life, Mind, Occupy Wall Street, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Privilege, Solidarity, Soul, Wall Street, Wisdom
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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: 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: A Strange Gift From Smother Earth
I awoke Too the rumble Of a river of cars Getting the goods Being trucked over and over As fuming motorists And fuelish consumers Whirled wide Tank up With great import As their gauges reach emptily A diction Beyond words … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Crude, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Gift, Humanity, Insanity, Justice, Life, Lifestyle, Military, Mind, Moral, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poetry, Pollution, Silence, Success, Suicide, Sustainable
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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: 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: 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: 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: Impartiality
Judge Stamper was renown For his impartiality Still thinking Nothing of Preferring Stepping on others Rather than being stepped upon A justice so becoming A courting to a void Deputizing peons Siding with minute ordnances Backed up by deferential canons … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crime, Criminal Justice System, Evil, Experience, Generosity, Impersonal, Injustice, Justice, Legalism, Modern, Nazi, Objectivity, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prison, Punishment, Reality, Responsibility, Rich, Rules, Society, State, Success, Truth, War, War Crimes, Western Civilization
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POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, America, Ancient, Authority, Awe, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Change, Children, Community, Compassion, Consumerism, Conundrum, Counter-Cultural, Creation, Culture, Debt, Dehumanizing, Discrimination, Disease, Disenfranchised, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Equality, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Genius, God, government, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Income, Inequality, Intimacy, Jesus, Job, Jobs, Journey, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Living Wage, Love, Meaning, Money, Oppression, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, President, Privilege, Productivity, Prophet, Proverb, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rhetoric, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Scarcity, Science, Simplicity, Slavery, Society, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, Values, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Western Civilization, Willingness, Wisdom, Women, Work, Worldview, Worship
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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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