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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 Good, The Bad, and the Ugh-ly
- POEM: What Does The Security State?
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- POEM: Don’t Look Up, Sunny
- POEM: Yo Yo, Down With the Stock Market
- POEM: It Rains On
- POEM: A Crumb-y Life
- POEM: Knot a Frayed
- POEM: Poetry Offensive
- POEM: The End of the Line
- POEM: Republic Canned
- POEM: Doctor Doo Little’s Pushme-Pullyou
- POEM: The Braking of the Whirled
- POEM: Tyrant Spring
- POEM: Free Judgment Zone Out
- POEM: Achilles’ Heel
- POEM: The Ugly American
- POEM: Bully Silence
- POEM: God’s Will?
- POEM: Razing Up the Unbelievable
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- POEM: The Odds Rising
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Tag Archives: Life
POEM: Know Vacancy — Owed To Co-Dependency
Are you so-so special More than a little off Renting that hallowed space Inn one’s head To fiend and faux like For what Mounts to ears A-pathetic brood Checking in weigh too often Getting your pique of the litter Wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Business, Chaos, Codependnecy, Control, Crazy, Denial, Evil, Fear, God, Grace, Hope, Intimacy, Life, Love, Normal, Play, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Resentment, Risk, Soul
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POEM: Shame Old Story
A little bit Of shame Goes along Weigh Too much With blinders Knot visible In a sense Lost To over looking As awe full as life is This poem is about the overabundance of shame, a tail as owed as … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Blessing, Compassion, Control, Evil, Faith, Inspiration, Integrity, Lazy, Life, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Psychology, Punishment, Religion, Soul, Time, Work
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POEM: Halving No Interest
Wile a capital idea to sum I halve no interest In how you make a living Rather That which Makes you Come alive I would dare say that most of life lost is in the chasm between making a living … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, America, Art, Conundrum, Creation, Dream, Environment, Evolution, Experience, Food, Haiti, Health Care, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Liberal, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, Truth, Violence
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POEM: Unoriginal Sin
Thirst thing in the mourning Adam collided with Adam Agin and agin As taken aback As it was a hit Necessitating an equal Yet opposite reaction Recoiling for time in memorial Chastening to watch As if One clock to rule … Continue reading
POEM: Annoys Pollution
Every wear but hear Beeping phones And nobody at home Impossible to a tone Even with wringing personally With poor timing Watching volumes A little too lewd Mindless won And awe the artless With every bell and whistle Ears unplugged … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Art, Awe, Busyness, Civil Disobedience, Employment, Freedom, Funny, Inane, Life, Logic, Mind, Mindfulness, Modern, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pollution, Poor, Progress, Religion, Responsibility, Silence, Spiritual, Western Civilization, Zen
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POEM: Unfare
Weighter Truth be tolled Whoever’s pain the bill I’d like a reseat At the table This poem addresses the truism that life is not fair. I have spent most of my life and part of most days working to address … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Citizens, Consumption, Creation, Disenfranchised, Domination, Economic, Equality, Female, Gratitude, Humanity, Justice, LGBT, Life, Patriarchy, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Present, Privilege, Respect, Short Poems, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Society, Solidarity, Truth, Work
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POEM: The Short End of The Shtick
The earth quaked Beneath the CEO As he re-torted It’s no bodies fault In a sense Coming upon The prophets of owed Raking over That thin lyin’ Between purveyor and consumer I’m just Doing my job And it’s knot My … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Faith, Helplessness, Humanity, Job, Life, Poems, Poetry, Present, Responsibility, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Universe
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POEM: Opportunity Accost
Having arrived Delivered by a private message The bad knews Out of the weigh Surrounded Only Good news ahead Able to attack On any affront This poem is based on an old joke, that goes something like this: The courier … Continue reading
POEM: Inspiring Life Itself
Hear I am My life Unmeasured By awe but Smiles And ours alone A forum of love Only known by agape Sometimes taken as dope And every sow often Be held as a parent Breathlessness Be gotten heir Inspiring life … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Creation, Dancing, Experience, Gratitude, Humanity, Life, Love, Market, Nature, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Skepticism
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POEM: Constipated Destiny
He knew knot Exactly where He was going As fate would have it Seized by easy convictions Big house Auto, pilot And every won else’s Re-guard Of one self full Filled Buy in And sell out In humanity A sure … Continue reading
POEM: Fully Human When Wholly Divine
From wear You ask Came quiet A storm At the end Of won’s rope The blest piece Ever no’ing still Falling in too A death too small to handle A life too big to grasp Laughing at what was wince … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Experience, God, Life, Love, Poems, Poetry, Religious, Spiritual
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POEM: Awe The Deference In The Whirled
He said She said You seem full of yourself Or full of something As I would Decidedly be Rather mistaken As too much for sum Than sow scarcely perceived In convenient lacking A peace meal Leaving hungry Or crocodile tears … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Change, Children, Control, Conventional Wisdom, Creativity, Culture, Curiosity, Environment, Experience, Freedom, God, Heart, Hope, Humility, Life, Mind, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rules, Soul, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Wisdom
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POEM: More of the Sane
Going through life Various docks said You are just Going through a phrase And heeling Wood be Yores soon Enough Finally cured Of awe That is Green With envy Of what might Passably be More of the sane This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Creation, Envy, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Gift, God, Image, Insanity, Life, Love, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Rage, Recycling, Respect, Risk, Science, Security, Status, Status Quo, Truth, Willingness, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Megabus Late
The loco bus Was barely running Trafficking in creep after creep At Lake & Michigan It was sink or swim Facing too soon departed To be won or lost By foot Right, left, right, left, right, left, right Miraculously walking … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Future, God, John Lennon, Life, Poor, Serendipity, Surprises, Toledo
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POEM: God’s Perish
I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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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: Wee Lives
Wee live In a whirled Determined To be Or not to be Making head weigh At an impassable gait In effable hustle A jeer of our peers That hurry can knock us down Or give momentary flights Holding out that … Continue reading