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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: Poetry
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: Lamenting Violins
Wince agin Their is a terror In the fabric of our lies Buy and buy An other A tact Against our weigh of life As if Versus from the Koran As mirror dogmas eating dogmas And due what We no … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Colonial Rule, Death, Fear, Ideals, Imperialism, Life, Logic, Poems, Poetry, Power, Privilege, Terrorism, Women, Work
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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: Sea of Love
I was lost In a sea of love Only to find my way back To this world Look in my eyes and sea All that I have For you Love is a vast place; one of those places where you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Conventional Wisdom, Experience, God, Joy, Love, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prose, Respect, Short Poems, Silence, Soul, Wisdom
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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: 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: Slow Mo’ Bettor Blues
Is it awe A gambol Sometimes you git Their faster In slow motion More rarefied Then a tortoise and its hair Relegated to children Of God Knowing nothing In the phase of fabled Head weigh Breeding like Rabbits Countering undeniable … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awe, Beautiful, Children, Control, Creation, Culture, Denial, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Gandhi, God, History, Holy, Hospitality, Human Nature, Humanity, Impersonal, Life, Love, Modern, Nationalism, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview
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POEM: A Whole In The Wall
The man Reproached With muscles taut Just as I stood up With a plank beyond question A clear-cut match To the breach in the wall As an unwanted chink in won’s wooden amor As if adore rendering useless In efface … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Authority, Evil, Generosity, Heart, Impersonal, Love, Necessary Evil, Poems, Poetry, Police, Power, Powers that be, Resistance, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Work
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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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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus Retirement Plan
CEO Jesus: You Had Me At The Retirement Plan After a long hiatus, CEO Jesus is back. This comic was inspired by a poem I wrote recently: At Jesus, Inc. I came for the love and mutuality I stayed for … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Free Stuff, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged America, Cartoon, Christian, Christianity, Church, Comics, Death, Jesus, Joke, Love, Martyrdom, Nonviolent, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Prophet, Questions, Radical, Religion, Revolutionary, Risk, Security, Short Poems, State
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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: For Awe Inclusive Crews
In this backwards god-eat-god world In the phase of gratuitous violins Love surpasses all of the prose In the ultimate hatch it job Super seeding awe conceptions Overrunning all of its boarders Teeming with those borne agin Depraving those of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Consumerism, Culture, Cynicism, God, Hell, Job, Life, Love, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Transcendent, Violence
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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
POEM: Living Between The Pages
He wrote She read Studiously massaging Fact and fiction And in between The pages They lived This poem addresses both the role that storytelling plays in the narratives of our lives and the need to move beyond fiction to incarnate … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Cautionary Tale, Character, Ideals, Life, Play, Poems, Poetry, Risk, Short Poems
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POEM: Won Race
He ran his won race Not around other men’s tracks But in open fields Into sunsets and sunrises Never looking back As no one affront And know time Where mostly losers must collect Outside The whiner’s circle And still Fodder … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awareness, Awe, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Gift, Life, Loss, Passion, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Radical, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Self-Awareness, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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POEM: Fore Awe That Can Be Souled
He lived buy The law of the jungle Except for that whole jungle thing And law Fore that madder Welcome too Living bye A-morality A-weigh of living A-lien from nature As not giving One ascent Fore awe that can be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Character, Competition, Death, Evil, Experience, Fear, Gift, Greed, Human Nature, Humanity, Inspiration, Law, Life, Moral, Morality, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Respect, Reverence, Soul, Time, Violence
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