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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: 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: Bell of the Bawl: Owed To Gaia
An ocean of salty water rises From the cries unheard Submerging from the wounds of the body politic Stupefied in the face of enduring smarts Delugings egressing from a tsunami of 100% proof And in the offing Will we sea … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Awe, Change, Climate Change, Humanity, Humor, Image, Mother Earth, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Stewardship, Sustainable
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POEM: Car Less
One moment I have a car The next moment I don’t The universe conspires To nourish my feral body and sole Not with the twisted steal of civilization But as a carrot In a field of vision Meting its purpose … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Experience, God, Grace, Inspiration, Life, Mother Earth, Ode, Paradoxes, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Time, Universe
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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POEM: You’re Ass It’s Monetized
Monetize You’re ass It’s What Civilized People Due This is a good Monday poem, as millions return to jobs where their value as human beings takes a back seat to their value as moneymaking machines. In our capitalistic culture, when … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Culture, Economy, Humanity, Idolatry, Irony, Job, Jobs, Monetize, Money, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Reverence, Short Poems, 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: Not Buying Heaven or Hell
Being not tempted Buy heaven or hell I yearn my keep From the love unearth I like epic themes, such as heaven and hell. Nonetheless, I find the carrot of heaven or the stick of hell to be a distraction … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynical, Death, Evolution, Experience, Family, God, Grace, Heaven, Hell, Human Race, Humanity, Imagination, Intellect, Life, Love, Modern, Murder, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Redemption, Short Poems
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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: Democracy – as seen on TV
Wherever I land In the electoral whirled Politicians ceremoniously execute The will of the people In doctored fashion Yet an other sort of capitol punishment Delegated to the coroner Turning voting off In a Pyrrhic victory So hollowed by those … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Community, Cynical, Democracy, Elections, Enemies, Humanity, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Punishment, Reactionary, Reality, Time, Truth, Voting
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POEM: Nothing New Under The Sun
There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Disease, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Fear, Foolish, Freedom, Generosity, God, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Heart, Humanity, Job, Liberal, Life, Market, Meaning, Money, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Religion, Respect, Scarcity, Security, Silence, Sleep, Status, Suffering, Worldview
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POEM: The History of Civilization
They lived in the period of civilization A properly punctuated death sentience That no’s know end This poem is a reflection on the deathly aspects of so-called civilization, its facade of propriety, and penchant for denial. The members of most … Continue reading
POEM: Be Riffed of Life
He said “The world is inert.” I said “You mean Dead?” He re-plied That it is Assure thing Beyond doubt I queeried “On your incite Or the out?” By all means Necessary As you must And arbitrary mold No higher … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Denial, Evolution, Experience, Failure, Life, Materialist, Mourning, Nature, Perspective, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Projection, Subjectivity, Surreal, Universe
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