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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
ANTI-VIOLENCE POEM: Sisyphean Tax
He was steeped in the slippery slope of violence An idol escalator Heedlessly powered by gravity and gravitas A climb it denier Of the worst breed Not giving won ascent A bout others In spite of the accost Whatever It … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Attitude, Awe, Consciousness, Creativity, Domination, Experience, Freedom, Hell, Life, Moral, Nature, Nonviolence, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Present, Reactionary, skin in the game, State, Suffering, Time, Top Pun, Violence
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POEM: Sow Much For Multi-tsking
Hello Hello People looking down As electronic devices Looking up Over hear Over their Owned buy virtual realty Totally Sum wear Ails Hole heartedly Parting from wholly presence How due they pay A tension So what? Sow what? Driving us … Continue reading
POEM: Pirate Queen
Wile the sands of time Make some wail and blubber In the aye of the storm You could sea it In the wides of her eyes Shown as bright as a thousand stars Her pupils As deep and rapturous As … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Awe, Camus, Control, Dogma, Farce, Fear, Freedom, Future, Law, Life, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Queer, Radical, Reality, Rebellion, Soul, Spiritual, Status, Superficial, Time, Titanic
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POEM: Unpain Vocations
There are long aligns To unpain vocations Pro-longed wading to a temp And after awe Many will Due what tolled Unwilling to pay the accost In baring feudal labor As unsuitable to be delivered And forever borne agin Illiciting that … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Dreams, Economy, Heart, Hope, Labor, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Values, Vocation, Work, Workplace
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POEM: Unridden
I can Right more Poems Than you reed Beat Too the weighs Of the whirled Having words And chasing paper To live only As every won wants To be Still Unridden An other Blooming in carnation This poem is a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Life, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: Rousing Fresh Fortune
To no what is possible Sum look too the passed To undertake certainties Too due dreams untested Some are moved Bye this present Liberating futures seized And undo The knot tied And never tried How Ever prospecting possibilities in awe … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Art, Awe, Control, Curiosity, Dream, Dreams, Existential, Experience, Failure, Future, Gift, Heart, Joy, Life, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Religious, Science, Spiritual, Top Pun, Yogi Berra
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POEM: Mad ’em Presidents
Knowing either jack or Jill Raze your Stein As Donald Trump sucks The “Oh too” out of the room Plenty of space In the huge check Box Of which to think out of Beyond first lady and commander-in-chief Paid in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Choices, Crises, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Fear, Feminist, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, President, Progress, Republican, State, Surreal, Third Party, Top Pun, Values, Voters, Voting, Women
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POEM: Awe That Is Fine Her
Sheez Know more than Know less than Then any won ails In whatever Whirled Privileged to breathe at awe Fenced buy abets Dis regarding Weather grate her Or less her As any won object Is any thing worth wile Over … Continue reading
TOLEDO POEM: The Glass City Is Refillable
Have empty Have full Pundit prognosticating Weather tea town, big gulp, whine, or throwback After work All a buzz A bout how well suited politicians Re-billed a city of denim Putting out hope In efface of houses emptied And streets … Continue reading
POEM: Reject
They took out a social contract On her In what might as well be Too her Too be As good As dead From their point of you Her response sow questionable If it’s awe the same Too you I’ll strike … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Camus, Character, Courage, Dehumanizing, Evolution, Humanity, Idioms, leadership, Learning, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Prose, Rage, Rebellion, Resistance, Revolution, Rules, Society, Status, Status Quo
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POLITICAL POEM: Pick You’re Genocide
Pick You’re genocide Won side or the other Gun to head Ahead to gun Aliens pervade our atmosphere As whirled wore thee Restless natives no so slight Wear homieland security rules Redcoats and bluecoats Everyday cover ups Of fuzz overruling … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Change, Choices, Congress, Courage, Democracy, Diversity, Domination, Elections, Evolution, Faith, Fear, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Mind, Money, National, Optimism, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Rage, Revolution, Revolutionary, Rich, Rules, Security, Silence, Sustainable, Time, Voters, Voting, Work
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POEM: Naught For Prophet Fun Razing
In the crucible Of the well-heeled And the, well, heeled He surrounded himself With corporate persons Naught for prophet organizations Possessed buy a cutting edge currency paper thin The filing and folding kind Their foundational hope Nay only hope To … Continue reading
POLITICAL POEM: Elections Bought and Souled
What due You Know choice candidates Fenced by kleptocrats And undebatable Republicrats Their exclusive promise A system fixed Throwing political parties Incorporations wee trust In-firm ideologies The body politic Under the whether Or worse yet Riddled with ballots Everlustingly powered … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Ballot, Choices, Consumption, Donald Trump, Elections, Funny, Future, Hell, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Puns, Republican, Revolution, Sacred, State, Third Party, Time, Trust, Wisdom
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POEM: Hippie Hippie Array!
I am A bohemian, man Razing consciousness wherever Or whatever I happen to wander about Are you Brushed off by my long hair While you suck it up All the err Straining awe of your shabby tension In the face … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Consciousness, Demonstrators, Gender, Gift, Holy, Hope, Intellect, Joy, Lazy, Poems, Poetry, Spiritual, Superficial, Top Pun
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BLACK LIVES MATTER POEM: US Flagging?
WHAT?! Part of don’t don’t Wee under stand A bout Being Black in America Served up by coppers Not worth too sense Like Lincolns shot in the head From a civil war that never ends Accept buy the death of … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Back Lives Matter, Criminal Justice System, Death, Fear, Heart, Justice, Law, Law Enforcement, Poems, Poetry, Police, Police Brutality, Privilege, Redemption, Sacred, War, Work
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POEM: Technicolored Jesus
Is it time for one of those Come to Jesus moments Wear there is skin in the game Beyond black and white Word And what surrounds Words Becoming flesh Another flood In a see of Red between the lyin’s More … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Blessed, Christianity, Doctrine, Enlightenment, Hell, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Nonviolence, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Racism, Religion, skin in the game, Slavery, Soul, Time, Violence
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POEM: Sew Much Silence
Sew much silence And not enough Ears To take it in Awe that seams Unspoken Just got back from a Nonviolent Communication group session with the topic of “Receiving Empathically.” Such active listening to ourselves, other people, and, on a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Healing, Muse, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Power, Short Poems, Silence
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