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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
EPIC POEM: As Night Watch Man
In the deep Of the knight Watch man Finding one self prone Where singular stars obscure As perpetual high noon Where time stops Straight up Where the sun don’t shine Like a broken time peace With patients in undated Wear … Continue reading
POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: Trump U
What are you Fraud of That witch trumps university Coaching that imperceptible deference Between ignorance and apathy Knot knowing or caring Students funked Never to be Defunct Taken by the Don Bankrupt in every way Never graduating pompous circumstances And … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Apathy, Awe, Donald Trump, Evolution, God, Humanity, Poems, Poetry, Third Party, Truth
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POEM: They Knot His and Her — Owed To Gender Fluidity
They cross that strait When they get two it As engender queer In mirrorly two be Or knot too be This poem is an ode to gender fluidity, to anyone who looks in the mirror and sees a different gender … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Diversity, Equality, Female, Future, Gender, History, Identity, Justice, Life, Ode, Poetry, Political, Pride, Queer, Reactionary, Short Poems, Social Justice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Transgender
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POEM: Commander-in-chief
Just Say it Three times fast He/she/it Commander-in-chief Presiding over No unwounded soldiers As sum kind Of used scars salesman Master of what we auto do Protector of awe we car about As if Some amored vehicle Good grief Shock … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Creation, Evil, God, Hell, Image, Life, Military, Nationalism, Nonviolence, Normal, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Power, President, Propaganda, Reality, Sacred, Sacrifice, Slavery, Time, Top Pun, Trust, Violence, War, Worship
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POEM — His Whole: Life
His whole Life Flashed before his ayes Too living In singular moments And unrepeatable joys Awe the more In whatever may A peer As extra ordinary This 26 word poem is an example of one of my short poems crammed … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Experience, Fear, Life, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Rich, Short Poems, Theology
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POEM: An Aesthetic Hope
In anesthetizing hope A certain author Did what he thought was write Sow cerebrally saying Hope is not a feeling Rather hope is an action To wit I despond This brakes down positively Why I get The extinct feeling of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Blessing, Dreams, Experience, God, Grace, Hope, Irony, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Soul
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POEM: Flowing Inevitably Threw Us
Our hearts were broke A cache sow, well, spent In solvent In life Long Yearnings Teaming tsunamis of solidarity Of the largesse kind Poor Over us Torn as under A heavy wait Pre-seeding A compelling yield As if Some bank … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Compassion, Dreams, Experience, Generosity, Grace, Heart, Holy, Injustice, Kindness, Life, Love, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Romantic, Serendipity, Solidarity
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POEM: To Be Read Or Not
Her life was written In the margins Tolled in fine print Subject to lexicons Beyond apprehension Not adorned by elegant types Or gaudy cursive In fancy addresses Wear truth is stranger then fiction More than won could possibly ink Never … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Celebrations, Feminism, Feminist, Healing, Life, Poems, Poetry, Sacred, Silence, Solidarity, Truth, Women
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POEM: Having Her Weigh With Me
The muse had her weigh with me And it was sow right There was nothing left Accept light This short poem is about the love affair between an artist and their muse. The grace-ridden gifts from beyond our doing and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Grace, Job, Joy, Life, Love, Muse, Poems, Poetry, Productivity, Short Poems
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POEM: Plodding Vivacious Nature
While I was busy Doing my busyness Over taking My competition Nature was successively Undertaking my previous busyness done Supplanting my decomposing legacy With crop worth feasting on In treating me As patience heel Going Won better Nature calls Barely … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Competition, Creation, Environmental, Hospitality, Life, Love, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Time
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POEM: In A Family Weigh
The future looms Sew large As we seam Sow singularly stranded In the present Weave heir A parent With know designs Beyond Sum won ails And grater still The mine wandering Too what end As life goes On and on … Continue reading
POEM: The Curator
I am The curator Of your infinite beauty Privy to collections timeless And in real time Streaming glorious tributaries To the art of who you are This is a poem about the glorious privilege in close relationships of having unique … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beauty, Character, Conflict, Creation, Experience, God, Holy, Imagination, Joy, Life, Love, Love Poems, Muse, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Reality, Relationships, Reverence, Short Poems, Stupid, Time, Universe, Work
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POEM: A Choiring, Raw Youth
Their raw youth Was tenderly witnessed By age owed eyes In awe Their awkward glory Surpassing polished learning More than could ever anew This poem is a reminder to both young and old about the raw beauty of youth, the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Community, Compassion, Dream, Experience, Grace, Hope, Joy, Kids, Learning, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Trust
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POEM: Re-lying on Day-old Knews
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah The news drones on Massaging and spinning Disembodied heads a top Heartless ‘n titties in dis cursive and desultry means Temperately flailing to wake us From our terrorific slumber Our tired and true rejoinder Hit … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Democracy, Drones, Evil, Farce, Fox News, Humanity, Just for the Health of It, Media, Objectivity, Parodies, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Public Health, Responsibility, Superficial, Toledo, Truth, Vanity, Violence, WAKT
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POEM: Forging Another Plan It
Politics Is just Another plan it Plutocracy The best Money can bye This short poem is about money in politics, the ultimate manifestation of which is plutocracy. When money is king, you can say good buy to democracy. Do you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Debt, Democracy, Diversity, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Love, Money, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Rich, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Surreal, Wall Street
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POEM: Present Daze
God invented the eight hour day But buy popular demand Parently beyond what could ever be yearned The ardor one tries Only leaves won With more or less Wanting more our In their daze With each re-quest First off with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authorities, Busyness, Children, Creation, Culture, Death, Experience, Freedom, God, government, Harmony, Human Nature, Human Rights, Identity, Inspiration, Labor, Life, Media, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Police, Present, Respect, Sabbath, Sacrifice, Sleep, Time, Transcendent, Work
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POEM: Enough Awe Ready
He saw The future In have Like sum carnival game Destined to win As if In sane As blown two bits Caught looking Like a fun house mirror Mirror on the wall Axing who is the fairest Of ummm awe … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Celebrity, Culture, Denial, Dreams, Evil, Experience, Future, God, History, Hope, Life, Money, National, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Possessions, Power, Present, Security, Status, Superficial, Surreal
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POEM: Unbroken
She snapped Too a tension As shot Wrung out And as her life left her Realizing Won does not die By bled alone As neither does One live Buy bred A loan For giving Awe that is Unbroken I have … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Heaven, Hell, Life, Meditation, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Short Poems, Time
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