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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: Silence
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
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Tagged Awe, Healing, Muse, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Power, Short Poems, Silence
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POEM: Awe Due Consideration
What is good A bout religion At best There is little to say Giving a fare hearing More about listening Too small Still voices Respecting only what due Saving A few choice words For those empower Occupying humanity Only in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Chaos, Consciousness, Economy, Experience, Gandhi, Gift, God, Hell, Humanity, Irreverence, Life, Moral, Muse, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Scarcity, Science, Silence, Truth, Universe
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POEM: Elephants Prey: Never Forget
What too due Reguarding Assault weepin’s With prey Open season to ignore Smack in the middle Of the roam Elephants And cons of all sorts In outraged equality And dubious cause As attacks increase Their roil highness And unquestionable ump … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, America, Anti-Gun, Depression, Equality, Fear, Future, God, Guns, Hate, Hell, Homophobia, Mother Jones, Poems, Poetry, Political, Pride, Queer, Racism, Second Amendment, Silence, Violence
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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: 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: 24/7 on I-75 — Owed To Trafficking Noise
24/7 on I-75 Only herd In the mourning Quiet scarce With the engines of freedom Racing vicious cycles In know way asking, “who cars?” As you whirr The buzz of the high way The humdrum of civilization The muffled rumble … Continue reading
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Tagged Busyness, Capitalism, Consumerism, Freedom, God, Hope, Life, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Short Poems, Silence
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POEM: Gift Hoarse
The dumb bell rang As he looked The present Like a gift horse in the mouth And in every witch way Reckon as knot so fine Looking forward and backward Of what might be Only seconds As has been A … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Experience, Foolish, Future, Gift, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Present, Puns, Silence, Time
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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
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Tagged Conventional Wisdom, Experience, God, Joy, Love, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prose, Respect, Short Poems, Silence, Soul, 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
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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: 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
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Tagged Awe, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Short Poems, Silence
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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
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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: A Musing Co-Mission — Nein Poems! Owed to Know One
This is nine separate poems comprising one poem, each and all on the theme of the muse mercilessly striking in the middle of the night with irrepressible inspiration from God knows where. God bid me Higher than I Was willing … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Art, Awe, Busyness, Dream, Dreams, God, Inspiration, Mourning, Muse, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Resistance, Silence, Time, Work
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POEM: The World’s Shortest Meditation
Exhale Meditate on Mother Nature Asking only What have you done for me lately? Meditation is difficult. Meditation is exponentially more difficult for each additional minute attempted. The chattering monkeys of the mind interrupt accessing the sacred silence offered by … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Control, Creation, Experience, God, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meditation, Mind, mother nature, Mystery, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Sacred, Short Poems, Silence, Skepticism, Society, Status, Status Quo
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POEM: Brew Aha
In the mettle of this Brew aha Beside myself I took a stand In countering Such ponderous courting How civil this obedience Wear black And white lies Segregated Only spotted As if Sent out to posture Presumptuous in a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Argument, Civil Disobedience, Death, Heart, Hospitality, Justice, Life, Obedience, Oppression, Pi, Play, Poet, Present, Privilege, Racism, Rationalization, Shakespeare, Silence, Social Justice, Transcendent
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POEM: And Love Comes, However Inconceivably
There I stood I was in That not so thin line Between getting More than I could ask for And more than I bargained for The distinction of gratitude Or the convergence of thieves Still born Of one accord I … Continue reading
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
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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: A Strange Gift From Smother Earth
I awoke Too the rumble Of a river of cars Getting the goods Being trucked over and over As fuming motorists And fuelish consumers Whirled wide Tank up With great import As their gauges reach emptily A diction Beyond words … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, Crude, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Gift, Humanity, Insanity, Justice, Life, Lifestyle, Military, Mind, Moral, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poetry, Pollution, Silence, Success, Suicide, Sustainable
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