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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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- POEM: Untouchable
- POEM: Redeeming Coup on Pharaohs
- POEM: What Superpower
- POEM: An Eve with Netanyahu
- POEM: Compassion Sidelined
- POEM: A Confession — For the Birds
- POEM: Let Them Eat Bullets
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- POEM: Winning’s Everything
- POEM: I Am Not the Dictater
- POEM: Get Over It
- POEM: On Fire and Ice — Owed to Aaron Bushnell
- POEM: Dis Quieting Genocide
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- POEM: God’s Preferential Option
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- POEM: Can You Ever Halve Enough?
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Tag Archives: God
POEM: Redeeming Coup on Pharaohs
God has a sense of humor. Sometimes pompous, hypocritical religionists get their religion handed to them on a plate by the disenfranchised who have a gift of accessing truth in strange places, redeeming that worthless scrip of others. The lords … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christianity, Disenfranchised, Gift, God, Holy, Humor, Hypocritical, Nature, Religion, Truth
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POEM: Following A Higher Doody
Unfortunately, Christianity is too oft weaponized against our very own siblings of God. Following A Higher Doody Their those Christians Who go to church They’re those Christians Who go Too church
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christianity, Church, God
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POEM: God’s Preferential Option
I have learned that an open heart is a broken heart. A common reaction to pain, stress, or trauma is to close down as a defense mechanism. While the world has plenty of pain, stress, and trauma, a healthy response … Continue reading
POEM: As Humanity Reseeds
Here is an apocalyptic valentine, a final kiss planted. As Humanity Reseeds That final mourning We greet With a kiss A poetic rejoinder Transcendent graffiti Write on the apocalypse In a whirled that had Drunk The Kool-Aid® Even at that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, God, Humanity, Mourning, Transcendent, Valentine
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POEM: Dogged Reasoning
This a poem highlighting the barren view of life that rugged reasoning can impose on the awesome experience of consciousness. Life is much more than sterile propagation of the specious. Dogged Reasoning He wood Knot know Consciousness If he Saw … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Experience, God, Job, Life
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POEM: Seeking Haven — Deed On A Rival
Here is a poem about our nation’s recalcitrance in welcoming immigrants and refugees. Wile we use cramped legalisms to incarcerate our hearts, many speak openly in racist and violent terms. I strongly suspect that we would do better as a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Citizenship, God, Illegal, Refugees, Work
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POEM: The Run Down on Lifting Up
This poem is a call to avoid running down those who seek to lift up. The poem has a tip of the hat to Dorothy Day and her infamous quote, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Dorothy Day, God, History, Life, Morality, Soul, Temptation
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POEM: From God Slips To My Years
Here is yet another poem about the experience of writing poems, or transcribing them from a muse. From God Slips To My Years In what manor May we discuss the whether A poet or a stenographer In plaque-able quest in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Alliterate, Awe, Experience, God, Hope, Muse, Poems, Poet
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POEM: Yours to Deicide
Wile it doesn’t make cents for some, I see humanity is one. I strongly suspect that there is only one side. Thus, in a religious sense, any won that kills other children of God is ungodly. In some sense, killing … Continue reading
POEM: God Thirst
This is a poet’s poem about the ineffable muse and singing her prays. God Thirst He was drunk In poetry An outspoken unspoken word artist And still Imbibe Hymn As well
POEM: A Queer World
This poem is about the queer reality that if there were not homophobia, I would not have been born, as my Dad is gay. Only the rejection of his sexual orientation and the societal “need” to enter a “heterosexual” marriage … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Gay, Poems
Tagged Equality, God, Hate, Heterosexual, Homophobia, Incarnation, Joke, Justice, Poetic Justice, Queer, Reality
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POEM: Still Quiet Powerful
This poem captures a funny perspective that I have on atheists. I definitely feel for people with agnostic perspectives; though I see it as a bit indecisive. On the other hand, I see atheists as carrying their certainty a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Failure, Funny, God, Job, Perspective
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POEM: True Story
Perhaps the best Dad joke ever told. True Story Won time In Bible study We were discussing the whether A human can see the face of God And live The reverend said know Buuuuttt Being made In His image According … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Bible, God, Image, Jewish, Joke, Time
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POEM: What Counts?
Mysticism is at the heart of all true religion. Experiencing the mystic, the sublime, may involve wooing over generations, even eons. However, on some inexplicable occasions, mystic experiences fuel an incinerator that lays waste to all convention and worldviews. The … Continue reading
POEM: Dread Full Theology
This funny little poem illustrates just how far my mind goes to set up a pun. WARNING: this poem gets a little hairy. Dread Full Theology So, you think God is dead? I am not sure But I do know … Continue reading
POEM: The Dumbest Thing I Ever Metaphor
This poem is a tribute to the dumbfounding reality that speaking about God is extremely dangerous, almost as dangerous as not speaking about God. I am perpetually drawn to contemplating ultimate concerns, which naturally outline one’s respective, or irrespective, views … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Conundrum, Fundamentalism, God, Holy, Nature, Reality, Religion, Spirituality
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POEM: The Stub
This poem is a small tale of serendipity where even the small stub of a toe could lead to large discovery, and weather this discovery turns out to be a blessing or a curse may also deep end on serendipity. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessing, God, Grace, Healing, Serendipity, Time, Vocation
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POEM: That Fine Line
Life is complicated. Many of us use this as a rationalization to avoid decisive action. This can leave us in a morass of moral confusion. If we a fine line a ledge, the slightest movement may result in profoundly different … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Balance, Creation, Extinction, Faith, God, Life, Meaning, Meditation, Modern, Moral, Opposites, Rationalization, Science, Society, Statistics, Values, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Oh Israel, Unequivocally State Fallowed Script Her
I have always admired the Torah and Old Testament perpetual reminders of “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,” and the precept, “You shall not oppress … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Failure, Food, God, Hell, History, Israel, Modern, Muslims, Palestine, Palestinian, People of The Book, Religion, Religious, Sacred, State, Truth, Xenophobia, Zionist
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POEM: The Broke In Heart
This poem is another meditation on a chronically broken heart, busted wide open, caught a mist the beauty of awe creation and the cruelty of the whirled. My heart poors into the world with awe that cannot be contained. The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Creation, Cruelty, God, Heart, Joy, Meditation, Mystical, Status
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