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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: Gratitude
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: Just Desserts
I had a dream Where we lived In a world Where everyone got What they deserved I woke up And was pleased To recollect We receive More than we deserve This short poem is about grace. In more tight-fisted moments, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Consciousness, Dream, Evil, Experience, Fear, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Ironic, Jesus, Justice, Life, Moral, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Prophet, Punishment, Reality, Short Poems
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POEM: Know Knead to Brink
I live at the fringes At the boundary of what is and what could be Sow playful a lure At the threshold of what might not be and what should be Seriously brewed At the edge of the abyss I … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, Anxiety, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Chaos, Community, Control, Courage, Creation, Enemies, Experience, Facts, Fear, Gandhi, God, Grace, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Life, Love, Meaning, Moral, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Punishment, Reality, Rules, Sociopathy, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent
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POEM: Inexplicably Wonderful
The gift of life Is quite inexplicably wonderful But fear not Teams of scientists Are working Around the clock To redress this problem Skepticism has its limits. In practice, I am a skeptic of much skepticism. Life is wonderful. The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynical, Cynicism, Disease, Fear, Gift, Gratitude, Heaven, Irony, Life, Meaning, Militant, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Religion, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Time, Work
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POEM: Amateurs and Prose
There are moments When I feel Like such an amateur Then the payments come So much more Than I could ever hope for The only falling short Is ever thinking That life Is fated to be Any won thing Except … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Beautiful, Debt, Experience, Generosity, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Hope, Life, Luck, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Reality, Serendipity
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POEM: Forgiving Justice
Forgiveness can no more refute The demands of justice And its claim reguarding the lost Than justice can outflank The necessity of forgiveness To open the door for peace A heart rendering choice The difference being Securing one’s house Or … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awareness, Experience, Fear, Forgiveness, Gandhi, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Injustice, John Lennon, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Present, Questions, Reality, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Short Poems
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POEM: BUCKET BRIGADE – Owed to Karen Krause
BUCKET BRIGADE Owed to Karen Krause While some pine That faith The size of a mustard seed Can move mountains Like magic Perhaps with a wrinkle of their knows Wiser women know How mountains move Bucket by bucket By outstretched … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems
Tagged Awe, Courage, Death, Experience, Faith, Food, Gift, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Humility, Injustice, Jesus, Jobs, Jobs with Justice, Justice, Life, Meaning, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Powers that be, Public Health, Social Justice, Time, Toledo, Truth, Women, Work
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POEM: Fortunately
Unfortunately I am deeply cynical The sum of my hurts, disappointments, and fears Fortunately I am unfathomably hopeful Beguiled by unearned graces Surrounded by serendipity And pelted by joys out of the blue In many ways, life is a double-edge … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Character, Control, Courage, Cynical, Fear, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Life, Poems, Poetry, Resentment, Serendipity, Short Poems
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POEM: Disillusionment
You say that you’re disillusioned like it’s a bad thing My whole life I’ve heard people talk about being disillusioned in one way or another. Not once have I heard this with anything but a negative connotation. This one line … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Cynicism, Disillusionment, Enlightenment, Gratitude, Hope, Humanity, Illusions, Life, Meaning, One-line Poems, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Truth
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POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Serendipity and Dippity Doo
On occasions I find it easy To believe In sarin gas And dippity doo Rather than serendipity These are not special occasions While many of my poems have an edge to them, my body of work is decidedly hopeful. This … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alliteration, Anger, Attitude, Awareness, Conflict, Denial, Gift, Gratitude, Hope, Inane, Injustice, Life, Poems, Poetry, Power, Serendipity, Short Poems, Time, Violence, Work
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POEM: I am
The other day I got kicked out Of an atheist’s club Told in no uncertain terms There is science And no other! And I am left To wonder Wow, where did that come from?! I was raised A Christian A … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Atheist, Attitude, Buddhism, Christian, Compassion, Conventional Wisdom, Counter-Cultural, Death, Einstein, Experience, Fundamentalism, Gandhi, God, Gratitude, Hindu, Jesus, Jewish, Job, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Militant, Muslim, Muslims, Palestinian, Philosophical, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Religion, Science, Sikh, Spiritual, Spirituality, Suffering, Theology, Universe
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POEM: No Longer on Speaking Terms with God
I am no longer on speaking terms with God She keeps pouring drink into my cup overflowing And I no longer have the heart to say when Only ever with a rye smile Would she say to me “eat me” … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Experience, Funny, God, Gratitude, Heart, Poems, Poetry, Rich
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POEM: Sleeping In
I love mornings that I can sleep in I call them “weekdays” I am a wealthy man! I can go for months at a time without the need for an alarm clock. How many have such wealth? In crass terms, … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems
Tagged Freedom, Gratitude, Health Insurance, Life, Love, Meditation, Normal, Power, Short Poems, Sleep, Time, Wealth
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POEM: Morning Prayer, Waking Up
I say a prayer of thanks every morning I wake up Except about the whole having-to-wake-up thing This is a simple one of my short poems. The first line of the poem strikes a very traditional chord, dealing with morning … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Busyness, Conundrum, Culture, Experience, Gratitude, Life, Mind, Poems, Prayer, Present, Reality, Short Poems, Time
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