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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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Category Archives: About Top Pun
POEM: A Fool Among Fools
“Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.” — 1 Corinthians 1:27 A Fool Among Fools I am A fool … Continue reading
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Tagged Foolish, Wisdom
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POEM: A Peace of Me
Are you war out? A Peace of Me I am a citizen Of this planet Awe too familiar With its billion boarders Among condemn nations No’ing what madders Helled sow true A mist means And ends I don’t do war … Continue reading
POEM: Appendix to Everything
This poem is a follow-up or sequel to a very short poem that I wrote 13 years earlier: Everything reminds me of everything else. See blog entry on this poem. The follow-up adds a feel-good sense to knowing that everything … Continue reading
POEM: Underworked Poetry
This poem is about my experience writing poetry, where I as the author get a singular portion of the experience, probably more that those relegated to reading merely the final product. This poem is a cousin to my poem: My … Continue reading
POEM: To Shut Me Up
SPOILER ALERT: I’ve learned that the instant someone starts looking at their phone, they are no longer present to me, and I shut up. Multi-tasking is a myth. To Shut Me Up If you wont To shut me up Pick … Continue reading
POEM: The Kinds of Reality
The subjective aspect of life is determining. I can look at any given reality, or a reality forced upon me, depending how I look at it, and see something very different depending on my attitude and perspective. I strive for … Continue reading
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POEM: Name of Names
There are names of things and there is the One whose name cannot be named. The mysticism in my poetry is its fount and a fare portion of its inaccessibility. When relating to the largesse truths, to get close to … Continue reading
POEM: Nourishment
I have COVID. I am homebound. Though the worst of it is over, my sweetheart is doing a grocery run for me today. Here is a short poem in her honor… Nourishment You deliver Nourishment Of awe kinds You are … Continue reading
POEM: Heir Quality
Ohio air quality ranks 46th among states. As an asthmatic, I keep tabs on real time air quality. I have noticed that in the summer Toledo typically gets its air quality coming in from the northwest, and in the winter … Continue reading
POEM: Knot the Boss of Me
Last night, at a poetry reading, a fellow poet, Joe Sparks, introduced his poem as “the last poem of 2025.” This sparked this poem… Knot the Boss of Me He declared With surprising certainty Sow free from doubt Heed ridden … Continue reading
POEM: Without Papers
I am certifiable but technically not certified… Without Papers I woke In God knows where In plays Bound soully By rivers, mountains, and sky Unknown to imaginary lines of men Where awe is well Free Flowing Beyond dammed nations In … Continue reading
What ̂ a Choice ̂ Life
Beware of unsolicited prophets out and about… What ̂ a Choice ̂ Life As I was Busy wading For something too happen Pretty much anything The man On the bench Offered me Unsolicited ad Vice What you no Could fill … Continue reading
POEM: A Lulu of a Year
I wrote this poem in honor of our oldest grandchild’s first birthday. Seven years young now. A Lulu of a Year Lovely little lady Lulu You are a gift to us awe Or more precisely: awwwwww 12-9-18 The perfect combination … Continue reading
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POEM: Giddy, Up
I am happy to report that I frequently get giddy at the awesomeness of life… Giddy, Up I cried out For knew normal A cross ages Through and through daze Over and over agin Until be for I new it Got … Continue reading
POEM: Blue Prince of Life
I wrote this poem on the occasion of my friend Sean Nestor’s 40th birthday. There is a lot to unpack — just as with Sean! I gave a simple framed copy of this poem, without author info, to unsully the … Continue reading
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POEM: Unkept
This short poem is a companion poem to the poem following it, written 12 years earlier. This poem offers a different view of my bursting heart: one of overflowing joy rather than sadness. Both happen to be true — sometimes … Continue reading
POEM: Re-framed?
A friend once called me “the king of re-framing.” I just see this as taking any experience or situation and making sense of it through the frame of my world view, my most basic assumptions about the world. I strongly … Continue reading
POEM: Meet Up
Worth the admission prize… Meet Up I must admit When God and I meet up I keep minutes Though in awe Honest Seams amor Like ours Somewhere between Novel Punch line Or just teas Weather God’s plays Or my plays … Continue reading
POEMS: God Rains on The Just and The Unjust
This poem is about hubris, specifically that dividing lyin’ between our powerful tendency to favor our own interests, subjective or not, over others who are often reduced to means toward ends, without equal favor. I find the axiom that God … Continue reading
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Tagged Enemies, God, Hubris, Jesus, Love
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