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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: Poems
POEM: God Gets a Bad Wrap
God gets a bad wrap As do men Gloom Over Rite and wrong Babies borne of bathwater Throne buy themselves Like clay Giving rise To the pitter potter of little feats And inconceivable images Speaking out laud In a class … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Authority, Awe, Blessed, Character, Curiosity, Denial, Einstein, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Faith, God, Grace, Guns, Hubris, Humanity, Impersonal, Intellect, Ironic, Justice, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Mystical, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Pride, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Rich, Silence, Simplicity, Skepticism, Spiritual, State, Transcendence, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: Mental Health Café
In the mental health café Most of us just order the usual The anxiety du jour A small mixed salad of worries With a little resentment on the side For many, anxiety is the norm. Anxiety seems to propel life … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Anxiety, Authority, Conundrum, Existential, Fear, God, Greed, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Resentment, Sartre, Selfish, Short Poems, State
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POEM: Not The Usual Joke
A Hindu A Muslim A Christian And a Jew Walk into a bar And the bartender says Greetings, Mr. Gandhi Let me guess You don’t want “the usual” This short poem takes the format of a common joke. However, one … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Albert Schweitzer, Buddhism, Buddhist, Change, Christian, Compassion, Enlightenment, Experience, Freedom, Funny, Gandhi, God, Heart, Hindu, History, Joke, Life, Logic, Love, Muslim, Mystic, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Psychology, Religion, Religious, Short Poems, Slavery, Soul, Theology, Time, Transcendence, Truth, Universe, Violence
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POEM: As the Show Must…Go On!
As the Show Must…Go On! Desperately seeking an audience With kings, queens, and commoners Call in the troupes! Who will perform her Aspiring thespians Willing to do Shakespeare Or any low brow play right As parts are parts Whether broad … Continue reading
POEM: Arousing Spirit
She had a profoundly rousing spirit Unfortunately, he did not believe in spirits And lack of belief Will only Carry you so far I like this short poem because it plays with the notions of spirit and disbelief. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, Courage, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Literacy, Logic, Love, Materialism, Materialist, Modern, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Randomness, Reality, Religious, Security, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Skepticism, Society, Spiritual, Time, Trust, Worldview
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POEM: A Ghastly Alchemy
For just Some Dam Weepin’s permit I protect and serve Up my enemies Like Cold Turkey Shoot Only to rifle But growing ode In a ghastly alchemy Silver bullets turning to lead Down the wrong path Instantly poisoned Hearts and … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Common Good, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Democracy, Denial, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Guns, Human Rights, Ideals, Life, Loss, Moral, Morality, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rage, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, Selfish, Violence, Virtue, Work
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POEM: Seriously?!
The Zen master was nearly Finished with his instruction When he got to non-seriousness I was greatly relieved For I was taking nothing He was saying Seriously This short poem gets at one of the great paradoxes of enlightened spirituality: … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Blessed, Buddhist, Compassion, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Cynical, Disease, Enlightenment, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideology, Joke, Life, Logic, Materialism, Materialist, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Paradoxes, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rules, Sacred, Science, Short Poems, Spiritual, Spirituality, Tao, Theology, Time, Transcendence, Transcendent, Zen
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POEM: More Than, a Nester — Owed to Seán Nestor, in honor of his 29th birthday
More Than, a Nester Owed to Seán Nestor in honor of his 29th birthday In the beginning There was a good egg In compassed By a paltry brood A restless nativity And ageless questions Of what thirst And what last … Continue reading
POEM: Throwing Up Her Arms in Disgust
She threw up her arms in disgust He said that she might want to stick to finger food This short, funny poem is a good case study into how my twisted mind works. First, I am not often put off … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Food, Funny, Humor, Logic, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Whimsy
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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: A Life Virtual, oh so…
There was twitter Jen Facebook Jen Work Jen School Jen Family Jen Amongst others Never at risk That they would hookup Or unplug In some formidable Jen convention Or at least the latest version In some ever expending universe Wear … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Authenticity, Experience, facebook, Family, Heart, Hope, Identity, Intimacy, Life, Love, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Relationships, Risk, Superficial, Time, Trust, Universe, Virtual Reality, Work
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POEM: Until The Banks Overflow
In awe of creation I am Not alone There is just us Like an ever flowing stream Until the banks overflow Into unquenchable cache And from the breast Of life Sucking I am left Nothing more Than write This short … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Creation, Greed, Life, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Scarcity, Short Poems
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POEM: Unsatisfying Kiss
A philosopher trying to ascertain God’s existence Is like a man trying to kiss himself And even less satisfying This short poem is simply a poetic attempt to get at the chasm of difference between speaking about God and actually … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Creation, Experience, Food, God, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: Duckiness
Long the weigh I miss Took some clash Charging another Once an abject of my affection Now a worthy suspect In a lineup Of numbered whoa’s Among many Seedy subjects On the lam Yet beyond a shadow Of doubt To … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Attitude, Blessing, Change, Choices, Compassion, Control, Experience, Generosity, Healing, Hope, Intimacy, Kindness, Life, Loss, Love, Passion, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Psychology, Relationships, Responsibility, Romantic, Suffering, Time, Vulnerability, Work
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POEM: Wage Slave Be Free
I am not a wage slave I am free And worth every penny This week, I celebrated 10 years free from wage slavery! My ensuing poverty has been a small price to pay for this freedom. I am the richest … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Climate Change, Diminishing Returns, Economic, Employment, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Happiness, History, Income, Job, Jobs, Labor, Life, Lifestyle, Living Simply, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poverty, Power, Productivity, Rich, Short Poems, Slavery, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Eulogizing Fort Hood
Eulogizing Fort Hood It is not ours to ask Why those so schooled In violence Should act violently On a vocation so seriously Taking Won too many weepings Lead so quickly Penetrating human hearts Our own flesh Not at home … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Guns, Heart, Nonviolence, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Rage, Veterans, Violence, Vocation
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