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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: About It
About It I am helpless Though God Is more eloquent Just saying I love you And there is nothing You can do About it This poem is a tribute to human helplessness and the redeeming love of God which we … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Balance, Change, Control, Evil, Experience, God, Grace, Heart, Helplessness, Hope, Life, Love, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Vulnerability
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POEM: Setting Sail
Dear brother This morn I must part Like the wind I can Know longer Take your merchant ship Any moor Borne to sale For that is knot What I was billed for To harbor In relative safety My cell in … Continue reading
POEM: Come Alive
At a party A stranger Approaches several guests With great anticipation Won by won Not asking them The routine inquiry “What do you do for a living?” Instead asking them “What do you do that makes you come alive?” Though … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Change, Gandhi, Job, Jobs, Life, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Puns, Questions, Quotes, Short Poems, Vocation, Work
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POEM: War on Poverty
War on Poverty In our nation’s capital We are drowning in think tanks Our chief armament In the war on poverty And for all of their business They have made up their mine Poverty is not the problem Poverty is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Business, Congress, Heart, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Poverty, President, Progress, Rhetoric, Scarcity, State, Supreme Court, Time, War, Wealth
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POEM: Unending Vocation
She summoned me To tell me Of my new job assignment I soon realized That it was Not beneath me But behind me So I moved on In my unending vocation As I was tolled This poem is autobiographical. This … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Control, Courage, Death, Dreams, Environment, Experience, Future, Gift, God, Helplessness, Job, Kids, Life, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Pride, Privilege, Puns, Reality, Relationships, Short Poems, Spiritual, Time, Trust, Vocation, Work
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POEM: Each Day a Work of Heart
For every won of us Each day Is a work of heart Canvassing inexhaustible possibilities Of epic themes Momentary epiphanies And daily grooves Imploring colors Exploring textures Mating with perfect light Not mirrorly framed Buy the ornate Or threw making … Continue reading
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: Lust Potential
Lust Potential He looked about him And saw Their cups were filled Even overflowing And still He mourned The size of their cups Years ago, I heard a description of heaven as a place where no matter the size of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Acceptance, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Envy, Experience, Fear, God, Heaven, Image, Inspiration, Jealousy, Joy, Life, Loss, Love, Mourning, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Redemption, Scarcity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Not Right in the Head
I am just Not right In the head Just left Of center Heart beats For know reason To love The mathematician, physicist and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, said, “The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.” For most of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Business, Change, Courage, Crazy, Culture, Enlightenment, Exceptionalism, Future, Heart, History, Insanity, Logic, Love, Modern, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, State, Stupid, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: Somewhat Religious
Priscilla was born into a very religious home She was conceived in a somewhat less religious car This very short, funny little poem gets at several aspects of religiosity. First, sometimes people who are “ex” anything are the most harsh … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authenticity, Balance, Character, Children, Compassion, Experience, Funny, Hell, Hope, Hypocrisy, Kids, Play, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Religious, Short Poems, Spiritual, Spirituality
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POEM: It’s About Time
One day I had a dream God came to me and said Meet me tomorrow at 4:32 pm On the bench In the small park At the corner of Ashland and Collingwood Near your home You have something I want … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Christmas, Commercial, Consumption, Dream, Foolish, God, Humanity, Jesus, Joke, Modern, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Reality, Rich, Soul, Time, Wealth, Worldview
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POEM: An Answer to the Problem of Evil
An Answer to the Problem of Evil One morning God woke up Before there was such a thing as morning God was well pleased with God’s self “I know that I am all that!” In fact, the only thing better … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Balance, Enlightenment, Events, Evil, Experience, Gift, God, Grace, Hope, Humility, Ironic, Learning, Life, Loss, Meaning, Mourning, Nature, Perspective, Philosophical, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Redemption, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Spiritual, Transcendence, Transcendent, Wisdom
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POEM: Of Cucumbers and Fences
The punk was going to take My cucumber From my fence So I clutched My trusty shotgun And I fired a shot Way over his head He scattered like so much buckshot Having triggered his nerves Like a fresh kill … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Attitude, Awareness, Conflict, Death, Experience, Fear, Generosity, God, Heart, Joke, Labor, Law, Lazy, libertarian, Life, Poems, Poetry, Pride, Respect, Scarcity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Time, Trust, Truth, Violence, Work
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POEM: A Farcical Foundation
A Farcical Foundation An abundance Of people Build Bank accounts And resumes In lieu of a better world In the face of scarcity Hoarding ourselves Leaving our shares as chump change Our resumes bankrupt In grate sell deception Talked into … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Art, Change, Culture, Experience, Foolish, Generosity, God, Happiness, Heart, Jesus, Life, Love, Modern, Monetize, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poverty, Productivity, Reality, Scarcity, Simplicity, Spiritual, Time, Values, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Getting It Together
I see tragedy in the world Not as the enemy To be retreated from Nor as an accident Captivating my perverse stares Rather a musing These puzzling pieces Of my heart Shuttered into a million pieces In chanting invitations Entranced … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Choices, Evil, God, Healing, Heart, Hope, Idealism, Inane, leadership, Life, Muse, Musings, Nihilism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Reconciliation, State, Tao, Time
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POEM: I Do What I Love
I do what I love I do what I love One of my greatest tenets of evangelism, sharing of good news, is encouraging all to follow their passions and do what they love to do. It is a form of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Insanity, Life, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Spiritual
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POEM: Writing Poetry
I like writing poetry except for the writing part Writing poetry is an art from the heart. If there is work in writing poetry, of which I don’t find much, it somehow relates to brain functioning. My favorite definition of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beautiful, Experience, Heart, Image, Inspiration, Joy, Love, Mind, Mystery, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Short Poems, Work
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POEM: Blood Donor
Blood Donor I work 24/7 365 days a year I work holidays and vacations I even work in my sleep I am a blood donor My work is a gift Enrichness Serving what is but hours The miracle of life … Continue reading
POEM: Picket Fences
More people are imprisoned By picket fences Than steel bars Sometimes by splinters Sometimes by stakes Through the heart Lonely in the end To come home Dreams of white picket fences have waylayed many more lives than prisons or jails. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Compassion, Disillusionment, Dream, Dreams, Evil, Greed, Heart, Life, Materialism, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Reality, Religious, Short Poems, Society, Temptation, Western Civilization, Worldview
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POEM: Whimsically Beat
You may beat me physically But I’ll beat you whimsically The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force. Violence is appealing to persons of low character. Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life. For … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Analogy, Character, Generosity, Humor, Life, Love, Nonviolence, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Rules, Short Poems, Universe, Violence, Whimsical, Whimsy
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