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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: Voyage of the Dammed — Owed to Welcoming Refugees
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- POEM: Mercy Me
- POEM: The Littlest People
- Sea Horse Sense – Owed to Gender Fluidity in Nature
- POEM: Progressive Wins
- POEM: Apportion of Living
- POEM: Who Gets Too Pic?
- POEM: Faith, My Friends
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- POEM: A Hole Life of “have to”
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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Subconscious Not What You Think
Don’t bother pondering the subconscious It’s not what you think This funny poem is a reminder that much of what is life is not directly accessible by us. Most of what goes on in our bodies is outside of our … Continue reading
POEM: Actual Pie vs. Pi
Actual pie is way more than 3.14159 times better than mathematical pi. This simple one line poem makes fun of Western civilization’s fixation on the quantitative versus qualitative. It is big business to reduce everything to a number, preferably dollars … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Beauty, Business, Experience, Nature, One-line Poems, Pi, Short Poems, Time, Western Civilization
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POEM: In God We Trust? Money Speaks!
In God we trust? A graven image We never leave home without Good For all debts, public and private When miss taking goods for good The most note worthy tender legal By George, Abe, Alex, Andy, Ulysses, and Ben Close … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Bible, Capitalism, Christian, Christianity, Class Warfare, Corporate Personhood, Cynical, Dehumanizing, Democracy, Free Speech, God, Hate, Idolatry, Image, Impersonal, Ironic, Irony, Jesus, Love, Modern, Money, Play, Poor, Propaganda, Religion, Rich, State, Supreme Court, Surreal, Technology, Trust, Wall Street, Worship
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POEM: If You Don’t Know What You Want
If you don’t know what you want from life You are quite likely to get it This two-line poem deals with a basic theme of life: discovering what you want from life. Of course, the starting place for this is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Argument, Experience, God, Grace, Heart, Life, Mind, Optimism, Play, Self-Discovery, Short Poems, Surprises, Time, Universe
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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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POEM: Getting Your Ducks in a Row
I once put all my ducks in a row Only then realizing What am I doing with all these ducks?! Getting one’s ducks in a row is an idiom or metaphor that most people are familiar with, meaning that we … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Business, Busyness, Chaos, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Freedom, Future, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idioms, John Lennon, Laziness, Lazy, Learning, Life, Meaning, Mind, Objectivity, Perspective, Physics, Poet, Poetry, Productivity, Quotes, Reality, Rumi, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Simplicity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Subjectivity, Time, Universe, Work, Yogi Berra
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Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology Adds Top Pun’s Epic Poem
The eleventh update of the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology now includes Top Pun’s epic poem: Christmas on Wall Street – Occupying Humanity. Top Pun made the cut, thanks to the rule that all poetry is accepted! You have to love … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Christmas, Humanity, Love, Occupy Wall Street, Parodies, Poems, Poetry, Satire, Top Pun, Wall Street, Wall Street Bull
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POEM: Commercial Interruption
We interrupt this commercial Now that wasn’t so hard Or was it? How many times a day is our consciousness breached by some form of commercial interruption? Way too many times! I consider this commercial assault a major form of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Absurdity, Cathartic, Commercial, Consciousness, Consumerism, Consumption, Control, Culture, Farce, Joy, Life, Living Simply, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Questioning, Short Poems, State, Vanity, Violence, Work
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POEM: I will not insist that you misunderstand me in a certain way
POEM: I will not insist That you misunderstand me In a certain way This short poem is a mere dozen words, yet, it touches on many themes. The primary theme of the short poem is about understanding and misunderstanding. The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Disillusionment, Experience, Illusions, Learning, Life, Love, Musings, Nature, Paradoxes, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Short Poems, Time, Truth
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POEM: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Who wants to be a millionaire? Is that your final question? I like this poem because it deals with the theme of money and the theme of questions. Perhaps needless to say, I have issues with money. And as far … Continue reading
POEM: What Does One Say After An Hour of Meditation?
What does one say after an hour of meditation? How about, “What’s for breakfast?” I like this two-line poem for many reasons. First, the poem contrasts the rather ethereal subject of meditation with the eminently practical need to eat and … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Experience, Joke, Love, Meditation, Mystical, Nature, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Power, Short Poems
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POEM: My Poetry is Shit
My Poetry is Shit by Top Pun My poetry is shit Would I say ingest? And I In awe seriousness Say poetry is the write thing to do But once stripped of this experience Every iota digestible digested It’s daily … Continue reading
Poem: Wordless Dancing
Wordless Dancing by Top Pun If I told you that I’ve figured it out You probably shouldn’t believe me But, if by chance, you find me dancing You need not ask me why Simply discover what makes you dance And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Beautiful, Community, Control, Dancing, Death, Experience, Freedom, Hope, Image, Journey, Joy, Life, Meditation, Musings, Mystical, Nature, Paradoxes, Philosophical, Poems, Rich, Short Poems, Top Pun, Wisdom
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PUNNY Epic Poem: Christmas on Wall Street – Occupying Humanity
In honor of my 50th birthday, I have decided to devote more time to writing. I hope to concentrate on pun-filled political satire, including epic poems. To get you started, here is my first major epic poem, in honor of … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Christian, Christmas, Funny, Hope, Humanity, Jesus, Meaning, Occupy Wall Street, Parodies, Poems, Political, Protest Poetry, Protesters, Puns, Religious, Satire, skin in the game, Spiritual, Time, Wall Street, Wall Street Bull
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