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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: Fallen Reign
- POEM: The Future, The Passed
- POEM: Your Fired
- POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
- POEM: Bred of Life
- POEM: Scorpions in a Bottle
- POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
- POEM: Healing Fire
- POEM: Net Zeroed
- POEM: Showing Up
- POEM: Taking, Their Q
- POEM: King of the Hill
- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
- POEM: Wiled Fires
- POEM: Progress
- POEM: Fratricide
- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
- POEM: A Poet’s Currency
- POEM: Love Birds
- POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
- POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
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Tag Archives: Children
HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness
I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research. I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged Anxiety, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Change, Character, Children, Church, Culture, Environment, Events, Experience, Future, Happiness, Heart, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Joy, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Meaning, Modern, Money, Nature, Perspective, Play, Political, Present, Psychology, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Respect, Rich, Risk, Sacrifice, Science, Selfish, Society, Soul, State, Suffering, Superficial, Surreal, Time, Values, War, Welfare, Work
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COMEDIAN JESUS: Pax Romana — You’re Killing Me!
This Comedian Jesus political cartoon highlights the shallow liberalism and false choices of Pax Romana, the metaphorical stand-in for Pax Americana, peace through so-called enlightened domination. This Comedian Jesus cartoon also ties the all-too-convenient collaboration of political and religious elites … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Accountability, America, Authority, Awe, Cartoon, Children, Choices, Church, Citizens, Citizenship, Comics, Creation, Death, Domination, Employment, Funny, God, Hope, Ideals, Imperialism, Jesus, Martyrdom, Military, Modern, Money, Mother Earth, Nonviolence, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Powers that be, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Radical, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Xenophobia
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POEM: A Boner Fide Off Her
Things are heating up in America As round the earth Flatlanders are in a whirled Of applausable deniability As their scholar ship sales Off any known atlas Of shrugging turtles And histrionic elephants Lording over mice and men In the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Children, Climate Change, Denial, Environmental, Free market, Hubris, Logic, Market, masculinity, Mother Earth, Nature, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Victim Blaming
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POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: In A Family Weigh
The future looms Sew large As we seam Sow singularly stranded In the present Weave heir A parent With know designs Beyond Sum won ails And grater still The mine wandering Too what end As life goes On and on … Continue reading
POEM: Present Daze
God invented the eight hour day But buy popular demand Parently beyond what could ever be yearned The ardor one tries Only leaves won With more or less Wanting more our In their daze With each re-quest First off with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authorities, Busyness, Children, Creation, Culture, Death, Experience, Freedom, God, government, Harmony, Human Nature, Human Rights, Identity, Inspiration, Labor, Life, Media, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Police, Present, Respect, Sabbath, Sacrifice, Sleep, Time, Transcendent, Work
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POEM: Another Martyr Bides The Dust
Another martyr bides the dust And I was a stray Beside myself In the fog Of yet another mourning The missed over my heart Feeling only that ephemeral beaten The wait on my brain Fueled into thinking of the dread … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Character, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Community, Compassion, Conscience, Conservative, Death, Dorothy Day, Elite, Environmental, Family, Fear, Freedom, God, government, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Hope, Human Race, Imperialism, Integrity, Jesus, Life, Love, Martyr, Militarism, Military, Mourning, National, nobel peace prize, Obedience, Occupy Wall Street, Oligarchy, Poems, Poet, Political, Poverty, Power, Prison, Protests, Religious, Religious Freedom, Risk, Sacred, State, Time, Truth, Wall Street, War, Women, Work
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POEM: Until Hell Frees Us
Be very frayed Terrorism comes From know where Deep in the recesses Of kindergarten bullying Capital vocations And martial lawlessness Awe rapped up in won’s highest I deal Those unspeakable prophets In security Detained indefinitely Until hell frees us Ever … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Accountability, Awe, Children, Culture, Death, Evil, Fear, God, Hell, History, Hope, Hypocritical, Idioms, Injustice, Jesus, Justice, Life, Logic, Militarism, Moral, Necessary Evil, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Obedience, Oppression, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Privilege, Reality, Rich, Sacrifice, Security, State, Terrorism, Time, Violence, War, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: A World Without Boarders
Mother earth bids us What rend must we pay For such fear in dwelling In apprehending tenets In discriminating borne Giving no quarter To mother and child And presumed fodder Taking the place Of wear every won re-sides Drawing lyin’s … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Children, Common Good, Consciousness, Death, Fear, Healing, Hope, Humanity, Illegal, Lazy, Life, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Racism, Rhetoric, Security, State, Stewardship, War, Xenophobia
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POEM: Slow Mo’ Bettor Blues
Is it awe A gambol Sometimes you git Their faster In slow motion More rarefied Then a tortoise and its hair Relegated to children Of God Knowing nothing In the phase of fabled Head weigh Breeding like Rabbits Countering undeniable … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awe, Beautiful, Children, Control, Creation, Culture, Denial, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Gandhi, God, History, Holy, Hospitality, Human Nature, Humanity, Impersonal, Life, Love, Modern, Nationalism, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview
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POEM: Weepin of Choice
His unwillingness to be a victim Soully exceeded Buy his willfulness to be a perpetrator Better to have Willed a gun Than mirrorly get A ballad in ahead That imminently natural selection Of hapless pray Re: in force Such patriotic … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cautionary Tale, Children, Creation, Death, Evil, Gift, God, Hate, Hell, Hope, Humanity, Job, Jobs, Kindness, Life, Loss, Mind, Murder, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rationalization, Religious, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, skin in the game, Soul, Spiritual, Values, Violence, War, Willingness, Worldview
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POEM: To Abettor Portion: Owed To Math You 5:21-48
The shepherd pays dear Attention to his sheep As the sheep due Not follow suits But accompany prophets In ways safe from a peril That compound interest in the whirled As you have herd It said You shall not murder … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged algorithm, Awe, Character, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Debt, Dehumanizing, Evil, Fear, God, Grace, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Humanity, Ideology, Jesus, Joy, Life, Love, Murder, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Prophet, Reality, Religion, Solidarity, State, Wisdom, Work, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: Awe The Deference In The Whirled
He said She said You seem full of yourself Or full of something As I would Decidedly be Rather mistaken As too much for sum Than sow scarcely perceived In convenient lacking A peace meal Leaving hungry Or crocodile tears … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Change, Children, Control, Conventional Wisdom, Creativity, Culture, Curiosity, Environment, Experience, Freedom, God, Heart, Hope, Humility, Life, Mind, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rules, Soul, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Wisdom
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POEM: More of the Sane
Going through life Various docks said You are just Going through a phrase And heeling Wood be Yores soon Enough Finally cured Of awe That is Green With envy Of what might Passably be More of the sane This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Creation, Envy, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Gift, God, Image, Insanity, Life, Love, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Rage, Recycling, Respect, Risk, Science, Security, Status, Status Quo, Truth, Willingness, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Her Beatify Regime
She offered her life for others Occupying the known and unknown In a humanity so rare As a piece of raw flesh Nourishing friend and faux akin Wear life and dead meet Sow mysteriously Anew humanity Becoming In awe weighs … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Beauty, Children, Creation, Cruelty, Death, Domination, Evil, Experience, Future, Grace, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Nonviolent, Ode, Present, Secrets, Surprises, Time, Transcendent, Virtue, Wisdom
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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: Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s)
Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s) Welcome to the hood A fort of freedom Billed upon violence Up in arms With billions in cache Yet what remains Unexplained Bodies of evidence About faces Ambushed from deep within Sow unlike The enemy … Continue reading
POEM: Razz Putin: Owed to Ukraine
As things Go south And wiled west Stupefying as some razz Putin What due we have Hear A good ol’ boy Re-siding in backcountry Rushin’ cross Too bear An unsettling black see A lynch pin for his sue veneer pogram … Continue reading
POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
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