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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: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
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- POEM: In Summer-y
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Tag Archives: Food
POEM: Reining In Global Warning
The economy was Humming Having change Their tune Given The overabundance Of hot water And cell a-steam Showering down Hour earthly reign In the scheme of things In a call amity Of biblical portions They had everything Save the earth … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Capitalism, Change, Consumption, Economy, Environment, Extinction, Food, Job, Love, Money, Mother Earth, Mourning, Poems, Poetry
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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POEM: A Royal Buzzkill
Bee The change That you wish In the whirled Too see O Mother Earth Undertaking Men o’ pause In-fertility rite As nature fecund wanes A roil buzzkill Soon with death teeming Wear is thy sting Extincting that human race Soully … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Climate Change, Consumption, Culture, Death, Defense, Denial, Disease, Diversity, Domination, Einstein, Environment, Environmental, Evolution, Extinction, Food, Harmony, Human Race, Life, Loss, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Sustainable
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POEM: My Brand of Value
My brand value Has plummeted recently So says sum consultant As some seer into my pristine hide Speaking a bout Clashing symbols In the mark it place Some limbic game how logo Soliciting every thing That can be taut As … 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: 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: 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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POEM: Compassion Hoard
I may not have bread And I can afford justice My feet may be bare And still I have wings unseen A fly on the wall Reflecting on wear thou art I cons A mass Pining for eternity I see … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Control, Dream, Dreams, Experience, Faith, Fear, Food, Future, Generosity, God, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Injustice, Ironic, Irony, Journey, Joy, Justice, Love, Meaning, Mercy, Mind, Mystery, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Power, Present, Prison, Religion, Religious, Rich, Sacred, Silence, Songs, Status, Success, Time, Wealth
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POEM: Hungering for Answers
Hungering for Answers We should stay the course To turn the corner To see the light At the end of the tunnel Yet long-term solutions For the hungry Are difficult to stomach As for those who have Empty hearts Eatin’ … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Charity, Children, Compassion, Control, Experience, Food, Heart, Learning, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Responsibility, Serendipity, Short Poems, War, Wealth
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POEM: Chapter 58 – Isaiah
Chapter 58 – Isaiah Isaiah was a man A kind of a man More generous than his wealth Untouchable by another’s profits With a frugality beyond any poverty He was a gentle man With a purposefulness typically beyond words Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Ancient, Bible, Change, Civil Disobedience, Courage, Cruelty, Economic, Evil, Faith, Food, Freedom, God, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Injustice, Irony, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Modern, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Ode, Oppression, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Present, Prison, Quotes, Rebellion, Rich, Sabbath, Social Justice, Time, Violence, War, Wealth, Work
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POEM: BUCKET BRIGADE – Owed to Karen Krause
BUCKET BRIGADE Owed to Karen Krause While some pine That faith The size of a mustard seed Can move mountains Like magic Perhaps with a wrinkle of their knows Wiser women know How mountains move Bucket by bucket By outstretched … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems
Tagged Awe, Courage, Death, Experience, Faith, Food, Gift, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Humility, Injustice, Jesus, Jobs, Jobs with Justice, Justice, Life, Meaning, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Powers that be, Public Health, Social Justice, Time, Toledo, Truth, Women, Work
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POEM: Author Author Original
Author Author Original Many great authors Veritable prose Composed Many glorified pages Of legends owed Epitomizing a theme Depicting perfect variations Epic anecdotes In firmity Contracted By edifices Of many stories I prefer the novelty Of a single sentence Unleashing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Commercial, Food, Freedom, Image, Literate, Modern, Monetize, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prose, Puns, Western Civilization
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POEM: Tasting God
Tasting God I almost tasted God In what turned out To be A fine guacamole A common mistake Well worth repeating I find eating guacamole a religious experience. As family legend has it, when we lived in Haiti when I … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Family, Food, God, Haiti, Joy, Life, Mom, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Religious, Short Poems
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POEM: Ad Dulled State
Ad Dulled State Well come To this ad dulled state What will it take To see the light Tell a vision Divining every yen Razing the whys Jacking up All that meters Taxi’ing every quarter our Static being drug Swallowing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Commercial, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Food, Freedom, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Pop Culture, Power, Rage, State, Status, Technology, Titanic, Truth, Virtue
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POEM: Taken In
Taken In What powerful minds Can wrap themselves around Pails in comparison To the sea of mysteries Taken in By an open heart Keys to a door unlocked Incite weighting A mountain of presents Countless Un-rapt By lesser mines Fuels … Continue reading
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
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