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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: Father Violence
- POEM: Breaking Up is Hard Too Due
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- POEM: Out of Place, Out of Time
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- POEM: Clerical Counter
- POEM: The Age of Know Surprise
- POEM: Courting Corruption — Owed Too Presidential Immunity
- POEM: Knot Quiet Myself
- POEM: A Day of Longing No More
- POEM: Zombie Politics
- POEM: US Verses Wee
- POEM: Woo Who
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Tag Archives: God
POEM: Outer and Inner Space
There is beauty know wear and every wear, awe at once. Outer and Inner Space I am in space Beautiful and mysterious A timeless see Beyond words I hear Only the breath of God And in the twinkle of an … Continue reading
POEM: A Wake Sleepy Aheads
This poem goes out to all nonviolent activists, particularly those who struggle with whether they make a difference or not. This poem is also a tip of the hat to this great quote: “If you think you are too small … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, God, Life, Nonviolent, Prophet, Sleep, Truth
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POEM: Clerical Counter
Religion stands in, the bind of wrapping vivifying experience. The spirit is reported to be as the wind, not knowing where it comes from and to where it goes. Still, when the spirit shows up, you will be rapt. Clerical … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, God, Religion, Silence
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POEM: Knot Quiet Myself
I find that silence speaks volumes. My greatest thoughts are humbled in silence’s presents. Listening is the better part of communication. Knot Quiet Myself Lying there I broke The silence The emptiness With thoughts a loud Notions of God Laid … Continue reading
POEM: The Beat of Exclusive Clubs
Other than for hardcore atheism, my spiritual beliefs ran the gamut, something for everyone. I am a spiritual mutt. Probably the most apt description would be “unorthodox.” I detest fundamentalism. I was raised Christian and spent most of my life … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Atheist, Christian, Christianity, Compassion, Experience, Fundamentalism, Gandhi, God, Hindu, Jesus, Justice, Life, Love, Muslim, Palestinian, Religious, Sacred, Science, Sikh, Spiritual, Suffering, Truth
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POEM: Job One
For a job I be looking… Job One My job Is to see you As God sees you Nothing more Nothing less
POEM: Rat Race Religion
This poem is a meditation on the banality of evil that arises from good people doing nothing when it comes knocking at their doorstep. This accomplice-ment is aided by a blinding enmeshment in a rat race offering, justification for ignoring … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Evil, Family, God, Hope, Humanity, Life, Meditation, Passion, Rat Race, Religion, Sacred, Security, Solidarity, War
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POEM: Redeeming Coup on Pharaohs
God has a sense of humor. Sometimes pompous, hypocritical religionists get their religion handed to them on a plate by the disenfranchised who have a gift of accessing truth in strange places, redeeming that worthless scrip of others. The lords … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christianity, Disenfranchised, Gift, God, Holy, Humor, Hypocritical, Nature, Religion, Truth
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POEM: Following A Higher Doody
Unfortunately, Christianity is too oft weaponized against our very own siblings of God. Following A Higher Doody Their those Christians Who go to church They’re those Christians Who go Too church
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christianity, Church, God
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POEM: God’s Preferential Option
I have learned that an open heart is a broken heart. A common reaction to pain, stress, or trauma is to close down as a defense mechanism. While the world has plenty of pain, stress, and trauma, a healthy response … Continue reading
POEM: As Humanity Reseeds
Here is an apocalyptic valentine, a final kiss planted. As Humanity Reseeds That final mourning We greet With a kiss A poetic rejoinder Transcendent graffiti Write on the apocalypse In a whirled that had Drunk The Kool-Aid® Even at that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, God, Humanity, Mourning, Transcendent, Valentine
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POEM: Dogged Reasoning
This a poem highlighting the barren view of life that rugged reasoning can impose on the awesome experience of consciousness. Life is much more than sterile propagation of the specious. Dogged Reasoning He wood Knot know Consciousness If he Saw … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Experience, God, Job, Life
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POEM: Seeking Haven — Deed On A Rival
Here is a poem about our nation’s recalcitrance in welcoming immigrants and refugees. Wile we use cramped legalisms to incarcerate our hearts, many speak openly in racist and violent terms. I strongly suspect that we would do better as a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Citizenship, God, Illegal, Refugees, Work
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POEM: The Run Down on Lifting Up
This poem is a call to avoid running down those who seek to lift up. The poem has a tip of the hat to Dorothy Day and her infamous quote, “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Dorothy Day, God, History, Life, Morality, Soul, Temptation
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POEM: From God Slips To My Years
Here is yet another poem about the experience of writing poems, or transcribing them from a muse. From God Slips To My Years In what manor May we discuss the whether A poet or a stenographer In plaque-able quest in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Alliterate, Awe, Experience, God, Hope, Muse, Poems, Poet
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POEM: Yours to Deicide
Wile it doesn’t make cents for some, I see humanity is one. I strongly suspect that there is only one side. Thus, in a religious sense, any won that kills other children of God is ungodly. In some sense, killing … Continue reading
POEM: God Thirst
This is a poet’s poem about the ineffable muse and singing her prays. God Thirst He was drunk In poetry An outspoken unspoken word artist And still Imbibe Hymn As well
POEM: A Queer World
This poem is about the queer reality that if there were not homophobia, I would not have been born, as my Dad is gay. Only the rejection of his sexual orientation and the societal “need” to enter a “heterosexual” marriage … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Gay, Poems
Tagged Equality, God, Hate, Heterosexual, Homophobia, Incarnation, Joke, Justice, Poetic Justice, Queer, Reality
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POEM: Still Quiet Powerful
This poem captures a funny perspective that I have on atheists. I definitely feel for people with agnostic perspectives; though I see it as a bit indecisive. On the other hand, I see atheists as carrying their certainty a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Failure, Funny, God, Job, Perspective
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POEM: True Story
Perhaps the best Dad joke ever told. True Story Won time In Bible study We were discussing the whether A human can see the face of God And live The reverend said know Buuuuttt Being made In His image According … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Bible, God, Image, Jewish, Joke, Time
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