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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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Tag Archives: God
POEM: Revolutions Violent
Revolutions Violent Any revolution That must dispose of enemies Remains Mirrorly A turning Of the tables Going round Not with standing How grate thou Art And wore A game that can only Play you Fraught with duel intentions That two-sided … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Demonization, Denial, Enemies, Evil, God, Hope, Life, Mind, Play, Poems, Poetry, Punishment, Reality, Responsibility, Revolution, Sacred, Truth, Violence, War
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POEM: Navy Yard Killings
Navy Yard Killings In these crazy times Of senseless killings Nations seek a return To sensible killings There are many levels of crazy. There are perhaps even more levels of crazy when it comes to killing. I am not surprised … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Business, Compassion, Crazy, Dream, Empathy, Family, God, Grace, Heart, History, Hope, Irony, Love, Military, Navy, Normal, Obama, Pacifism, Poems, Poet, Power, President, Projection, Reality, Short Poems, Slavery, Sleep, Status, Violence, War, Wisdom
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POEM: I Could Have Swore
I Could Have Swore Backs against the wall And faceless No name to call Wandering If anyone Ever Will get their drift Homie-less At the center A cross person Surrounded by thieves And gawkers In a sea of blindness In … Continue reading
POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Efficiency Expert
The efficiency expert asked me How many poems can I write Per hour Well, if I only Had but one hour I would guess a singular poem Western civilization seems obsessed with efficiency. Of course, high efficiency is no guarantee … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Courage, Dream, Efficiency, God, Hope, Humor, Integrity, Joke, Joy, Life, Love, Mind, Modern, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Success, Thoreau, Time, Trust, Western Civilization
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POEM: Paying Attention
Are you too broke to pay attention? This one-line poem most directly seeks to de-link material wealth from perhaps the greatest tool available to humans: consciousness, or mindfulness. Being able to access mindfulness, regardless of wealth, status, or “worldly” power, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Compassion, Consciousness, Empathy, Enlightenment, Equality, God, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Humility, Justice, Life, Mindfulness, One-line Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Short Poems, Status, Subjectivity, Suffering, Wealth
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POEM: Work Week
One day I didn’t feel like going to work Some people call them weekdays This one goes out to all of you who feel, chronically and/or acutely, that going to work is, well…work. I wouldn’t mind being the guy who … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Class Warfare, Culture, Dream, Economic, Experience, Freedom, God, Greed, Hindu, Jewish, Jobs, Journey, Karma, Learning, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Money, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Sabbath, Security, Short Poems, Spiritual, Wealth, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Pillar of the Community
I have a well-paid job I am a captain of industry I am a member of platinum circles I am a pillar of the community My name will live on On plaques And maybe a street I need not Pay … Continue reading
POEM: Lifting Fog
Lifting Fog You can’t fight city hall They are too big to fail We are too small to make a difference A mere drop in a vast sea These lies can travel through vast deserts of grief and despair Like … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Authority, Cruelty, Death, Faith, Family, Fear, Genius, God, Heaven, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Jerusalem, Jesus, Justice, Labor, Life, Mind, Nihilism, Paranoid, Patience, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Proverb, Punishment, Reality, Sacred, Spiritual, Time, Transcendent, Truth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game The gods are at war A blood sport for many The spectators are plenty Seeded at the rite and Overlooking the arena As bleachers whitewash The stain power of the players Announcers pooring over each play … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action
Tagged Accountability, Art, Awe, Courage, God, Inane, Optimism, Play, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Poor, Power, Risk, Sacrifice, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Violence, War, Worship
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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
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Ancient, Art, Authorities, Authority, Awareness, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, budgets, Capitalism, Change, Character, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Rights, Classism, Common Good, Community, Compassion, Competition, Conscience, Consumerism, Control, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Creativity, Death, Defense, Denial, Domestic Violence, Domination, Dream, Economic, Egalitarian, Enemies, Equality, Evil, Facts, Failure, Faith, Family, Fear, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Future, Gender, Gift, God, government, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Holy, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Idolatry, Image, Immorality, Impersonal, Incarnation, Inequality, Injustice, Intimacy, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Journey, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Labor, Law, leadership, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Market, Materialism, Meaning, Mercy, Militarism, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Morality, Nationalism, Nature, Nonviolence, Patience, Patriarchy, Patriotism, Perspective, Philosophy, Piety, Political, Politics, Poor, Possessions, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Prison, Privilege, Prophet, Questioning, Questions, Racism, Radical, Rage, Reality, Reconciliation, Relationships, Religious, Responsibility, Resurrection, Revolution, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Science, Security, Sexism, Society, Solidarity, Songs, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Stewardship, Success, Suffering, Temptation, Theology, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Unjust Laws, Values, Violence, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worship
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POEM: Behind a Veil
I suspect that God resides behind a veil I don’t blame others for not suspecting the same Though curiosity gets the better of me I am less forgiving to those who don’t believe in a veil
POEM: Mother-Father of Invention
Necessity is the mother of invention The father is wholly Less certain Until paternity is decided I’ll consider other innovative bastards my brothers
POEM: Faking Life and Death
If I were God I’d make it easier To fake your own death Than to fake your life Mostly because I’d like to fake my own death
POEM: She Came
She came down the street With such a scowl Such a deep… Well… One-couldn’t-imagine demeanor Her whole body Like a wrecking ball Laying waste To awe before her Everyone’s back to this wall Only hoping To escape The coming wrath … Continue reading
POEM: Divine Lover
One day I asked God What is it all about? There was only silence But with the look he gave me We’ve been lovers Ever since