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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: Awe is Not Lost
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- POEM: The Future, The Passed
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Tag Archives: God
POEM: Where The Win Blows
He axed me What are your demands Other than justice Or saving life? Claiming that We must shed light On just said Shady distinctions I mirrorly pronounced That the win blows And we no knot wear Such goest In this … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Change, Compromise, Courage, Democracy, Faith, Genius, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Ideals, Justice, Life, Mind, Occupy Wall Street, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Privilege, Solidarity, Soul, Wall Street, Wisdom
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POEM: Not Buying Heaven or Hell
Being not tempted Buy heaven or hell I yearn my keep From the love unearth I like epic themes, such as heaven and hell. Nonetheless, I find the carrot of heaven or the stick of hell to be a distraction … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynical, Death, Evolution, Experience, Family, God, Grace, Heaven, Hell, Human Race, Humanity, Imagination, Intellect, Life, Love, Modern, Murder, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Redemption, Short Poems
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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self
In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Change, Denial, Events, Experience, Fear, Gandhi, God, Hate, Heart, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Love, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, Psychology, Reactionary, Reality, Rebellion, Resistance, Rich, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Success, Temptation, Time, Transcendent, Violence, Voting
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POEM: Nothing New Under The Sun
There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Disease, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Fear, Foolish, Freedom, Generosity, God, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Heart, Humanity, Job, Liberal, Life, Market, Meaning, Money, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Religion, Respect, Scarcity, Security, Silence, Sleep, Status, Suffering, Worldview
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POEM: In Possibility Incarnate
Alex created A work of art And Another Each infinitely improbable In possibility incarnate Bound only By certain desire One in many This poem is a mini-manifesto on art and the artistic process; hopefully, inducing some inspiration and incarnating some … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awareness, Beautiful, Change, Character, Existential, Experience, Freedom, Gender, God, Heart, Inspiration, Life, Manifesto, masculinity, Meaning, Passion, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Religion, Self-Awareness, Work
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POEM: His Hole Life
His hole life He refused to get carried away Keeping his emotions in check A promissory note Just enough to cover his pallbearers A noteworthy life, one that is lived wholeheartedly, is not without passion. Life: it’s all in the … Continue reading
POEM: Rare Prayer
I found myself In rare prayer A genus reserved for Mother’s ilk Only doing what Kin be done In udder neglect Of that long a go Cached in Fore more sensible weighs Now wholly saved For foxholes The mass Of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Awe, Compromise, Creation, Dream, Dreams, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Future, God, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Hope, Hubris, Insecurities, Journey, Lazy, Life, Loss, Meaning, Mind, Mourning, Mystic, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Reality, Religion, Soul, Spiritual, Tar Sands, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: Capitalism Perfected
Capitalism perfected Wear every won Cells their soul And when Every body No’s that They have A fare price For dreams fabricated And nightmares awoken This poem’s title has a misleading title which implies that capitalism can be perfected. The twist … Continue reading
POEM: A Full Life
Charlie’s life was full Every available space laden to wrest His productivity well suited To his interests Taxidermy and robotics This short poem offers a challenge to what it means to have a full life in modern Western civilization, where … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Anxiety, Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Capitalism, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Experience, God, Hope, Image, Inane, Job, Labor, Life, Modern, Nature, Perspective, Productivity, Questioning, Revolution, Revolutionary, Silence, Suffering, Tao, Vocation, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Quiet the View
Hope Was Present On the horizon South East West North into the fabric of existence Be not afraid Weather Looking up Looking down Such peek experiences Are awe ways just Round the corner I haven’t published a poem in a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Faith, Family, Fear, God, Hope, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Life, Love, Mind, Mom, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Present, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Big Bang Burrito®
Under a first rate inquisition I mussed a test I don’t know If God Can make A bean burrito so big That God can’t Eat it Such a peerless quest in May be Scorn points with sum To be little … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Authority, Curiosity, Employment, Experience, God, Image, Jewish, Joke, Mind, Mock, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Questions, Religion, Spiritual, Spirituality, Stupid, Time, Universe
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POEM: Albatross Necklace Futures
I stared at the world I could have built Had I Grasped more Farce fully A stock pile Awe but reaching Heaven Falling short Of mature stature Leaving behind Child’s play The ripe now And not trading in Futures Of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Ancient, Awe, Bible, Blessed, Choices, Christian, Christianity, Compassion, Courage, Evil, Faith, Farce, Future, God, Heaven, Hubris, Humanity, Ideology, Idolatry, Image, Irony, Islam, Life, Love, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, People of The Book, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religious, Respect, Responsibility, Sacred, Science, Society, Spiritual, Status, Technology, Time, Trust, Truth, Values, Vanity, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: Suffering Artists
I heard that Artists are supposed to suffer For their work No matter how hard Beaten Their head against a wall So trying I have failed Miserably Only finding my work Adore I am through And not Well Done I … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Art, Control, Detachment, Experience, God, Joy, Justice, Lazy, Life, Living Simply, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Social Justice, Suffering, Values, Work
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POEM: Needling a Haystack
The stockpiles of human knowledge grow exponentially And wisdom, like needling a haystack Says, “What the hay?!” Finding better questions is where it’s at Not how fast you can shovel it Nor how big your pitchfork is Rather what thread … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Argument, Arrogance, Attitude, Character, Curiosity, Cynicism, Facts, Faith, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Generosity, God, Humility, Ideology, Intellect, Kindness, Meaning, Militant, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Power, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Reverence, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Transcendent, Trust, Unity, Wisdom
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POEM: God Gets a Bad Wrap
God gets a bad wrap As do men Gloom Over Rite and wrong Babies borne of bathwater Throne buy themselves Like clay Giving rise To the pitter potter of little feats And inconceivable images Speaking out laud In a class … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Authority, Awe, Blessed, Character, Curiosity, Denial, Einstein, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Faith, God, Grace, Guns, Hubris, Humanity, Impersonal, Intellect, Ironic, Justice, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Mystical, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Pride, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Rich, Silence, Simplicity, Skepticism, Spiritual, State, Transcendence, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: Mental Health Café
In the mental health café Most of us just order the usual The anxiety du jour A small mixed salad of worries With a little resentment on the side For many, anxiety is the norm. Anxiety seems to propel life … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Anxiety, Authority, Conundrum, Existential, Fear, God, Greed, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Resentment, Sartre, Selfish, Short Poems, State
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