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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: Gratitude
POEM: Watery Grave
This is a poem about overwhelming gratitude in a world of constant change and great loss. Gratitude is perhaps the best antidote to resentments. Still, even if one lets go of resentments, one often needs to say goodbye to whatever … Continue reading
LOVE POEM: The Her and Now
The Her and Now Her gentle generosity Levels a see of petty lacks Her abundant kindness Overwhelms any insecurity Her abiding faith Shrinks fear two size Her steadfast patience Outlasts wistful worries Her joy Outshines any mourn Her bounding gratitude … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Awe, Consumption, Faith, Fear, Generosity, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Kindness, Life, Love, Love Poems, Patience, Poet, Poetry, Soul, Valentine
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POEM: God’s Lazy As
God’s Lazy As Thanks for nudging me From oblivion In too existence A billion years Of Sundays Ought too due Accept fore sustaining me Every nanosecond What have you Done form me Lately I find a deep source of gratitude … Continue reading
POLITICAL POEM: The Whole Damn Nation
Oh no No no A nation divided And so so partial to the whirled As who elect Who to rule Over US The select select Culled before we can even vote In the worst OKs scenario Effaced with know choice … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Citizens, Courage, Debt, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dream, Dreams, Freedom, Gratitude, Harmony, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, Imperialism, Justice, Media, Mother Earth, National, Nature, Ode, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, State, Third Party, Unity, Vocation, Voting, Wealth
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POEM: Hardily A Vacation
She was on Vocation Delving into the wildness The better part of reality Unseen in noonday Or the shadowy bosom of the human heart To gather presence Without plundering And only after the day’s calling With singular peering Return dumb … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Gratitude, Heart, Joy, Life, Play, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Simplicity, Vocation
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POEM: Life As A Breeze
Life peers to me As a gentle breeze With fragrant harmonies In the tenderest victories Know longer bought a bout by yielding hope Prospecting in rock Dead set, vane certainties Or coarse inclinations While a sole breath moves through me … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Character, Cynical, Cynicism, Generosity, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Skepticism, Success, Time, Willingness
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POEM: Beauty Us Aging
There is a beauty In aging A reservoir Of singular moments And glistening years In ignorance passed Belying youth In wrinkled knows At untaut skin In the game Wear even The future rests Just In time As quiet A scene … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Awe, Beauty, Blessing, Experience, Future, Grace, Gratitude, Learning, Life, Loss, Poems, Poetry, Time, Wisdom
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POEM: My Proffered Busyness
My proffered busyness Is riding poetry Wherever It takes me And even as sow many Times come a bout The heist spot in the whirled Strong-armed by incoming Dealing with lives steel As sell sum Pilfer everything As if Following … Continue reading
POEM: A Ledged Fall
The leaf let go Releasing awe that had given it life In what could have bin A swan dive Or a butterfly prancing But it was doing its own thing Lining up for know one Little did it no But … Continue reading
POEM: Unfare
Weighter Truth be tolled Whoever’s pain the bill I’d like a reseat At the table This poem addresses the truism that life is not fair. I have spent most of my life and part of most days working to address … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Citizens, Consumption, Creation, Disenfranchised, Domination, Economic, Equality, Female, Gratitude, Humanity, Justice, LGBT, Life, Patriarchy, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Present, Privilege, Respect, Short Poems, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Society, Solidarity, Truth, Work
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POEM: Inspiring Life Itself
Hear I am My life Unmeasured By awe but Smiles And ours alone A forum of love Only known by agape Sometimes taken as dope And every sow often Be held as a parent Breathlessness Be gotten heir Inspiring life … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Creation, Dancing, Experience, Gratitude, Humanity, Life, Love, Market, Nature, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Skepticism
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POEM: Gimps of Heaven
To the skies lifted The lairs of heaven unfold In speechless beauty That would deify description My eyes and hands Razed freely Embracing awe That heaven was packing In mirror seconds To be Thanking That God Of the quick And … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Experience, God, Grace, Gratitude, Heaven, Image, Life, Poems, Poetry, Present, Soul
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POEM: The World’s Shortest Meditation
Exhale Meditate on Mother Nature Asking only What have you done for me lately? Meditation is difficult. Meditation is exponentially more difficult for each additional minute attempted. The chattering monkeys of the mind interrupt accessing the sacred silence offered by … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Control, Creation, Experience, God, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meditation, Mind, mother nature, Mystery, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Sacred, Short Poems, Silence, Skepticism, Society, Status, Status Quo
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POEM: And Love Comes, However Inconceivably
There I stood I was in That not so thin line Between getting More than I could ask for And more than I bargained for The distinction of gratitude Or the convergence of thieves Still born Of one accord I … Continue reading
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: Just Desserts
I had a dream Where we lived In a world Where everyone got What they deserved I woke up And was pleased To recollect We receive More than we deserve This short poem is about grace. In more tight-fisted moments, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Consciousness, Dream, Evil, Experience, Fear, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Ironic, Jesus, Justice, Life, Moral, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Prophet, Punishment, Reality, Short Poems
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