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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: The Future, The Passed
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- POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
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- POEM: Net Zeroed
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Tag Archives: Humor
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: Dammed Hope
This poem employs a metaphor of a remote mountain lake brimming with hope, exasperatingly difficult to access, only to be topped with an even more secluded mountain valley hiding away awe of the lost senses of humor of uncounted folks. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Depression, Experience, Hope, Humor, Joke, Titanic
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POEM: Dyslexic Write Wringer
Dyslexic Write Wringer In a whack and blight world Any dyslexic can tell you A right winger Is a white ringer Only as an adult did I realize that I am mildly dyslexic. I have to intentionally work every time … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Dyslexia, Equality, Experience, Funny, Gift, Hate, Humor, Learning, Love, Meaning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Racism, Relationships, Responsibility, Time, White Supremacy, Work
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RAMBO JESUS CARTOON: Will of Rambo Jesus Revealed – Protect The Fodder-land
I’ve always been dumbstruck how Christians so easily justify violence, especially since there is so little in the Gospels that can be fodder for envisioning a violence-advocating Jesus. Violence always strikes me as a deathly perilous game of “means” and … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Free Stuff, Peace, Political Cartoons
Tagged Acceptance, Cartoon, Christianity, Compassion, Conflict, Funny, Heart, Humor, Jesus, Parodies, Religion, Religious, Satire, Violence, War
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A Spiritual Autobiography
I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group. While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Gay, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anxiety, Art, Authority, Beautiful, Bible, Blessed, Buddhism, Business, Catholic, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Disobedience, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Crude, Death, Diversity, Draft Registration, Environment, Events, Experience, Faith, Family, Food, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Hope, Humor, Irreverence, Jester, Job, Journey, Justice, Kids, Law, leadership, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, Mennonite, Military, Mind, Mom, Money, Mystic, Nutrition, Obedience, Pacifism, Pastor, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Political, Poor, Poverty, Powers that be, Prayer, President, Public Health, Religious, Reverence, Science, Security, Serenity, Social Justice, Spiritual, Stewardship, Success, Theology, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Vegetarianism, War, Work, World Hunger, Worship, Zen
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FREE POSTER: Trump Crackpot Calling Kettle Black – “Special Counsel Mueller has conflicts of interest!!”
President Trump is a crackpot. Donald Trump spouts his hot steam incoherently, burning everyone around him. Of coarse, this crackpot is made of pure irony. This week he spouted off about special counsel Robert Mueller allegedly having conflicts of interest … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Donald Trump, free poster, Free Posters, Humor, Irony, Political, President, Projection, Satire
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BIGGEST. WITCH HUNT. EVER.
Donald Trump’s full employment program for comedians is in full swing. Perhaps the only weakness in this full employment program for comedians is that Donald Trump is a master of self-parody. So, sometimes, to trump the master, you have to … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political Cartoons
Tagged Donald Trump, Employment, Farce, Funny, Humor, Image
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POEM: Tickling God’s Whiskers
He thought Too himself More or less THAT would tickle God’s whiskers Which was particularly funny Since God has no whiskers Un-less That is God is right Under your knows This short poem plays with the notion that God is … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Funny, God, Humor, Joke, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: Lost And Found
Sum wear Long the weigh Countless souls Lost Their sense of humor Only too end up Way to Sirius Occupying that eternal box Under the counter Only willing To pass it long To whom sow ever Claims it for their … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Cynicism, Experience, Freedom, Funny, Hope, Humor, Joy, Life, Poetry, Reality, Rich, Short Poems, Suffering, Surreal, Time, Trust
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POEM: Anew Page Delivering
I am Subject too The very inquisition Wanting too a void Axing the quest in Who would halve me Believe Know One Wrote The book In my heart Anything but stone Nothing accept Throwing multifarious dirt At clay feat As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Attitude, Awe, Dreams, Epistemology, Experience, God, Heart, Hell, Holy, Humor, Life, Nature, Optimism, Philosophical, Philosophy, Playfulness, Poetry, Skepticism, Soul, Truth, Wisdom
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PALESTINIAN JEW JESUS: Yahoo Netanyahu
This first in a potential series of Palestinian Jew Jesus comics was inspired by the latest insanity of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In his continuing gross caricature of Israeli domination over Palestinians, he one day claims that Palestine doesn’t even … Continue reading
POEM: Bell of the Bawl: Owed To Gaia
An ocean of salty water rises From the cries unheard Submerging from the wounds of the body politic Stupefied in the face of enduring smarts Delugings egressing from a tsunami of 100% proof And in the offing Will we sea … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Awe, Change, Climate Change, Humanity, Humor, Image, Mother Earth, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Stewardship, Sustainable
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POEM: Seriously?!
The Zen master was nearly Finished with his instruction When he got to non-seriousness I was greatly relieved For I was taking nothing He was saying Seriously This short poem gets at one of the great paradoxes of enlightened spirituality: … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Blessed, Buddhist, Compassion, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Cynical, Disease, Enlightenment, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideology, Joke, Life, Logic, Materialism, Materialist, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Paradoxes, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rules, Sacred, Science, Short Poems, Spiritual, Spirituality, Tao, Theology, Time, Transcendence, Transcendent, Zen
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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: The Game of Life
One day I realized The game of life And going back In the box Only to find The rules had been lost Long a go And still The game goes on This short poem plays with the notion that life … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Attitude, Authority, Awe, Buddhism, Change, Character, China, Consciousness, Courage, Creativity, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Foolish, Freedom, God, Greed, Hate, Hope, Humor, Hypocrisy, Idealism, Insanity, Institutionalize, Irreverence, Joy, Life, Love, Militarism, Mind, Modern, Obedience, Pacifism, Play, Playfulness, Political, President, Psychology, Questioning, Rage, Reality, Religion, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rhetoric, Rich, Rules, Sacred, Sincerity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Success, Truth, Universe, Utopia, Violence, War, Willingness, Wisdom, Zen
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POEM: Different Game
Sorry, I don’t have any bargaining chips I’m playing a different game Most of the rules that we live by are not part of our everyday consciousness. Our working assumptions become just part of the background. Much of Western civilization … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Compassion, Consciousness, Experience, Heart, Humor, Ironic, Joy, Life, Loss, Monetize, Play, Poems, Poetry, Rules, Short Poems, Success, Values, Western Civilization
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POEM: Whimsically Beat
You may beat me physically But I’ll beat you whimsically The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force. Violence is appealing to persons of low character. Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life. For … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Analogy, Character, Generosity, Humor, Life, Love, Nonviolence, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Rules, Short Poems, Universe, Violence, Whimsical, Whimsy
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