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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 Problem with Violence
- POEM: In Sighting a Right
- POEM: I’d Give My Write Arm for the Sound of You
- POEM: Awe is Not Lost
- POEM: Unentitle Fight
- POEM: I a Door
- POEM: Arose
- POEM: Fallen Reign
- POEM: The Future, The Passed
- POEM: Your Fired
- POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
- POEM: Bred of Life
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Tag Archives: John Lennon
POEM: A Bout Time
A common complaint is that there is never enough time. Overbooking ourselves seems endemic. I have made an intentional effort over my life to create some space and time, allowing me to lead a less hurried and less forced life. … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged John Lennon, Life, Success, Time
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POEM: Megabus Late
The loco bus Was barely running Trafficking in creep after creep At Lake & Michigan It was sink or swim Facing too soon departed To be won or lost By foot Right, left, right, left, right, left, right Miraculously walking … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Future, God, John Lennon, Life, Poor, Serendipity, Surprises, Toledo
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POEM: Birth Day Present
On my birthday I was given As were you A time machine A way faring By lusty seconds And so moving Fates billed To hour credit Surpassing daze And weaks A sort of colander For casting generations And spirited characters … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Future, Gift, John Lennon, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Time
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POEM: Forgiving Justice
Forgiveness can no more refute The demands of justice And its claim reguarding the lost Than justice can outflank The necessity of forgiveness To open the door for peace A heart rendering choice The difference being Securing one’s house Or … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awareness, Experience, Fear, Forgiveness, Gandhi, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Injustice, John Lennon, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Present, Questions, Reality, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Short Poems
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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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POLITICAL CARTOON: Country Club Jesus – Blessed are those who exclude others for economic reasons
Country Club Jesus Speaks! Welcome to Country Club Jesus! This is the latest installment the Top Pun series of comics that run on Sundays, featuring CEO Jesus, Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, General Jesus, Comedian Jesus, and who knows … Continue reading
Posted in Political Cartoons
Tagged Blessed, Cartoon, Church, Comics, Economic, Free market, God, Jesus, John Lennon, Life, Love, Market, Money, Musings, Political, Time, Top Pun, Values
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POEM: Getting Your Ducks in a Row
I once put all my ducks in a row Only then realizing What am I doing with all these ducks?! Getting one’s ducks in a row is an idiom or metaphor that most people are familiar with, meaning that we … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Business, Busyness, Chaos, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Freedom, Future, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idioms, John Lennon, Laziness, Lazy, Learning, Life, Meaning, Mind, Objectivity, Perspective, Physics, Poet, Poetry, Productivity, Quotes, Reality, Rumi, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Simplicity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Subjectivity, Time, Universe, Work, Yogi Berra
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