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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: Passing Through Sublime Daze
I pass through Sublime daze Uninterrupted by alarms Or dread lines Clothed in a peril so frayed I am practically naked To the whirled To wit each mourn I live in that last squeeze of toothpaste And that first blush … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Grace, Happiness, Heart, Life, Lifestyle, Loss, Love, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Sacred, Serendipity, Vocation, Vulnerability
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POEM: Guarding God
He stoutly guarded God From an unruly world An unreveling creation And in such earnest He, and millions others, were Relieved of their doody Perhaps only a small relief For God above Yet for such bellow Refuse-ing To be passed … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authenticity, Authority, Christian, Christianity, Creation, Foolish, Freedom, Generosity, God, Grace, Harmony, Idolatry, Jesus, Joy, Law, Love, Materialist, Mercy, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Religion, Rules, Sacred, Spiritual, Time, Universe, Violence, War, Work
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POEM: The Right and Wrong End of a Gun
I shot Bill In the gut He stood there For a moment Seeming like a lifetime His blood flowing Like Well Freely Or Might as Well Be ‘N aRiA Souled A Bill of goods Now Kosher A salt of the … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anti-Gun, Change, Climate Change, Culture, Death, Evolution, Family, Firearms, Guns, Humanity, Incarnation, Irony, Life, Love, Modern, Musings, Paranoid, Poems, Poetry, Public Health, Security, Suicide, Terrorism, Truth, Victim Blaming, Violence, Worldview
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POEM: Her Voice
Her voice could be heard Three generations within earshot Yet the man in front of her Was two ears short of listening At times she spoke Simply to convince herself That she could Due more Then listen Wading for something … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Children, Classism, Compassion, Culture, Dehumanizing, Disenfranchised, Equality, Experience, Family, Heterosexual, Human Race, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Sex, Sexism, Society, Truth, War, Women
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3D POEM: My Twisted Uni-verse (on a Mobius Strip)
This 3D POEM, My Twisted Uni-verse, may very well be the first poem ever written to be read on a Mobius Strip, made from a plain strip of paper with a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a … Continue reading
POEM: Heaven Unearth
Heaven Unearth Place Your hand in mine And I will Skip The rest Of the whirled My feat barely Touching The ground Where heaven and earth meet Together Giving thanks For earthly existence And your heavenly Place Saying a prayer … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Dream, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Inspiration, Love, Love Poems, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prayer, Prose, Risk, Valentine
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POEM: Eying Them Apples
Eying Them Apples From his firm bed rock Of unassailable logic However earnest He couldn’t quite grasp love At home in more gossamer venues Wafting Teasingly just Out of reach Not able to pick up Love’s plucky de-meaner From afar … Continue reading
POEM: I Will Join The One, There is No Other
Alone Where is God in that? Does salvation lie in community? Wherever two or more gather In character At present will be God Therefore, I will join the one One who was left behind The one who’s going places no … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Buddhist, Character, Community, Compassion, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Enemies, Enlightenment, Faith, Genius, God, Jesus, Journey, Life, Love, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Opposites, Passion, Piety, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Present, Reactionary, Relationships, Solidarity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Status Quo, Time
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POEM: Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl Sunday Guess what I herd It’s Super Bowl™ Sabbath Quite coincidentally on Sunday And I’m not sure who’s playing who Perhaps the Cowboys and Indians Or the Lions and the Christians The eternal argument weather Its just A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Christian, Commercial, Competition, Culture, Domination, Exceptionalism, Faith, Life, Love, Money, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Sabbath, Sports, Time, War, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: I Went AWOL
One day I went AWOL A Well Ordered Life I’m not sure If anyone noticed If they did Judging me By my backside I would be too Looking forward Mirrorly suggestive Of one’s self In what might A peer A … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Counter-Cultural, Crazy, Culture, Dreams, Existential, Hell, Hope, Job, Life, Love, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possessions, Power, Prison, Reality, Risk, Sartre, Society, Status, Time, Western Civilization
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POEM: About It
About It I am helpless Though God Is more eloquent Just saying I love you And there is nothing You can do About it This poem is a tribute to human helplessness and the redeeming love of God which we … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Balance, Change, Control, Evil, Experience, God, Grace, Heart, Helplessness, Hope, Life, Love, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Vulnerability
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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: Lust Potential
Lust Potential He looked about him And saw Their cups were filled Even overflowing And still He mourned The size of their cups Years ago, I heard a description of heaven as a place where no matter the size of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Acceptance, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Envy, Experience, Fear, God, Heaven, Image, Inspiration, Jealousy, Joy, Life, Loss, Love, Mourning, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Redemption, Scarcity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Not Right in the Head
I am just Not right In the head Just left Of center Heart beats For know reason To love The mathematician, physicist and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, said, “The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.” For most of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Business, Change, Courage, Crazy, Culture, Enlightenment, Exceptionalism, Future, Heart, History, Insanity, Logic, Love, Modern, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, State, Stupid, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: A Farcical Foundation
A Farcical Foundation An abundance Of people Build Bank accounts And resumes In lieu of a better world In the face of scarcity Hoarding ourselves Leaving our shares as chump change Our resumes bankrupt In grate sell deception Talked into … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Art, Change, Culture, Experience, Foolish, Generosity, God, Happiness, Heart, Jesus, Life, Love, Modern, Monetize, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poverty, Productivity, Reality, Scarcity, Simplicity, Spiritual, Time, Values, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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Martin Luther King Day history and reflection
Martin Luther King Day is coming up on January 20, 2014. MLK Day is celebrated in the U.S. on the third Monday of every January. The first official celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a federal holiday in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Celebrations, Change, Christmas, Civil Rights, Community, Congress, Debt, Democrat, Future, government, History, Holy, Inane, Institutions, Jesus, Justice, Law, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, mlk celebration, mlk day, Monetize, National, Power, Powers that be, President, Productivity, Racism, Republican, Resistance, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Veterans, Voting, Work
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POEM: I Do What I Love
I do what I love I do what I love One of my greatest tenets of evangelism, sharing of good news, is encouraging all to follow their passions and do what they love to do. It is a form of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Insanity, Life, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Spiritual
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POEM: Writing Poetry
I like writing poetry except for the writing part Writing poetry is an art from the heart. If there is work in writing poetry, of which I don’t find much, it somehow relates to brain functioning. My favorite definition of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beautiful, Experience, Heart, Image, Inspiration, Joy, Love, Mind, Mystery, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Short Poems, Work
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