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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: Metaphors
POEM: Infectious Hope
Hope is a blood-borne pathogen The seed of martyrs Inflaming that allergy to injustice Present in us all Infected by a singular epiphany Of friend and foe Alike I see hope as an irreducible reality in human nature. Just like … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Analogy, Awareness, Bible, Christian, Christianity, Control, Cynical, Enemies, Evil, Faith, Genius, Hate, Heaven, Hope, Human Nature, Injustice, Jesus, Life, Love, Metaphors, Metaphysics, Mystical, Nature, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Present, Psychology, Reality, Resistance, Respect, Shakespeare, Short Poems, Simplicity, Spiritual, Truth, Violence, War
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POEM: Poetic License
One day I went to get my poetic license I drove them crazy with their test at the DMV Perhaps next time I’ll try NASA This poem reminds me of the scene in the movie, “Dead Poets Society,” where the … Continue reading →
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
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Tagged Art, Balance, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Crazy, Experience, Freedom, Heart, Irony, Joy, Life, Meaning, Metaphors, Mind, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Puns, Questions, Relationships, Rhyme, Rules, Science, Short Poems, Society, Time, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Metaphors be with you
Metaphors be with you This simple one line poem which is only four words is a takeoff on the Star Wars saying, may the force be with you. Is it any surprise that one of these four words is a … Continue reading →
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
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Tagged Blessing, Love, Meaning, Metaphors, One-line Poems, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Rich, Short Poems
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POEM: Everything Reminds Me of Everything Else
Everything reminds me of everything else. This one-line poem is a quick way to get into my mind and how it works. I probably love metaphors as much as I do puns. This short poem cuts to the chase, so … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems
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Tagged Love, Metaphors, Mind, One-line Poems, Poet, Poetry, Puns, Short Poems
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POEM: WELCOME To The Corporate Person Hood
WELCOME To The Corporate Person Hood! Theirs an outside chance Say 1% Facing such a ghostly figure That passes over What sum Say billions Who could passably planet that way! Ether way The Almighty Logos Taken it To the Greek … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems
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Tagged Anti-Corporate, Capitalism, Citizens, Class Warfare, Constitution, Corporate Personhood, Democracy, Greed, History, Immorality, Job, Jobs, Life, Metaphors, Money, Morality, Move to Amend, Occupy Wall Street, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Poor, Prophet, Rich, Social Movements, State, Time, Wall Street
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POEM: To Un-Jar Your Thinking
My point is not to jar your thinking. My point is to un-jar your thinking. This two-line poem, with a simple wordplay, addresses a fundamental dichotomy that is present in much of our life that may appear so subtle that … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems
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Tagged Freedom, Genius, Life, Meaning, Metaphors, Musings, Mystical, Paradoxes, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Puns, Short Poems, Transcendence
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POEM: Those who take things literally are often thieves.
ONE-LINE POEM: Those who take things literally are often thieves. Here it is folks, my first one-line poem! Quite appropriately, this short poem is a poem about poems, as well as a poem dealing directly and simply with social and … Continue reading →
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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Tagged Capitalism, Compassion, Fear, Free Will, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Imperialism, Insanity, Inspiration, Ironic, Irony, Life, Love, Materialism, Meaning, Mercy, Metaphors, Mind, Modern, Money, Musings, Objectivity, One-line Poems, Philosophical, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Puns, Reality, Rich, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Soul, Spiritual, Subjectivity, Surreal, Transcendence, Universe, Vanity, War, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Toddling Western Civilization
Have you ever seen a toddler who can barely walk Stumbling forward, running to not fall Deliriously proud of oneself This may be Western civilization This short poem is a metaphor for Western civilization. For any of us who have … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anxiety, Arrogance, Awareness, Blessed, Business, Capitalism, Conundrum, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Efficiency, Experience, Failure, Fear, Gandhi, Humanity, Image, Impersonal, Justice, Learning, Life, Materialism, Meaning, Metaphors, Mind, Modern, Perfectionism, Philosophical, Poems, Poetic Justice, Present, Self-Awareness, Short Poems, State, Time, Values, Western Civilization
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