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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: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
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- POEM: King of the Hill
- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
- POEM: Wiled Fires
- POEM: Progress
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- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
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Tag Archives: Militant
POEM: God’s Perish
I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Needling a Haystack
The stockpiles of human knowledge grow exponentially And wisdom, like needling a haystack Says, “What the hay?!” Finding better questions is where it’s at Not how fast you can shovel it Nor how big your pitchfork is Rather what thread … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Argument, Arrogance, Attitude, Character, Curiosity, Cynicism, Facts, Faith, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Generosity, God, Humility, Ideology, Intellect, Kindness, Meaning, Militant, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Power, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Reverence, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Transcendent, Trust, Unity, Wisdom
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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
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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: Inexplicably Wonderful
The gift of life Is quite inexplicably wonderful But fear not Teams of scientists Are working Around the clock To redress this problem Skepticism has its limits. In practice, I am a skeptic of much skepticism. Life is wonderful. The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cynical, Cynicism, Disease, Fear, Gift, Gratitude, Heaven, Irony, Life, Meaning, Militant, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Religion, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Time, Work
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POEM: Pulling a Steckler
Pulling a Steckler Steckler was the type of guy Who would ruin The fun Of magic tricks Enjoyed by friends By revealing their mechanics Partly to annoy Mostly because he could His routine was so common His act was named … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Character, Defense, Heart, Logic, Militant, Mind, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Ode, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Serendipity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Transcendent
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POEM: By No Means Necessary
By No Means Necessary When the strident are Up in arms Staking their claims By any means necessary May such a battlefield Arouse patience strewn A bout Of faith Inciting our most gratuitous hopes By any kinds possible The prison … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Community, Compulsion, Cynical, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Kindness, Life, Militant, Moral, Morality, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Present, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, skin in the game
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POEM: I am
The other day I got kicked out Of an atheist’s club Told in no uncertain terms There is science And no other! And I am left To wonder Wow, where did that come from?! I was raised A Christian A … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheist, Attitude, Buddhism, Christian, Compassion, Conventional Wisdom, Counter-Cultural, Death, Einstein, Experience, Fundamentalism, Gandhi, God, Gratitude, Hindu, Jesus, Jewish, Job, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Militant, Muslim, Muslims, Palestinian, Philosophical, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Religion, Science, Sikh, Spiritual, Spirituality, Suffering, Theology, Universe
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