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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: Mindfulness
BICYCLING POEM: Mother Earth And Her Cycles
Mother Earth Has her cycles Look out! Respect her cycles Don’t be a fossil fool Ride that bike! Powered by living humans Not dead relics Exorcise those fossils, fool! Ride that bike! Get that warm feeling And cool breeze The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bicycling, Gift, Joy, Love, Mindfulness, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Solidarity, Virtue
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POEM: Sow Much For Multi-tsking
Hello Hello People looking down As electronic devices Looking up Over hear Over their Owned buy virtual realty Totally Sum wear Ails Hole heartedly Parting from wholly presence How due they pay A tension So what? Sow what? Driving us … Continue reading
POEM: Annoys Pollution
Every wear but hear Beeping phones And nobody at home Impossible to a tone Even with wringing personally With poor timing Watching volumes A little too lewd Mindless won And awe the artless With every bell and whistle Ears unplugged … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Art, Awe, Busyness, Civil Disobedience, Employment, Freedom, Funny, Inane, Life, Logic, Mind, Mindfulness, Modern, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pollution, Poor, Progress, Religion, Responsibility, Silence, Spiritual, Western Civilization, Zen
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POEM: Paying In Attention – Owed To Mind Fullness
I under stand You are on Some kind of in Stall meant plan As long As you still Pay attention In do time I’ll pay for such in deference Hopefully not the final time Having been Pre-disposed In the passed … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Consciousness, Disease, Empathy, Evil, Evolution, Experience, History, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Kindness, Life, Love, Luck, Mind, Mindfulness, Poems, Political, Power, Present, Pride, Privilege, Projection, Proverb, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Sacred, Science, Self-Awareness, Success, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, Worldview
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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: Near Life Experience
A few years back he had a near life experience It might as well have been A disaster movie Stream of consciousness meets tsunami of denial This funny little poem addresses a sort of reverse polarity of near death experiences. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Character, Consciousness, Culture, Death, Denial, Experience, Funny, Lazy, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Selfish, Short Poems
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POEM: Hope Inflamed
Hope Inflamed Hope inflamed That which cannot be Put out Will consume every individual Testing their mettle Forging in feeleds Just discovered From a crucible witch lies unknown Alloys forever Stronger than any metal Purely a loan No matter How … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Death, Denial, Dystopia, Enemies, Enlightenment, Existential, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Gandhi, Hope, Jesus, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Patriotism, Poems, Power, Powers that be, Protest Poetry, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Soul, State, Transcendent, Trust, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Paying Attention
Are you too broke to pay attention? This one-line poem most directly seeks to de-link material wealth from perhaps the greatest tool available to humans: consciousness, or mindfulness. Being able to access mindfulness, regardless of wealth, status, or “worldly” power, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Compassion, Consciousness, Empathy, Enlightenment, Equality, God, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Humility, Justice, Life, Mindfulness, One-line Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Short Poems, Status, Subjectivity, Suffering, Wealth
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POEM: Work Week
One day I didn’t feel like going to work Some people call them weekdays This one goes out to all of you who feel, chronically and/or acutely, that going to work is, well…work. I wouldn’t mind being the guy who … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Class Warfare, Culture, Dream, Economic, Experience, Freedom, God, Greed, Hindu, Jewish, Jobs, Journey, Karma, Learning, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Money, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Sabbath, Security, Short Poems, Spiritual, Wealth, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: Own Worst Enemy
One day I realized that I am my own worst enemy And as it turns out, I am a formidable foe Self-awareness seems to key to one’s own progress. This short poem offers a backhanded compliment to oneself as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, Consciousness, Enemies, Mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Pyschology, Self-Awareness, Self-Discovery, Short Poems, Subjectivity
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POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off
POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off Have you ever looked a chicken in the eyes? Most of us city folk probably never have Where are you? Chickens can look quite different in the city Just the same … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Busyness, Consciousness, Crazy, Culture, Death, Expediency, Funny, Life, Mindfulness, Poems, Present, Puns, Relationships, Self-Discovery, Solidarity, Western Civilization
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POEM: Commercial Interruption
We interrupt this commercial Now that wasn’t so hard Or was it? How many times a day is our consciousness breached by some form of commercial interruption? Way too many times! I consider this commercial assault a major form of … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, Cathartic, Commercial, Consciousness, Consumerism, Consumption, Control, Culture, Farce, Joy, Life, Living Simply, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Questioning, Short Poems, State, Vanity, Violence, Work
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