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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: Nature
POEM: Evolution of a Writer
Evolution of a Writer You have evolved into quite a writer Could you write something for my company? He solicited Presumably thinking I was still into monkey business Not even grasping I was clearly out of my tree This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Business, Commercial, Compromise, Creativity, Darwin, Depression, Evolution, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Future, Humanity, Inspiration, Ironic, Job, Joy, Life, Logic, Market, Materialist, Meaning, Money, Nature, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Present, Questions, Reality, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Sex, Simplicity, Society, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent, Truth, Vocation, Work, Worldview
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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: Twins
Chris and Pat were like twins Only he was more so This short poem uses ambiguous pronouns and unisex names to maximize the possibilities of interpretation. The underlying twist is that if two people are alike, can one be more … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Nature, Reality, Sincerity, Superficial, Wisdom
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POEM: Less Than Eternal Question
The Rev. Medley Had risen To the highest position He would ever It was only down from there An awe too common Occupational hazard Of moderate irony And accumulating lessens Just falling short Of making one cross Facing that less … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Buddhist, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Elite, Faith, Fear, God, Irony, Jesus, Joke, leadership, Life, Living Simply, Living Wage, Materialism, Meaning, Meditation, Modern, Murder, Nature, Power, Questions, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, Truth, Wealth, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: Owed to XL
Owed to XL Something irresistible Drug from Canada That must be some wick-ed shit! What the “eh” For the land of the free to be Sold to the highest Bitter Everything must go! “It’s going to happen anyway” A juggernaut … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Heart, leadership, Life, Moral, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Prison, Responsibility, State, Tar Sands, Work
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POEM: As The Tao Plunges
As The Tao Plunges I seek boundless horizons Beyond what can be billed What you can have Fore walls No bull work A retainer for passable living A cistern to dammed dreams Reining upon you Only knot to be brothered … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Advertising, America, Awe, Balance, Beautiful, Celebrity, Confucianism, Creation, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Harmony, Heart, History, Humanity, Identity, Image, Life, Logic, Mind, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Propriety, Questions, Reality, Risk, Rules, Sociopathy, Superficial, Tao, Time, timeless question, Vegetarianism, Western Civilization, Work, Workplace
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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: If I Were King
If I were king of the world My first official act Would be to resign as king It is a common fantasy to be a powerful ruler so that you could enact your will over others. This short poem is … Continue reading
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Tagged Character, Christian, Creation, Democracy, Elite, Experience, God, Jesus, Law, Logic, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rules, Science, Selfish, Short Poems, Temptation, Worship
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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
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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: An Answer to the Problem of Evil
An Answer to the Problem of Evil One morning God woke up Before there was such a thing as morning God was well pleased with God’s self “I know that I am all that!” In fact, the only thing better … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Balance, Enlightenment, Events, Evil, Experience, Gift, God, Grace, Hope, Humility, Ironic, Learning, Life, Loss, Meaning, Mourning, Nature, Perspective, Philosophical, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Redemption, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Spiritual, Transcendence, Transcendent, Wisdom
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POEM: Civilization
Dogs pee to mark their territory Humans build walls This is called civilization There are up sides and down sides to civilization. Western civilization shares at least one thing in common with canines: they both demarcate their territory by the … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Awareness, Balance, Control, Culture, Environment, Evolution, Extinction, Harmony, Human Nature, Human Race, Humanity, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Recycling, Short Poems, Technology, Temptation, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Secrets Lie
Secrets lie At the heart of US The endless wore On tear Never skipping A beating As time passes US over Looking like patients ignored Collapsing under our own wait For loving our animus Is too much To bare The … Continue reading
POEM: Breathing
Thinking about breathing makes it more difficult Amazingly, and quite fortuitously, people can breathe without thinking. Breathing is something we know how to do without having to think about it. Thankfully, thousands of bodily functions fall into this category. Fortunately, … Continue reading
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Tagged Awareness, Balance, Consciousness, Control, Environment, Free Will, Gift, Harmony, Life, Meditation, Nature, One-line Poems, Poetry, Respect, Short Poems, Wisdom
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POEM: Sinking Ship
When a ship is sinking It may be wiser to follow the rats Rather than the humans That is, if you can tell the difference This Titanic poem juxtaposes the zeniths and abysses of humans, created only a little less … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crises, Experience, Foolish, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Rat Race, Short Poems, Simplicity, Titanic, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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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: Smoking Guns
Smoking Guns Gun control is their aim Bringing a bout Sad states And a stag nation Wear points are sported Big bucks are the game Triggering depression Beyond one’s cope Looking down The business end Of a gun shaking As … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Citizens, Congress, Control, Crude, Death, Depression, Dreams, Experience, Family, Firearms, Guns, Kids, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Mental Health, Mourning, Murder, Nature, Political, Public Health, Reality, Science, Sleep, State, Suicide, Women
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POEM: Author Author Original
Author Author Original Many great authors Veritable prose Composed Many glorified pages Of legends owed Epitomizing a theme Depicting perfect variations Epic anecdotes In firmity Contracted By edifices Of many stories I prefer the novelty Of a single sentence Unleashing … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Awe, Commercial, Food, Freedom, Image, Literate, Modern, Monetize, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prose, Puns, Western Civilization
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