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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: Perspective
POEM: The Autobiography of Tao Rex
The opening lines Of the autobiography Of Tao Rex Alias Not Neil: Neil was a man of substance Who was not waiting For it to come into style If in the course of life He should cross Kingmakers And Job … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Capitalism, Character, Christian, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Culture, Faith, Gift, God, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Heaven, Human Rights, Humanity, Idolatry, Jewish, Job, Justice, Life, Meaning, Mind, Modern, Murder, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Productivity, Radical, Reality, Respect, Sabbath, Sacred, Spiritual, State, Tao, Transcendent, Trust, Truth, Unity, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worldview
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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: 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: It’s About Time
One day I had a dream God came to me and said Meet me tomorrow at 4:32 pm On the bench In the small park At the corner of Ashland and Collingwood Near your home You have something I want … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Christmas, Commercial, Consumption, Dream, Foolish, God, Humanity, Jesus, Joke, Modern, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Reality, Rich, Soul, Time, Wealth, Worldview
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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: Getting It Together
I see tragedy in the world Not as the enemy To be retreated from Nor as an accident Captivating my perverse stares Rather a musing These puzzling pieces Of my heart Shuttered into a million pieces In chanting invitations Entranced … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Choices, Evil, God, Healing, Heart, Hope, Idealism, Inane, leadership, Life, Muse, Musings, Nihilism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Reconciliation, State, Tao, Time
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POEM: Whimsically Beat
You may beat me physically But I’ll beat you whimsically The unbearable lightness of being calls for whimsy, not brute force. Violence is appealing to persons of low character. Whimsy is an invitation to the finer things in life. For … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Analogy, Character, Generosity, Humor, Life, Love, Nonviolence, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Rules, Short Poems, Universe, Violence, Whimsical, Whimsy
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POEM: My Indian Name
After my vision quest My shaman told me From now on My Indian name would be “Rhymes with orange” Only having never Seen an orange This short poem can be viewed as one of my more whimsical poems, or perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Experience, Job, Meaning, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prayer, Reality, Rhyme, Risk, Short Poems, Time, Universe, Whimsical
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POEM: Success Can Be Trying
She was not a success Nor was she even a failure For failure has a prerequisite Trying Not reaching The successful cobble The stones of failure So becoming The rode integral Too success Finding that success can be trying The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Balance, Creativity, Diminishing Returns, Experience, Failure, Lazy, Learning, Liberal, Life, Market, Patience, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Success, Time, Virtue, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Past, Present, Future
Past, Present, Future The past is the foundation from which we build The shoulders we stand upon The inventory of experience stored for our convenience The pool of wisdom in which we bathe The present is the current electrifying our … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Change, Consciousness, Dream, Dreams, Experience, Fear, Future, Gift, Heart, Hope, Joy, Life, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rich, Sleep, Wisdom
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POEM: Rascal
I am a rascal Of course, there are many kinds of rascals Of which sort I won’t tell That’s part of rascality Anyone who wholeheartedly embraces and explores their free will, will find a glorious unpredictability that can only be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Free Will, Mystery, Perspective, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Time, Trust
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POEM: Coincidentally
I have a lot of amazing coincidences in my life As luck would have it I don’t believe in such things This poem is intentionally ambiguous — much like much of life is ambiguous. Most people tend to bring a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Faith, Free Will, God, Hope, Image, Life, Luck, Optimism, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Universe
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POEM: Monkeys with Typewriters
If you put a hundred monkeys with typewriters in a room Would there be any way to tell That it wasn’t the Fox News copy room? This short poem is a parody of both the infinite monkey theorem and Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Blessing, Christian, Conservative, Evolution, Fox News, Meaning, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Probability, Randomness, Shakespeare, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Universe, Work
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POEM: Tracing Humanity
Tracing Humanity They say that You can tell A lot About a person By what they do This, of course, is on track Still, there is a better weigh The difference between animals and humans That which earthly scales can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Authority, Balance, Character, Choices, Control, Conundrum, Ethics, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Harmony, Heart, Humanity, Integrity, Kids, Life, Logic, Moral, Morality, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Psychology, Reality, Rebellion, Sacred, Secrets, Serenity, Skepticism, Spiritual, Spirituality, Truth, Worldview
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