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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: Playfulness
POEM: On Acid
This poem is a playful, satirical takedown of the unromantic notion of sexual activity, particularly reproduction, as some Darwinian imperative. I am a romantic who believes that there is more than mere chemistry to human relationships and mating. On Acid … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Playfulness, Relationships, Romantic
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POEM: God’s Tell
God’s Tell Is it just Another day Like any other Inner changeable Who could tell? And there I was Mining my own busyness When it came to pass God winked at me I timidly wavered back Yet setting off A … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Awe, Busyness, God, Journey, Justice, Nature, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Solidarity, Work
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POEM: Anew Page Delivering
I am Subject too The very inquisition Wanting too a void Axing the quest in Who would halve me Believe Know One Wrote The book In my heart Anything but stone Nothing accept Throwing multifarious dirt At clay feat As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Attitude, Awe, Dreams, Epistemology, Experience, God, Heart, Hell, Holy, Humor, Life, Nature, Optimism, Philosophical, Philosophy, Playfulness, Poetry, Skepticism, Soul, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Succumb Lame Less
He suffered Multiple strokes Of genius Rendering him Unable Not To speak Out With what Was in Left and right Both lame All to gather disarmed In infancy motions Red and blue Leaving won Marooned Feeling peaked In a fervorish … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Awe, Community, Death, Einstein, Genius, Ideology, Intellect, Joy, Ode, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Truth
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POEM: Awe The Deference In The Whirled
He said She said You seem full of yourself Or full of something As I would Decidedly be Rather mistaken As too much for sum Than sow scarcely perceived In convenient lacking A peace meal Leaving hungry Or crocodile tears … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Change, Children, Control, Conventional Wisdom, Creativity, Culture, Curiosity, Environment, Experience, Freedom, God, Heart, Hope, Humility, Life, Mind, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rules, Soul, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Wisdom
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POEM: Holey Toledo – Owed to Potholes
Holey Toledo! Look at my car, ma! Wholly swallowed As she flew into the pothole A Thelma and Louise moment At the end of a bad day Only without a friend Beside herself #%*?&^$#! Having thrown a fit To a … Continue reading
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
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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: The Game of Life
One day I realized The game of life And going back In the box Only to find The rules had been lost Long a go And still The game goes on This short poem plays with the notion that life … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Attitude, Authority, Awe, Buddhism, Change, Character, China, Consciousness, Courage, Creativity, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Foolish, Freedom, God, Greed, Hate, Hope, Humor, Hypocrisy, Idealism, Insanity, Institutionalize, Irreverence, Joy, Life, Love, Militarism, Mind, Modern, Obedience, Pacifism, Play, Playfulness, Political, President, Psychology, Questioning, Rage, Reality, Religion, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rhetoric, Rich, Rules, Sacred, Sincerity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Success, Truth, Universe, Utopia, Violence, War, Willingness, Wisdom, Zen
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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
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Tagged Free Will, Mystery, Perspective, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Time, Trust
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POEM: Love Tag
“I love you.” “I love you back, you’re it!” One of my more simple love poems, this playful back and forth is an invitation to continue exchanging loving acts and loving expressions. Of course, “you’re it” is a pun, as … Continue reading
POEM: Light ‘n Darkness
To face darkness Lighten up Facing darkness is a serious issue. Nonetheless, the solution is light, or to double the meaning, to lighten up. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’ve been intrigued by the Zen concept of non-seriousness. A playfulness and certain detachment … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Attitude, Detachment, Fear, Life, Meaning, Perspective, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Short Poems, Zen
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Look Ma No Arms (Peace Dove picture) FUNNY PEACE DESIGN
Look Ma No Arms (Peace Dove picture)–FUNNY PEACE BUTTON Look Ma No Arms (Peace Dove picture)–FUNNY PEACE BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Peace Signs, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Art, Buttons-Pins, cool design, Disarmament, Funny, Graphics, Kids, Mom, Peace Dove, Playfulness, Puns, Top Pun, Visual Puns
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It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON
It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, … Continue reading →