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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: Poems
POEM: Wolves in Elephants’ Clothing
Wolves in Elephants’ Clothing Somewhat sheepishly She whispered Beware of wolves in elephants’ clothing Lurking about Only looking Like they want To kick some ass Though you can skulk in style If you have A grand Old party Securing your … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Business, Change, Christian, Christianity, Climate Change, Courage, Crime, Death, Elections, Evolution, Experience, Free market, Gandhi, God, GOP, Greed, Health Care, History, Humanity, Hypocrisy, Ironic, Jesus, Life, Market, Nonviolent, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Prayer, Present, Rage, Religion, Religious, Republican, Revolution, Sacrifice, Science, Skepticism, taxes, Truth, Voters, War, Work
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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: Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl Sunday Guess what I herd It’s Super Bowl™ Sabbath Quite coincidentally on Sunday And I’m not sure who’s playing who Perhaps the Cowboys and Indians Or the Lions and the Christians The eternal argument weather Its just A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Christian, Commercial, Competition, Culture, Domination, Exceptionalism, Faith, Life, Love, Money, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Sabbath, Sports, Time, War, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: State of the Union – Barack Obama
The State of the Union In come in equality Barack Hussein Obama Raising a question Of will he deliver His second state Of the union Different than the first Shot from Chicagoland Now addressing From 1600 sumpin’ Pennsylvania Avenue A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Community, Economic, Education, Equality, Experience, Family, Fear, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Identity, Income, Inequality, Intellect, Irony, Joy, Law, Lawyer, Lazy, Life, Minority, Money, Navy, Obama, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Present, President, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Rhetoric, Science, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Status, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, War
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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: 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
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
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: 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: Atlantis Rules
Atlantis Rules The young Atlantean The imprudent progeny Of the now forgotten Famed experimental physicist father Was more infamous Than his fabled land In pawning his dad’s curiosity And not taking his mother’s quiet advice A lot on his plate … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cautionary Tale, Curiosity, Facts, Family, Funny, History, Joke, Mind, Parodies, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Rules, Short Poems, Time, Truth, Whimsical
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POEM: I Went AWOL
One day I went AWOL A Well Ordered Life I’m not sure If anyone noticed If they did Judging me By my backside I would be too Looking forward Mirrorly suggestive Of one’s self In what might A peer A … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Counter-Cultural, Crazy, Culture, Dreams, Existential, Hell, Hope, Job, Life, Love, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possessions, Power, Prison, Reality, Risk, Sartre, Society, Status, Time, Western Civilization
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POEM: Hungering for Answers
Hungering for Answers We should stay the course To turn the corner To see the light At the end of the tunnel Yet long-term solutions For the hungry Are difficult to stomach As for those who have Empty hearts Eatin’ … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Charity, Children, Compassion, Control, Experience, Food, Heart, Learning, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Responsibility, Serendipity, Short Poems, War, Wealth
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POEM: Their Undoing
They control the levers Of a vast machinery Of business, politics, education They know no equals Fusing work and ploy Blind to their match Game and set Unable even to follow their own ruse Our future Remains Incalculable Though we … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Business, Change, Choices, Control, Courage, Culture, Education, Evil, Freedom, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Hypocrisy, Hypocritical, Lazy, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Powers that be, Present, Reality, Risk, Rules, Self-Awareness, Selfish, Short Poems, State, Status, Status Quo, Stupid, Sustainable, Time, Work
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POEM: Fearmongers
Fearmongers Fear-mongers rein upon US And weave so much dread Of what dismay due We simply back into A dark future Like bit players In a bad horror film Where more than budgets are slashed And we feign surprise This … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged budgets, Courage, Experience, Fear, Future, Helplessness, Image, Logic, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Reality, Short Poems, Society, Surprises, Sustainable
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POEM: About It
About It I am helpless Though God Is more eloquent Just saying I love you And there is nothing You can do About it This poem is a tribute to human helplessness and the redeeming love of God which we … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Balance, Change, Control, Evil, Experience, God, Grace, Heart, Helplessness, Hope, Life, Love, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Vulnerability
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POEM: Setting Sail
Dear brother This morn I must part Like the wind I can Know longer Take your merchant ship Any moor Borne to sale For that is knot What I was billed for To harbor In relative safety My cell in … Continue reading
POEM: Come Alive
At a party A stranger Approaches several guests With great anticipation Won by won Not asking them The routine inquiry “What do you do for a living?” Instead asking them “What do you do that makes you come alive?” Though … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Albert Schweitzer, Change, Gandhi, Job, Jobs, Life, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Puns, Questions, Quotes, Short Poems, Vocation, Work
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POEM: War on Poverty
War on Poverty In our nation’s capital We are drowning in think tanks Our chief armament In the war on poverty And for all of their business They have made up their mine Poverty is not the problem Poverty is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Business, Congress, Heart, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Poverty, President, Progress, Rhetoric, Scarcity, State, Supreme Court, Time, War, Wealth
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POEM: Unending Vocation
She summoned me To tell me Of my new job assignment I soon realized That it was Not beneath me But behind me So I moved on In my unending vocation As I was tolled This poem is autobiographical. This … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Control, Courage, Death, Dreams, Environment, Experience, Future, Gift, God, Helplessness, Job, Kids, Life, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Pride, Privilege, Puns, Reality, Relationships, Short Poems, Spiritual, Time, Trust, Vocation, Work
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