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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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- POEM: Making Shit Up
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POEM: Retort #112
I suspect that if you don’t see someone as eccentric, perhaps living in a wondrous crucible brimming with contradictions, then you don’t really know someone. People, as inconvenient as they may be, are irreducibly wondrous creatures. I suspect that most … Continue reading
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Tagged Facts, Reality, Relationships
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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: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI
One of the cutting edges of AI, artificial intelligence, is large language models that can veraciously consume massive amounts of writing in short order — more info than thousands of humans in a lifetime. However impressive this might be, my … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Awe, Humanity, Idioms, Ode, Prose, Relationships, Shakespeare
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POEM: North Pole
This poem was inspired by my lack of sense of direction in a high rise, where both directions I looked seemed like south to me. Of course, the only place on earth where every direction you look south is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Meaning, Moral, Relationships, Work
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POEM: Dyslexic Write Wringer
Dyslexic Write Wringer In a whack and blight world Any dyslexic can tell you A right winger Is a white ringer Only as an adult did I realize that I am mildly dyslexic. I have to intentionally work every time … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Dyslexia, Equality, Experience, Funny, Gift, Hate, Humor, Learning, Love, Meaning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Racism, Relationships, Responsibility, Time, White Supremacy, Work
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POEM: Macaroni Art
Has it ever occurred to you That your life’s work is but Macaroni art Only then realizing That it is covering God’s refrigerator And how great that is This poem touches upon a number of themes: humility, self-confidence, perfectionism and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, God, Grace, Humility, Life, Perfectionism, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Short Poems, Work
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Self-Made Trump Has A Fool For A Maker
In Trumpian fashion, fool of irony, I quote myself: “A self-made man has a fool for a maker.” The man-child known as Donald Trump runs roughshod over the boundaries of lesser fools. He fashions his fashion as the boss of … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Beauty, Business, Citizens, Death, Debt, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economy, Elections, Enemies, Equality, Facts, Family, Fear, Foolish, God, government, Heart, History, Ideals, Image, Inequality, Irony, Kids, Law, Life, Meaning, Mind, Minority, National, Occupy Wall Street, Power, President, Privilege, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Rich, Rules, Russia, Secrets, Silence, Society, Stupid, Time, Trust, Truth, Wall Street, Wealth, Willingness, Women
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POLITICAL POEM: The Bus of Times, The Worst of Times
His political career Hung in the balance Throw a certain number under the bus Or see bus production drop precipitously This short poem recognizes a brutal utilitarianism in politics, which is present at most any level. Using people as means … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Economic, Economy, Efficiency, Human Rights, Humanity, Impersonal, Meaning, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Present, Radical, Relationships, Religion, Respect, Sacred, Short Poems, Time
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HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness
I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research. I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged Anxiety, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Change, Character, Children, Church, Culture, Environment, Events, Experience, Future, Happiness, Heart, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Joy, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Meaning, Modern, Money, Nature, Perspective, Play, Political, Present, Psychology, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Respect, Rich, Risk, Sacrifice, Science, Selfish, Society, Soul, State, Suffering, Superficial, Surreal, Time, Values, War, Welfare, Work
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POEM: The Curator
I am The curator Of your infinite beauty Privy to collections timeless And in real time Streaming glorious tributaries To the art of who you are This is a poem about the glorious privilege in close relationships of having unique … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beauty, Character, Conflict, Creation, Experience, God, Holy, Imagination, Joy, Life, Love, Love Poems, Muse, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Reality, Relationships, Reverence, Short Poems, Stupid, Time, Universe, Work
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POEM: Carrots and Sticks
He came from the sticks And had Little taste For carrots He wood Just as soon Beat you As raze the son Those Sunday mournings Long a go This poem is about the vicious cycles of violence passed on from … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Domestic Violence, Equality, Experience, Future, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Short Poems, Violence
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POEM: Slow Mo’ Bettor Blues
Is it awe A gambol Sometimes you git Their faster In slow motion More rarefied Then a tortoise and its hair Relegated to children Of God Knowing nothing In the phase of fabled Head weigh Breeding like Rabbits Countering undeniable … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awe, Beautiful, Children, Control, Creation, Culture, Denial, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Gandhi, God, History, Holy, Hospitality, Human Nature, Humanity, Impersonal, Life, Love, Modern, Nationalism, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview
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POEM: Love Making
I was mistaken All those years Those sweetest ours Thinking I was making love When in truth Love was making me This love poem, as most of my poems, can be read several ways. Of course, the simplest reading is … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Community, Courage, God, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Life, Love, Love Poems, Mind, Mystery, Patience, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Reality, Relationships, Romantic, Spiritual, Truth, Work
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POEM: Corn Fed Politicians
We are surrounded By corn fed politicians Who don’t eat corn But slaughter the herd Fed only corn In a round a bout weigh In realty And capitol punishment Their hire power Contracts executioners To deal with every unwieldy beef … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Authority, Community, Cynical, Dehumanizing, Elite, Food, Job, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Meaning, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Punishment, Radical, Relationships, Respect, Sustainable, Work
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POEM: Kindness 1.618 — Owed To The Goaled In Proportion
A parent In the relationship Between to be gotten The larger to the smaller The goaled in proportion Amidst just us Sum times christened The divine proportion And it doesn’t take A mathematical genus To divine its kind Never the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Beauty, Dalai Lama, Experience, Generosity, God, Grace, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Meaning, Nature, Ode, Perspective, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Relationships, Religion, Resentment, Sacred, Science, Social Justice, Soul, Work
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