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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: 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
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: 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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POEM: A Forgetting God
Remembering God is almost as hard as God forgetting us Remembering God can be difficult. Remembering God can be particularly difficult if we are not trying to remember God. I believe that we all experience God, though some of us … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christian, Christianity, Church, Conservative, Death, Equality, Experience, God, Human Race, Jesus, Life, Love, One-line Poems, Poetry, Puns, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Resistance, Sex, Sexuality, Time
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POEM: Relationship Test
I like to be alone Especially when you and I are together I wrote this as a love poem. Surprisingly, really surprisingly, I did not see the second way to read this poem. Herein lies the test. If you read … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Insecurities, Love, Love Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
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POEM: Personal Boundaries
Sometimes I have trouble telling where I end and you begin No, wait, that’s you! This funny little poem plays with the confusion inherent in having fuzzy personal boundaries. Codependency is a very popular topic these days. Sorting out what … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Awareness, Business, Funny, Interdependence, Job, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Relationships, Self-Awareness, Self-Discovery, Short Poems, Time, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off
POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off Have you ever looked a chicken in the eyes? Most of us city folk probably never have Where are you? Chickens can look quite different in the city Just the same … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Busyness, Consciousness, Crazy, Culture, Death, Expediency, Funny, Life, Mindfulness, Poems, Present, Puns, Relationships, Self-Discovery, Solidarity, Western Civilization
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POEM: Financial Wizardry
Steal from one You are called a thief Steal from many You are called a financial wizard I like this short poem because it plays with the idea of how we interpret personal or individual acts versus impersonal and large-scale … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Accountability, Anarchism, Community, Control, Dehumanizing, Democracy, Direct Democracy, Impersonal, Individualism, Murder, National, Reality, Relationships, Status, Success, Wealth, Western Civilization
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Blood Donor Deferrals Border on Insanity
I just returned from donating blood at the American Red Cross. I have been a regular blood donor for a long time. I usually donate blood two or three times a year. Unfortunately, I have been deferred as a blood … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Health, News
Tagged Absolute Security, Advertising, American Red Cross, Balance, Blood Donors, Change, Choices, Colombia, Control, Crazy, Culture, Disease, Environment, Epidemiology, Events, Experience, Fear, Haiti, Hate, Health Care, Heterosexual, Hope, Insanity, Life, Loss, Military, Perspective, Political, Prevention, Public Health, Questions, Relationships, Risk, Security, Sex, Technology, Time, Vanity, Willingness, Women, Zero Risk
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In Politics Stupidity Is Not a Handicap
In Politics Stupidity Is Not a Handicap–FUNNY PEACE QUOTE BUTTON In Politics Stupidity Is Not a Handicap–FUNNY PEACE QUOTE BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, … Continue reading →