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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: Vocation
POEM: Hope Ungraduated
This is a poem that plays with the fact that I graduated from Hope College. I have literally graduated from hope! Of course, hope is not simply something that can be metered out in a “graduated” fashion, and neither hoard … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Hope, Liberal, Life, Religious, Vocation
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POEM: An Artist And
This poem is a reflection on the tension between an artistic vocation and the pull to become a commercial success. Creating art and monetizing art are often extremely different things. An Artist And She was a consummate artist Sow she … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Commercial, Success, Vocation
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POEM: The Stub
This poem is a small tale of serendipity where even the small stub of a toe could lead to large discovery, and weather this discovery turns out to be a blessing or a curse may also deep end on serendipity. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessing, God, Grace, Healing, Serendipity, Time, Vocation
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POEM: The Dog Edit My Homework
I have encountered many opportunities to attend writers workshops and such. The impulse for me to attend has never arose. My style of poetry is free — and writefully worth every penny! Thus, this poem: The Dog Edit My Homework … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Life, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Time, Vocation, Work
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POEM: That Saddest Factory Job
He wanted A sweet life But he woke Too fine himself In a jam Too preserve That weigh of life Bearing deferred dreams His soul apprehension A future in trapped Just wanting A good deal bettor Then merely make it … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Dreams, Future, Job, Jobs, Life, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Present, Productivity, Soul, Time, Vocation, Work
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POEM: Standing On My Privy Ledge
I am a white, straight, Christian, male And you see that I am afraid Though paying attention To what is fare I am more afraid Of whites than blacks Of straights than queers Of Christians than Muslims Of men than … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Discrimination, Economic, Equality, Feminism, Haiti, Hate, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Intersectionality, Justice, LGBT, Life, Mennonite, Muslims, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Prison, Privilege, Public Health, Queer, Reality, Rich, Social Justice, Solidarity, Values, Vocation, Women
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POEM: Unpain Vocations
There are long aligns To unpain vocations Pro-longed wading to a temp And after awe Many will Due what tolled Unwilling to pay the accost In baring feudal labor As unsuitable to be delivered And forever borne agin Illiciting that … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Dreams, Economy, Heart, Hope, Labor, Life, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Values, Vocation, Work, Workplace
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POLITICAL POEM: The Whole Damn Nation
Oh no No no A nation divided And so so partial to the whirled As who elect Who to rule Over US The select select Culled before we can even vote In the worst OKs scenario Effaced with know choice … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Citizens, Courage, Debt, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dream, Dreams, Freedom, Gratitude, Harmony, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, Imperialism, Justice, Media, Mother Earth, National, Nature, Ode, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, State, Third Party, Unity, Vocation, Voting, Wealth
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POEM: Hardily A Vacation
She was on Vocation Delving into the wildness The better part of reality Unseen in noonday Or the shadowy bosom of the human heart To gather presence Without plundering And only after the day’s calling With singular peering Return dumb … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Gratitude, Heart, Joy, Life, Play, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Simplicity, Vocation
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EPIC POEM: As Night Watch Man
In the deep Of the knight Watch man Finding one self prone Where singular stars obscure As perpetual high noon Where time stops Straight up Where the sun don’t shine Like a broken time peace With patients in undated Wear … Continue reading
POEM: To The See Tossing
Even As a serious looker She wore a millstone Round her neck Never experiencing a vocation Long enough Too go To the see tossing This is a Monday mourning poem for awe of you wage slaves. It is far too … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, Awe, Bible, Business, Death, Death Penalty, Dream, Dreams, God, Hell, Hope, Income, Job, Life, Mourning, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Short Poems, Vocation, Work
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POEM: Dream Catcher
A daze work Over Come Bye sleep Sow few dream catchers Sow many dreams And that’s the catch This poem is about work, vocation, passion, and burnout. This poem is mournful in that so many dreams go unrealized, uncaught. This … Continue reading
POEM: Constipated Destiny
He knew knot Exactly where He was going As fate would have it Seized by easy convictions Big house Auto, pilot And every won else’s Re-guard Of one self full Filled Buy in And sell out In humanity A sure … Continue reading
POEM: A Corny Poem — Owed To Iowa
He was feeling it In a corny state The mother of corn starch In the thick of it A sweet mother High on fructose Full of it As lots of feed In feedlots Of walking meat But it was my … Continue reading
POEM: A Full Life
Charlie’s life was full Every available space laden to wrest His productivity well suited To his interests Taxidermy and robotics This short poem offers a challenge to what it means to have a full life in modern Western civilization, where … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Anxiety, Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Capitalism, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Experience, God, Hope, Image, Inane, Job, Labor, Life, Modern, Nature, Perspective, Productivity, Questioning, Revolution, Revolutionary, Silence, Suffering, Tao, Vocation, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: For Shadowing a Life
She had saved So much time and money Only leaving Too much too due A well honed busyness Yielding the best of the bust A treasured chest In hard times aplenty Never the less Predictably taking A rugged helm In … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abyss, America, Busyness, Choices, Cynical, Death, Defense, Denial, Evil, Family, Fear, Freedom, Gandhi, Harmony, Hate, Human Nature, Humanist, Humanity, Image, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Labor, Life, Logic, Love, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possessions, Present, Proverb, State, Success, Time, Transcendent, Trust, Universe, Vocation, Wealth, Work
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POEM: As the Show Must…Go On!
As the Show Must…Go On! Desperately seeking an audience With kings, queens, and commoners Call in the troupes! Who will perform her Aspiring thespians Willing to do Shakespeare Or any low brow play right As parts are parts Whether broad … Continue reading
POEM: Eulogizing Fort Hood
Eulogizing Fort Hood It is not ours to ask Why those so schooled In violence Should act violently On a vocation so seriously Taking Won too many weepings Lead so quickly Penetrating human hearts Our own flesh Not at home … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Guns, Heart, Nonviolence, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Rage, Veterans, Violence, Vocation
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POEM: Evolution of a Writer
Evolution of a Writer You have evolved into quite a writer Could you write something for my company? He solicited Presumably thinking I was still into monkey business Not even grasping I was clearly out of my tree This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Business, Commercial, Compromise, Creativity, Darwin, Depression, Evolution, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Future, Humanity, Inspiration, Ironic, Job, Joy, Life, Logic, Market, Materialist, Meaning, Money, Nature, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Present, Questions, Reality, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Sex, Simplicity, Society, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent, Truth, Vocation, Work, Worldview
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