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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: Knot Halving a Preyer
- POEM: The World Within, Reach
- POEM: Botanically Speaking
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- POEM: Taoist Coupling
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- POEM: Over Powering Thongs of People – Owed to Public “Safety Nets”
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- POEM: Congressional Ethics is Crimes Bitch
- Rogue AI – Owed to Broligarchs Playing in Sandboxes
- POEM: Soully Exhausting
- POEM: Masters of Mediocrity – Owed to Democratic Congressional Leadership
- POEM: Peek Danger
- POEM: Life Without a Net
- POEM: Time Heels All
- POEM: AI Ore Bust
- POEM: Read Scare – Owed to Bibliophiles
- POEM: A Pillsbury® Presidency
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Tag Archives: Vocation
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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POEM: Passing Through Sublime Daze
I pass through Sublime daze Uninterrupted by alarms Or dread lines Clothed in a peril so frayed I am practically naked To the whirled To wit each mourn I live in that last squeeze of toothpaste And that first blush … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Grace, Happiness, Heart, Life, Lifestyle, Loss, Love, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Sacred, Serendipity, Vocation, Vulnerability
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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: 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: Fringe Benefits
Living on the fringe Has benefits I thought that this short poem would have been the seed for a larger poem, but the more I thought about it, I didn’t want to mess with the simple elegance of it. Since … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Diminishing Returns, Dreams, Free market, Happiness, Health Care, Health Insurance, Hope, Job, Journey, Life, Living Simply, Market, Money, Mourning, Pastor, Poems, Poetry, Power, Proverb, Rich, Security, Short Poems, Time, Vocation, Work
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POEM: Feminists Know Something
As a man One day I wondered How come there are so few Women politicians Women economists Women lawyers Then it occurred to me Maybe they know something we don’t The quest to understand the difference between men and women … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Control, Counter-Cultural, Curiosity, Experience, Female, Feminism, Feminist, Gender, Law, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Short Poems, Society, Vocation, Women, Work
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“PUNS NOT GUNS” Manifesto by Top Pun
“PUNS NOT GUNS” Manifesto “Some claim that puns are the lowest form of comedy. Dan, rather, says, “Guns are the lowest form of community.” Choose your weepin’! I prefer to hit ’em in the groan. Though puns and untrained minds … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Gun, Business, Church, Community, Consciousness, Funny, Guns, Haiti, Inspiration, Justice, Life, Manifesto, Mennonite, Mennonites, Mom, Nonviolence, Normal, Paradoxes, Play, Poverty, Present, Puns, Rhyme, Social Justice, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Violence, Vocation, World Hunger
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