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Tag Archives: Resistance
POEM: The Yeast Of These
Wile there is much bred Daily preyed for Ample for awe concerned That seemingly still Fomenting swell times A mist repleting agin and agin In dubitable motifs Giving ascent to That for most ingredient A telling signature of homme The … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Conventional Wisdom, Crime, Disenfranchised, Elite, Faith, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Injustice, Joy, Justice, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Normal, Pacifism, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Police, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Privilege, Rage, Reality, Resistance, Respect, Revolution, Sex, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Solidarity, State, Status, Status Quo, Success, Suffering, Truth, Violence, War, Wisdom
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POEM: A Whole In The Wall
The man Reproached With muscles taut Just as I stood up With a plank beyond question A clear-cut match To the breach in the wall As an unwanted chink in won’s wooden amor As if adore rendering useless In efface … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Authority, Evil, Generosity, Heart, Impersonal, Love, Necessary Evil, Poems, Poetry, Police, Power, Powers that be, Resistance, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Work
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FREE POSTER – Black Lives Matter: Devolution of Blue Lives Matter to Corporate Lives Matter, NOT Evolution, NOT Revolution
The Black Lives Matter movement has been successful in spawning reactionary movements. The latest of these is the Blue Lives Matter messaging going national through billboards as a so-called public service. Here is my take on such reactions: That police … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged African American, America, Corporate Personhood, Criminal Justice System, Death, Dehumanizing, Evolution, free poster, Happiness, Human Rights, Image, Justice, Life, National, Nonviolent, Police, Political, Privilege, Reactionary, Resistance, Respect, Revolution, Social Movements, Violence
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POEM: The Next Best President
Victory lies In the wanton To be a sitting president Existentially unable to take a stand As a wizard behind the bully pulpit Meaning only Curtains for US A commandeered In chief smitten Buy the status qouteth Juggling interest In … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Control, Courage, Dancing, Debt, Democracy, Dreams, Elections, Gandhi, government, Injustice, Justice, Law, leadership, Meaning, Military, Money, Moral, nobel peace prize, Occupy Wall Street, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Questions, Resistance, Respect, State, Status, Status Quo, Stupid, Time, Truth, Violence, Wall Street
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POEM: A Musing Co-Mission — Nein Poems! Owed to Know One
This is nine separate poems comprising one poem, each and all on the theme of the muse mercilessly striking in the middle of the night with irrepressible inspiration from God knows where. God bid me Higher than I Was willing … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Art, Awe, Busyness, Dream, Dreams, God, Inspiration, Mourning, Muse, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Resistance, Silence, Time, Work
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POEM: Signs of The Tines
At the White House speak easy Blah blah blah blah blah blah The media drinks it up At a mine-blowingly vapid clip In the mean time On the plantation Grounds to a halt Surrounded by offense In arose guardin’ At … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Authority, Citizens, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Constitutional Rights, Conundrum, Democracy, Demonstrators, Draft Registration, Evil, Existential, Farce, Free Speech, God, government, Grace, Law, Law Enforcement, Lawyer, Meaning, Media, Military, Modern, Moral, National, National Security, Nationalism, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Police, Political, Politics, Power, Protests, Rage, Religion, Resistance, Security, State, Status, Superficial, Supreme Court, Time
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POEM: Flagging Defeat
He had enough Privilege To ignore The increasingly grave mound Of white lies Worshiping some cruel over lode Surveying all that was once Theirs A teetering tower of babble Atop spinning Helled up only buy its careening whirled Mything the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Constitutional Rights, Corporate Personhood, Creativity, Culture, Democracy, Denial, Direct Democracy, Economic, Elite, Events, Future, Heart, Humanity, Imperialism, Mind, Money, National, Nationalism, Ode, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Prophet, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Rich, Slavery, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, War, Worship
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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self
In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Change, Denial, Events, Experience, Fear, Gandhi, God, Hate, Heart, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Love, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, Psychology, Reactionary, Reality, Rebellion, Resistance, Rich, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Success, Temptation, Time, Transcendent, Violence, Voting
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POEM: Silver Bullets
Beware of cellars of silver bullets Proffering too for won buys As wear wolves clothing In the face Of murder-suicide Know if, and, or butt Totally transmogrifying In a fool moon rising A dark knight A bastard sun Offering kool … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Consumerism, Human Nature, Laziness, Lazy, Murder, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Resistance, Soul, Suicide, Virtue, Wisdom
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POEM: Model Citizen
Rowan was a model citizen One-eighth scale Painstakingly posed With animating make up Almost lifelike This short poem, “Model Citizen,” is a reflection on the life-like which should only be mistaken for life at one’s own peril — or, in … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Change, Citizens, Citizenship, Cliche, Common Good, Community, Consumption, Culture, Death, Democracy, Economy, Elite, Evil, Gandhi, Illusions, Life, Market, Modern, Nature, Play, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Progress, Proprietary, Reality, Religious, Resistance, Rich, Risk, Short Poems, Society, Status, Status Quo, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization
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MLK Day Poem
I have attended Toledo’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Unity celebration for many years. Today, I decided to pass on this year’s “show” (yes, the organizers used the term “show” to describe the festivities). In recent years, I have seen … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Change, Charity, Christmas, Classism, Dream, drone, Equality, Freedom, Harmony, Hate, Image, Income, Inequality, Justice, Martin Luther King Jr, Mind, mlk celebration, mlk day, Money, Moral, Obama, Plutocracy, Poet, Poetry, Police, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Privilege, Racism, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Slavery, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, Unity, War, Work
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Martin Luther King Day history and reflection
Martin Luther King Day is coming up on January 20, 2014. MLK Day is celebrated in the U.S. on the third Monday of every January. The first official celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a federal holiday in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Celebrations, Change, Christmas, Civil Rights, Community, Congress, Debt, Democrat, Future, government, History, Holy, Inane, Institutions, Jesus, Justice, Law, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, mlk celebration, mlk day, Monetize, National, Power, Powers that be, President, Productivity, Racism, Republican, Resistance, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Veterans, Voting, 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: O Children of Mother Earth, Arise!
This poem has emanated from my musings about the oil tar sands in Canada. The extraction of these oil tar sands, in some of the most pristine parts of North America, is the largest single scarring of Mother Earth ever … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action
Tagged Addiction, America, Beauty, Children, Greed, Hope, Life, Mother Earth, Musings, Nature, Occupy Toledo, Play, Progress, Resistance, Scarcity, Tar Sands, Toledo, Wealth, Work
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Mock Funeral – Occupy Toledo
Yesterday, April 1st, April Fool’s Day, was the one and only performance of Occupy Toledo‘s Mock Funeral — in life (and death) there are no rehearsals, this is it! If you missed it, I truly hope that you were doing … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Free Stuff, News, Political Action
Tagged America, Apathy, Celebrations, Citizens, Compulsion, Constitution, Consumption, Corporate Personhood, Death, Debt, Demonstrators, Direct Democracy, Enlightenment, Events, Food, Free Speech, Funny, Helplessness, Hope, Life, May Day, Mock, Money, Occupy Toledo, Occupy Wall Street, Parodies, Political, Propaganda, Protesters, Puns, Reality, Resistance, Rich, Satire, Security, Social Movements, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Wall Street
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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus – The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
CEO Jesus Speaks: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth! Welcome to CEO Jesus! This is the second installment a new Top Pun series of comics that will run on Sundays, featuring CEO Jesus, Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, General … Continue reading
Posted in Political Cartoons
Tagged Acceptance, Accountability, Anti-Corporate, Bible, Business, Cartoon, Church, Comics, Commercial, Culture, Free market, Future, Humility, Intimacy, Jesus, Judiasm, Market, Parodies, Political, Prophet, Religion, Religious, Resistance, Satire, Top Pun, Vulnerability
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