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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: A Mirror Student
- POEM: Job One
- POEM: Dawning of So-called Civilization
- POEM: The Dance of Life
- POEM: Barren His Soul
- POEM: Hope Ungraduated
- POEM: The Lessen of Mirror Nihilism
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- POEM: What is De-served?
- POEM: Baby-ize
- POEM: A Walker, Please
- POEM: People of Consequence
- POEM: Rat Race Religion
- POEM: It’s Awe Poetry
- POEM: The Hole of Life
- POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”
- POEM: As The Whirled Goes Bye
- POEM: Nobodies
- POEM: This Poet’s Prayer
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- POEM: Optimism — A Buy Product of Hope
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POEM: Pirate Queen
Wile the sands of time Make some wail and blubber In the aye of the storm You could sea it In the wides of her eyes Shown as bright as a thousand stars Her pupils As deep and rapturous As … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Awe, Camus, Control, Dogma, Farce, Fear, Freedom, Future, Law, Life, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Queer, Radical, Reality, Rebellion, Soul, Spiritual, Status, Superficial, Time, Titanic
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POEM: Reject
They took out a social contract On her In what might as well be Too her Too be As good As dead From their point of you Her response sow questionable If it’s awe the same Too you I’ll strike … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Camus, Character, Courage, Dehumanizing, Evolution, Humanity, Idioms, leadership, Learning, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Prose, Rage, Rebellion, Resistance, Revolution, Rules, Society, Status, Status Quo
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REAL POLITICS, REAL CANDIDATE: Jill Stein 2016 Platform
IF you want a progressive presidential candidate that you can get excited about voting FOR, then Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate is worth serious consideration. Jill Stein has selected her Green Party running mate, Vice President choice, Ajamu Baraka. … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authority, Ballot, Business, Capitalism, Change, China, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Climate Change, Commercial, Community, Congress, Constitutional Rights, Control, Corporate Personhood, Courage, Creation, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Culture, Death, Death Penalty, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Democrat, Disarmament, Discrimination, Disease, Diversity, Doctrine, drone, Economic, Economy, Education, Elections, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Equality, Family, Fear, Food, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, Future, Gender, government, Green Party, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Housing, Human Rights, Humanity, Immigration, Income, Israel, Jill Stein, Job, Jobs, Justice, Kids, Labor, Law, Learning, LGBT, Life, Living Wage, Meaning, Media, Medicare, Medicare for All, Mental Health, Military, Money, Mother Earth, National, NATO, Nonviolent, Nuclear Power, Nutrition, Obama, Palestine, Partisan, Patriot, Police, Police Brutality, Political, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Poverty, Power, President, Prevention, Prison, Progress, Public Health, Racism, Rage, Refugees, Religion, Responsibility, Rich, Russia, Security, Social Security, State, Status, Substance Abuse, Sustainable, Tar Sands, taxes, Terrorism, Violence, Voters, Voting, Wall Street, War, Wealth, Women, Work, Workplace
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COMEDIAN JESUS: Pax Romana — You’re Killing Me!
This Comedian Jesus political cartoon highlights the shallow liberalism and false choices of Pax Romana, the metaphorical stand-in for Pax Americana, peace through so-called enlightened domination. This Comedian Jesus cartoon also ties the all-too-convenient collaboration of political and religious elites … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Accountability, America, Authority, Awe, Cartoon, Children, Choices, Church, Citizens, Citizenship, Comics, Creation, Death, Domination, Employment, Funny, God, Hope, Ideals, Imperialism, Jesus, Martyrdom, Military, Modern, Money, Mother Earth, Nonviolence, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Powers that be, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Radical, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Xenophobia
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Incremental Change, Heads Up!
This free political poster posits that the conventional wisdom of incremental change can be lethal to paradigm shifts needed for humanity to evolve to the next level. Devotees of incremental change may view death by degrees as safer, or at least … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Ballot, Change, Chaos, Compromise, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Democracy, Donald Trump, Evil, Evolution, Experience, Fear, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, God, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, Injustice, Liberation Theology, Life, Love, Paradigm Shift, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Preferential Option for the Poor, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Status, Status Quo, Sustainable, Theology, Top Pun, Truth, Values, Voting, War, Wisdom
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IN DEPENDENCE DAZE POEM — A Little Colony PR: Owed Too Puerto Rico
If at first you don’t secede You will be tried, tried agin Taking atoll Largely unheard Feigning liberties In centuries owed looming freedom Weave earned our lessen From the British umpire Never let US leave North America [Except for certain … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Citizens, Colonial Rule, Congress, Control, Debt, Democracy, Economy, Freedom, government, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Puerto Rico, State, Status, Work
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POEM: They Knot His and Her — Owed To Gender Fluidity
They cross that strait When they get two it As engender queer In mirrorly two be Or knot too be This poem is an ode to gender fluidity, to anyone who looks in the mirror and sees a different gender … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Diversity, Equality, Female, Future, Gender, History, Identity, Justice, Life, Ode, Poetry, Political, Pride, Queer, Reactionary, Short Poems, Social Justice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Transgender
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POEM: Enough Awe Ready
He saw The future In have Like sum carnival game Destined to win As if In sane As blown two bits Caught looking Like a fun house mirror Mirror on the wall Axing who is the fairest Of ummm awe … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Celebrity, Culture, Denial, Dreams, Evil, Experience, Future, God, History, Hope, Life, Money, National, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Possessions, Power, Present, Security, Status, Superficial, Surreal
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POEM: Unannunciated Power
Power came to my home for dinner Well, not actually my home, rather my house Not in person, but through a representative Witch some defer to as a medium That would be TV In accuracy, as sum political add All … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, government, Hope, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Voters, Work
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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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POEM: Are You A Friend of Dorothy?
As a friend of Dorothy Day I wood ax More than won quest in A bout Her call As a tenet in passable saint hood As if a priest to nun Or mirror lay person Aborting gaiety As an infallible … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abortion, America, Atheist, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Church, Citizenship, Culture, Dogma, Dorothy Day, Dream, Dreams, Elite, Faith, Gender, God, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Image, Ironic, Jesus, Life, Love, Play, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Present, Privilege, Questions, Religious, Sacred, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Wealth, Women, Work, Worship
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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: 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: The Short End of The Shtick
The earth quaked Beneath the CEO As he re-torted It’s no bodies fault In a sense Coming upon The prophets of owed Raking over That thin lyin’ Between purveyor and consumer I’m just Doing my job And it’s knot My … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Faith, Helplessness, Humanity, Job, Life, Poems, Poetry, Present, Responsibility, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Universe
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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: Awe The Deference In The Whirled
He said She said You seem full of yourself Or full of something As I would Decidedly be Rather mistaken As too much for sum Than sow scarcely perceived In convenient lacking A peace meal Leaving hungry Or crocodile tears … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Change, Children, Control, Conventional Wisdom, Creativity, Culture, Curiosity, Environment, Experience, Freedom, God, Heart, Hope, Humility, Life, Mind, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rules, Soul, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Wisdom
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