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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: Trust
POLITICAL POEM: Elections Bought and Souled
What due You Know choice candidates Fenced by kleptocrats And undebatable Republicrats Their exclusive promise A system fixed Throwing political parties Incorporations wee trust In-firm ideologies The body politic Under the whether Or worse yet Riddled with ballots Everlustingly powered … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Ballot, Choices, Consumption, Donald Trump, Elections, Funny, Future, Hell, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Puns, Republican, Revolution, Sacred, State, Third Party, Time, Trust, Wisdom
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POEM: As Rein In Hate On A Sunny Day: Owed To Women’s Choice
They came to give their disagreeable lessen The meaning Of life Pro that is A posse of out-of-towners Stoop to down T-town Met with a flocking faithful of our own As rein in hate on a sunny day With the … Continue reading
POEM: Enlightenment Not Worth Beings
Conversing in the street At a protest We had a very enlightening pow wow As too in form me He stated with qualm assurance “Protest before enlightenment, protest after enlightenment” A parity of action Like I had never seen To … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Accountability, Amorality, Balance, Enlightenment, Evil, God, Human Rights, Individualism, Insanity, Life, Materialism, Meaning, Nature, New Age, Philosophy, Present, Privilege, Progress, Reactionary, Religion, Society, Soul, Spiritual, Spirituality, Trust, Truth
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POEM: Commander-in-chief
Just Say it Three times fast He/she/it Commander-in-chief Presiding over No unwounded soldiers As sum kind Of used scars salesman Master of what we auto do Protector of awe we car about As if Some amored vehicle Good grief Shock … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Creation, Evil, God, Hell, Image, Life, Military, Nationalism, Nonviolence, Normal, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Power, President, Propaganda, Reality, Sacred, Sacrifice, Slavery, Time, Top Pun, Trust, Violence, War, Worship
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POEM: A Choiring, Raw Youth
Their raw youth Was tenderly witnessed By age owed eyes In awe Their awkward glory Surpassing polished learning More than could ever anew This poem is a reminder to both young and old about the raw beauty of youth, the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Community, Compassion, Dream, Experience, Grace, Hope, Joy, Kids, Learning, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Trust
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POEM: A Truth Foul
If you should believe The hole truth And nothing A butt the truth You may well be Full if it Perfectly primed For letting go Unable to be taken Any more By a singular won Given By an other This … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Attitude, Awe, Cynicism, Experience, Hope, Hubris, Humility, Ideology, Intimacy, Life, Moral, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Responsibility, Trust, Truth, Universe, Vulnerability
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POEM: Won Race
He ran his won race Not around other men’s tracks But in open fields Into sunsets and sunrises Never looking back As no one affront And know time Where mostly losers must collect Outside The whiner’s circle And still Fodder … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awareness, Awe, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Gift, Life, Loss, Passion, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Radical, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Self-Awareness, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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FREE POSTER: In Lieu of Building Social Trust Everything Everywhere Will Be Recorded To Be Used Against You Just In Case The Representatives of The Peephole Deem Any Behavior Unfit
I was just feeling under surveillance today. Please feel free to share or print out this free anti-surveillance poster, or other free posters from Top Pun. More designs against the surveillance and security state: … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Free Stuff, Political Action
Tagged Buttons-Pins, free poster, Free Posters, Image, Security, State, Top Pun, Trust
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POEM: Nevermore Contrived
In the distant future But not too distant Man fashions A machine That does every thing For us For the trees Imperceptible To awe but sum Living in passed tense Eternal re-pose Holding sway In make believe lives And unexamined … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Busyness, Celebrity, Coercion, Courage, Dream, Dreams, Future, Heart, Hope, Identity, Intimacy, Life, Market, Play, Power, Reality, Religion, Sacrifice, Security, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Technology, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Albatross Necklace Futures
I stared at the world I could have built Had I Grasped more Farce fully A stock pile Awe but reaching Heaven Falling short Of mature stature Leaving behind Child’s play The ripe now And not trading in Futures Of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Ancient, Awe, Bible, Blessed, Choices, Christian, Christianity, Compassion, Courage, Evil, Faith, Farce, Future, God, Heaven, Hubris, Humanity, Ideology, Idolatry, Image, Irony, Islam, Life, Love, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, People of The Book, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religious, Respect, Responsibility, Sacred, Science, Society, Spiritual, Status, Technology, Time, Trust, Truth, Values, Vanity, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: Needling a Haystack
The stockpiles of human knowledge grow exponentially And wisdom, like needling a haystack Says, “What the hay?!” Finding better questions is where it’s at Not how fast you can shovel it Nor how big your pitchfork is Rather what thread … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Argument, Arrogance, Attitude, Character, Curiosity, Cynicism, Facts, Faith, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Generosity, God, Humility, Ideology, Intellect, Kindness, Meaning, Militant, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Power, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Reverence, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Skepticism, Transcendent, Trust, Unity, Wisdom
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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: Arousing Spirit
She had a profoundly rousing spirit Unfortunately, he did not believe in spirits And lack of belief Will only Carry you so far I like this short poem because it plays with the notions of spirit and disbelief. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, Courage, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Literacy, Logic, Love, Materialism, Materialist, Modern, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Randomness, Reality, Religious, Security, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Skepticism, Society, Spiritual, Time, Trust, Worldview
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POEM: More Than, a Nester — Owed to Seán Nestor, in honor of his 29th birthday
More Than, a Nester Owed to Seán Nestor in honor of his 29th birthday In the beginning There was a good egg In compassed By a paltry brood A restless nativity And ageless questions Of what thirst And what last … Continue reading
POEM: A Life Virtual, oh so…
There was twitter Jen Facebook Jen Work Jen School Jen Family Jen Amongst others Never at risk That they would hookup Or unplug In some formidable Jen convention Or at least the latest version In some ever expending universe Wear … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Authenticity, Experience, facebook, Family, Heart, Hope, Identity, Intimacy, Life, Love, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Relationships, Risk, Superficial, Time, Trust, Universe, Virtual Reality, Work
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