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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: Mine and Under Mine
- POEM: Character By Example
- POEM: The Tell
- POEM: Unbroken
- POEM: Hegseth the Peter
- POEM: Amateur Our
- POEM: Long After You Dead
- POEM: Why’s Guise
- POEM: A We Problem
- POEM: Generational Wealth
- POEM: Mouth Peace
- POEM: Keeping Pays with AI
- POEM: Allot of Money
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- POEM: Hope Less Strategy
- POEM: Bigger is Bettor – Owed to the Equation of AI Slop Times Everything Ails
- POEM: Holed for Life
- POEM: Dis Ability
- POEM: Politics at a Stand Still – Owed to Mutual Aid
- POEM: Down
- POEM: Moneymaker Shaked
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Category Archives: About Top Pun
POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
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Testimony to NRC to Shut Down Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant
Below is my testimony for today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s public hearing regarding the potential re-licensing of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant: My name is Dan Rutt. So, what are my credentials for being here tonight? I live in the kill … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Children, Congress, Death, Democracy, Environment, Faith, Farce, Future, Hope, Job, Jobs, Life, Mother Earth, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poet, Possibility, Power, Probability, Prophet, Public Health, Reality, Rich, Shareholder, Titanic, Top Pun, Work
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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
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Tagged Awe, Grace, Happiness, Heart, Life, Lifestyle, Loss, Love, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Sacred, Serendipity, Vocation, Vulnerability
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POEM: Different Game
Sorry, I don’t have any bargaining chips I’m playing a different game Most of the rules that we live by are not part of our everyday consciousness. Our working assumptions become just part of the background. Much of Western civilization … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Compassion, Consciousness, Experience, Heart, Humor, Ironic, Joy, Life, Loss, Monetize, Play, Poems, Poetry, Rules, Short Poems, Success, Values, Western Civilization
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POEM: Heaven Unearth
Heaven Unearth Place Your hand in mine And I will Skip The rest Of the whirled My feat barely Touching The ground Where heaven and earth meet Together Giving thanks For earthly existence And your heavenly Place Saying a prayer … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Dream, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Inspiration, Love, Love Poems, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prayer, Prose, Risk, Valentine
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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
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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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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: Writing Poetry
I like writing poetry except for the writing part Writing poetry is an art from the heart. If there is work in writing poetry, of which I don’t find much, it somehow relates to brain functioning. My favorite definition of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Beautiful, Experience, Heart, Image, Inspiration, Joy, Love, Mind, Mystery, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Short Poems, Work
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POEM: Blood Donor
Blood Donor I work 24/7 365 days a year I work holidays and vacations I even work in my sleep I am a blood donor My work is a gift Enrichness Serving what is but hours The miracle of life … Continue reading
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
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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: Same Old Hope
He said, “Wow, you’re the same old hopeful person.” I said “Yes, and somewhat dyslexic. I’m a Samo Hopien” This short poem doubles as a bad joke. Appropriately so, my dyslexia is in tandem with the double vision of punning. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Chaos, Creativity, Cruelty, Gandhi, Gift, Hope, Integrity, Joke, Justice, Learning, Life, Meaning, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Psychology, Short Poems, Social Justice, Top Pun, Work
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POEM: BUCKET BRIGADE – Owed to Karen Krause
BUCKET BRIGADE Owed to Karen Krause While some pine That faith The size of a mustard seed Can move mountains Like magic Perhaps with a wrinkle of their knows Wiser women know How mountains move Bucket by bucket By outstretched … Continue reading
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Tagged Awe, Courage, Death, Experience, Faith, Food, Gift, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Humility, Injustice, Jesus, Jobs, Jobs with Justice, Justice, Life, Meaning, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Powers that be, Public Health, Social Justice, Time, Toledo, Truth, Women, Work
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POEM: Tasting God
Tasting God I almost tasted God In what turned out To be A fine guacamole A common mistake Well worth repeating I find eating guacamole a religious experience. As family legend has it, when we lived in Haiti when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Experience, Family, Food, God, Haiti, Joy, Life, Mom, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Religious, Short Poems
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
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BP Tar Sands Refinery Expansion – PEOPLE’S HEARING Testimony
Below is my testimony at the PEOPLE’S HEARING to respond to the Ohio EPA’s sham public hearing on BP-Husky’ Draft Air Pollution Permit as part of their Oregon Ohio refinery re-tooling to process oil tar sands, the dirtiest oil on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, America, Ancient, Beauty, Business, Change, Children, Citizens, Community, Congress, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Economic, Environment, Environmental, government, Greed, History, Humanity, Insanity, Jobs, Justice, Life, Money, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Occupy Toledo, Play, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Power, Progress, Public Health, Scarcity, State, Stewardship, Sustainable, Tar Sands, Time, Toledo, Trust, Wealth, Women, Work
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Justice For Danny Brown $149.02
Today, I have to go down to the Toledo Municipal Court and pay my fine and court costs of $149 for “illegal posting” of Justice for Danny Brown stickers and Julia Bates WANTED posters all over downtown, surrounding the Lucas … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Danny Brown, Debt, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Illegal, Justice, Law, Life, Money, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poor, Protests, Society, State, Toledo
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Just Eating For Life: New Web Site
I have been interested in nutrition pretty much my whole adult life. This started out from a concern for world hunger and stewardship of our natural resources, as well has an interest in nutrition and health. I became a vegetarian … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Change, Community, Gift, Hope, Job, Life, Mind, Nutrition, Public Health, Science, Stewardship, Time, Top Pun, Work, World Hunger
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