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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: In Summer-y
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Category Archives: Peace
POEM: Whole Beings Uneaten
Most passed by With their own lodes barren Some considered us fruits Whose only value was what was eating us Others fancied us spoiled At any rate As undrinkable whines Expressing only of what we no Sow surly After awe … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Crazy, Humanity, Market, Poems, Poetry, Rebellion, Resurrection
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ANTI-VIOLENCE POEM: Sisyphean Tax
He was steeped in the slippery slope of violence An idol escalator Heedlessly powered by gravity and gravitas A climb it denier Of the worst breed Not giving won ascent A bout others In spite of the accost Whatever It … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Attitude, Awe, Consciousness, Creativity, Domination, Experience, Freedom, Hell, Life, Moral, Nature, Nonviolence, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Present, Reactionary, skin in the game, State, Suffering, Time, Top Pun, Violence
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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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Toledo LOVE Fest: Anti-Trump Rally
As Donald Trump brought to Toledo his caravan of hate, bigotry and xenophobia, Toledoans met him with a LOVE fest, declaring resoundingly that his fear mongering is not welcome in Toledo. Here is my favorite picture from the rally: Earlier, … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Beautiful, Bigotry, Control, Donald Trump, Experience, facebook, Fear, Free Speech, Hate, Illegal, Karma, Law, Law Enforcement, Love, Media, Military, Muslims, Partisan, Police, Political, Politics, Present, Protesters, Security, Time, Toledo, Women, Xenophobia
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POEM: Hippie Hippie Array!
I am A bohemian, man Razing consciousness wherever Or whatever I happen to wander about Are you Brushed off by my long hair While you suck it up All the err Straining awe of your shabby tension In the face … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Consciousness, Demonstrators, Gender, Gift, Holy, Hope, Intellect, Joy, Lazy, Poems, Poetry, Spiritual, Superficial, Top Pun
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POEM: Technicolored Jesus
Is it time for one of those Come to Jesus moments Wear there is skin in the game Beyond black and white Word And what surrounds Words Becoming flesh Another flood In a see of Red between the lyin’s More … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Blessed, Christianity, Doctrine, Enlightenment, Hell, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Nonviolence, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Racism, Religion, skin in the game, Slavery, Soul, Time, Violence
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POEM: Wore On Tear
Awe bored Fore the hole story Yet an other Titanic undertaking Where the rats no What we do knot Yet to know a veil Sew far Out too see When icy masses And steel mete Tearing at the sole As … Continue reading
POEM: A Bout As Helpful
He axed Are you a Christian? Sow bound to answer I am Though that is a bout As helpful As siding the fact That I am American When in truth Such a confining chide Might only be a parent As … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Creation, Death, Evolution, Experience, Gandhi, Gender, Hindu, Life, Muslim, Nationalism, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Religious, Short Poems, Transcendent, Truth, Universe
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POEM: Elephants Prey: Never Forget
What too due Reguarding Assault weepin’s With prey Open season to ignore Smack in the middle Of the roam Elephants And cons of all sorts In outraged equality And dubious cause As attacks increase Their roil highness And unquestionable ump … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, America, Anti-Gun, Depression, Equality, Fear, Future, God, Guns, Hate, Hell, Homophobia, Mother Jones, Poems, Poetry, Political, Pride, Queer, Racism, Second Amendment, Silence, Violence
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PEACE POEM: Tiny Wholes Draining
They all believed In peace Except each peace was small enough Too fit in the war machine Hope draining through their tiny wholes Of a grater good Greasing sow Called enemies As awe weighs sum won ails Pain the accost … Continue reading
POEM: Mirror Winning In a Close Shave
That mine-blowing moment finally came Where he saw his enemy Face to efface That fateful mourning Infinitely more dangerous And dreadfully more thorny Than blood drawn in a close shave Like a glance to the heart None other Then his … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Awe, Creation, Experience, Heart, Humanity, Mourning, Philosophical, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Projection, Psychology, Self-Discovery, Short Poems, Truth
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EPIC POEM: As Night Watch Man
In the deep Of the knight Watch man Finding one self prone Where singular stars obscure As perpetual high noon Where time stops Straight up Where the sun don’t shine Like a broken time peace With patients in undated Wear … Continue reading
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: Another Martyr Bides The Dust
Another martyr bides the dust And I was a stray Beside myself In the fog Of yet another mourning The missed over my heart Feeling only that ephemeral beaten The wait on my brain Fueled into thinking of the dread … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Character, Children, Church, Civil Disobedience, Community, Compassion, Conscience, Conservative, Death, Dorothy Day, Elite, Environmental, Family, Fear, Freedom, God, government, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Hope, Human Race, Imperialism, Integrity, Jesus, Life, Love, Martyr, Militarism, Military, Mourning, National, nobel peace prize, Obedience, Occupy Wall Street, Oligarchy, Poems, Poet, Political, Poverty, Power, Prison, Protests, Religious, Religious Freedom, Risk, Sacred, State, Time, Truth, Wall Street, War, Women, Work
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POEM: Wee Civil Lies: They Brutalize
We are prone Too civil lies The most savage saving Buy brutal lies As assuredly As they had Been stood up Just the same For their own Good Won morality for us None for them Hidden as mirror Human eyes … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, China, Death, Equality, Evil, Failure, Fear, Hate, Heart, Human Rights, Humanity, Imperialism, Justice, Life, Love, Morality, Nationalism, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Privilege, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Security, State, Terrorism, Violence, War
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POEM: Nazi Murder Trials, 1963
Courting the truth Their stories were tolled Not simply for just us But for awe of them Beyond monumental To re-member A broken body politic This poem was inspired by the 2015 German movie, Labyrinth of Lies, about a young … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Character, Citizens, Courage, Denial, Fascism, government, Healing, History, Humanity, Hypocrisy, Image, Justice, Learning, Love, Murder, National, Nationalism, Nazi, Obedience, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Redemption, Romantic, Short Poems, Socialism, Time, Truth, War, War Crimes, Women
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