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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: Normal Eyes
- POEM: Efficient Love
- POEM: To Arms
- POEM: The Problem with Violence
- POEM: In Sighting a Right
- POEM: I’d Give My Write Arm for the Sound of You
- POEM: Awe is Not Lost
- POEM: Unentitle Fight
- POEM: I a Door
- POEM: Arose
- POEM: Fallen Reign
- POEM: The Future, The Passed
- POEM: Your Fired
- POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
- POEM: Bred of Life
- POEM: Scorpions in a Bottle
- POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
- POEM: Healing Fire
- POEM: Net Zeroed
- POEM: Showing Up
- POEM: Taking, Their Q
- POEM: King of the Hill
- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
- POEM: Wiled Fires
- POEM: Progress
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Tag Archives: Classism
Friendly Rant: Voting FOR Jill Stein NOT Wielding “Privilege”
Oddly, with the presidential candidates from the two dominant and domineering political parties setting new records for low approval, voting for anyone else is met with bafflingly high contempt. My friend, local activist, and Green Party Jill Stein supporter, Shannon Frye, … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Ballot, Children, Classism, Compassion, Crime, Culture, Defense, Democracy, Environmental, Equality, facebook, Family, Fear, Feminism, Feminist, Food, Freedom, Future, Gender, Green Party, Hell, Hillary Clinton, History, Identity, Incarnation, Inequality, Jill Stein, Justice, Labor, Life, Logic, Medicaid, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Neoliberalism, Oppression, Police, Political, Power, President, Prison, Privilege, Queer, Racism, Rage, Religious, Revolution, Security, Sex, Sexism, Sexuality, Silence, Slavery, Social Justice, Social Security, State, Time, Truth, Violence, Voting, War, Women, Work
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POEM: Of Coarseness
Don’t put won over me F every won Flunk sexism Flunk racism Flunk classism Flunk nationalism And sow on And sow on In effability Of coarse They say Vulgarity vulgarity Every ware I look In just US The capital of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awareness, Awe, Capitalism, Classism, Crude, Employment, Experience, Farce, Injustice, Law, Life, Morality, Nationalism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Privilege, Propriety, Racism, Sacred, Sexism, Society, Status, Superficial, Surreal, Tao, Virtue
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POEM: Born With Two Black Eyes: Owed To New Be and Queens
She was born with two black eyes Living in a whirled Wear her highest aspirations Sore over the lowly color blind As every color whited out Yet she sails the sees of dark and light As two dance freely A … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Classism, Compassion, Culture, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Racism, Sacrifice, Sexism, Short Poems, Truth, Wisdom, Women
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POEM: Her Voice
Her voice could be heard Three generations within earshot Yet the man in front of her Was two ears short of listening At times she spoke Simply to convince herself That she could Due more Then listen Wading for something … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Children, Classism, Compassion, Culture, Dehumanizing, Disenfranchised, Equality, Experience, Family, Heterosexual, Human Race, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Sex, Sexism, Society, Truth, War, Women
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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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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
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
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