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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: Empty Page
- POEM: An Other – Language
- POEM: Suicidal?
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- POEM: A Veritable Zoo
- POEM: That Infinite See Waving
- POEM: Realty Pushing Back
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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
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Tag Archives: Control
THIRD PARTY POEM: A Door Number Three
A Door Number Three Caught a mist The cross Fire Between partisan streams Shooting for number won Too put out In A narrow mined field Wear white is anti-black And black is nonwhite So fanatical about your stripes Yet no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Business, Celebrity, Choices, Citizens, Control, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Dreams, Elite, Exceptionalism, Failure, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, leadership, National, Oligarchy, Partisan, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Surreal, Sustainable, Third Party, Time, Wealth, Worship
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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: Rousing Fresh Fortune
To no what is possible Sum look too the passed To undertake certainties Too due dreams untested Some are moved Bye this present Liberating futures seized And undo The knot tied And never tried How Ever prospecting possibilities in awe … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Art, Awe, Control, Curiosity, Dream, Dreams, Existential, Experience, Failure, Future, Gift, Heart, Joy, Life, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Religious, Science, Spiritual, Top Pun, Yogi Berra
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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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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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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 — His Whole: Life
His whole Life Flashed before his ayes Too living In singular moments And unrepeatable joys Awe the more In whatever may A peer As extra ordinary This 26 word poem is an example of one of my short poems crammed … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Experience, Fear, Life, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Rich, Short Poems, Theology
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POEM: Slow Mo’ Bettor Blues
Is it awe A gambol Sometimes you git Their faster In slow motion More rarefied Then a tortoise and its hair Relegated to children Of God Knowing nothing In the phase of fabled Head weigh Breeding like Rabbits Countering undeniable … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awe, Beautiful, Children, Control, Creation, Culture, Denial, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Gandhi, God, History, Holy, Hospitality, Human Nature, Humanity, Impersonal, Life, Love, Modern, Nationalism, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Reality, Relationships, Respect, Risk, Silence, Spiritual, State, Time, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview
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POEM: Keep Your Eye On The Ball
The red ball bounces Like a metronome But with less rhythm Over every lyric uncomposed Like a wrecking ball But less harmonious A juggernaut emblazoned In fire engine red But less melodious Like a no alarm fire But with less … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Control, Creativity, Culture, Dream, Foolish, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meaning, Mind, Modern, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Pop Culture, Power, Powers that be, Rationalization, Risk, Security, Torture, Western Civilization
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POEM: Know Vacancy — Owed To Co-Dependency
Are you so-so special More than a little off Renting that hallowed space Inn one’s head To fiend and faux like For what Mounts to ears A-pathetic brood Checking in weigh too often Getting your pique of the litter Wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Business, Chaos, Codependnecy, Control, Crazy, Denial, Evil, Fear, God, Grace, Hope, Intimacy, Life, Love, Normal, Play, Poems, Poetry, Relationships, Resentment, Risk, Soul
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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: Shame Old Story
A little bit Of shame Goes along Weigh Too much With blinders Knot visible In a sense Lost To over looking As awe full as life is This poem is about the overabundance of shame, a tail as owed as … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Blessing, Compassion, Control, Evil, Faith, Inspiration, Integrity, Lazy, Life, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Psychology, Punishment, Religion, Soul, Time, Work
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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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POEM: The World’s Shortest Meditation
Exhale Meditate on Mother Nature Asking only What have you done for me lately? Meditation is difficult. Meditation is exponentially more difficult for each additional minute attempted. The chattering monkeys of the mind interrupt accessing the sacred silence offered by … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Consciousness, Control, Creation, Experience, God, Gratitude, Harmony, Heart, Life, Meditation, Mind, mother nature, Mystery, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Sacred, Short Poems, Silence, Skepticism, Society, Status, Status Quo
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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PUCO Testimony – FirstEnergy Robbery of Ratepayers
Below is my testimony at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) hearing regarding the proposed corporate welfare for FirstEnergy. There was an impressive show of force by the anti-nuclear and pro-environmental folks from the region. There was a show … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Authority, Change, Congress, Control, Death, Economic, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Events, Faith, Farce, Future, government, Ironic, Job, Life, Market, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Pollution, Poor, Power, Public Health, Rich, Risk, Sustainable, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Truth, Welfare, Work
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POEM: Metings, I’d Rather Do Without
I listen To that which speaks A bigger In feeleds of dreams Wanting more Then words Aloft from fences Of unsatisfying breadth And stealy calculation Dis passionate mines As inevitable ballbusters Descending from bona fide guise Even handed lines Powerless … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Bullshit, Change, Control, Dreams, Experience, Future, Healing, Heart, Ideology, Intellect, Justice, Life, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Time, Truth
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