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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: Awe is Not Lost
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- POEM: The Future, The Passed
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- POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
- POEM: Healing Fire
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Tag Archives: Diversity
A Spiritual Autobiography
I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group. While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Gay, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anxiety, Art, Authority, Beautiful, Bible, Blessed, Buddhism, Business, Catholic, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Disobedience, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Crude, Death, Diversity, Draft Registration, Environment, Events, Experience, Faith, Family, Food, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Hope, Humor, Irreverence, Jester, Job, Journey, Justice, Kids, Law, leadership, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, Mennonite, Military, Mind, Mom, Money, Mystic, Nutrition, Obedience, Pacifism, Pastor, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Political, Poor, Poverty, Powers that be, Prayer, President, Public Health, Religious, Reverence, Science, Security, Serenity, Social Justice, Spiritual, Stewardship, Success, Theology, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Vegetarianism, War, Work, World Hunger, Worship, Zen
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HOPE POEM: Why God Invented Dark
God invented dark As a respite From high noon That searing sun Of which mortal men are made To see Sow much more Innumerable lofty stars Unseen in mere day dreams Beyond won’s highest hopes Awe at once A mist … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Control, Death, Diversity, Donald Trump, Dreams, Existential, Fear, God, Heart, Hope, Life, Mind, Moral, Nature, Opposites, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Reality, Skepticism, Sleep, Time, Unity, Values
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POLITICAL POEM: Pick You’re Genocide
Pick You’re genocide Won side or the other Gun to head Ahead to gun Aliens pervade our atmosphere As whirled wore thee Restless natives no so slight Wear homieland security rules Redcoats and bluecoats Everyday cover ups Of fuzz overruling … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Change, Choices, Congress, Courage, Democracy, Diversity, Domination, Elections, Evolution, Faith, Fear, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Mind, Money, National, Optimism, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Rage, Revolution, Revolutionary, Rich, Rules, Security, Silence, Sustainable, Time, Voters, Voting, Work
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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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POEM: They Knot His and Her — Owed To Gender Fluidity
They cross that strait When they get two it As engender queer In mirrorly two be Or knot too be This poem is an ode to gender fluidity, to anyone who looks in the mirror and sees a different gender … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Diversity, Equality, Female, Future, Gender, History, Identity, Justice, Life, Ode, Poetry, Political, Pride, Queer, Reactionary, Short Poems, Social Justice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Transgender
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POEM: Forging Another Plan It
Politics Is just Another plan it Plutocracy The best Money can bye This short poem is about money in politics, the ultimate manifestation of which is plutocracy. When money is king, you can say good buy to democracy. Do you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Debt, Democracy, Diversity, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Love, Money, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Rich, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Surreal, Wall Street
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POEM: A Royal Buzzkill
Bee The change That you wish In the whirled Too see O Mother Earth Undertaking Men o’ pause In-fertility rite As nature fecund wanes A roil buzzkill Soon with death teeming Wear is thy sting Extincting that human race Soully … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Climate Change, Consumption, Culture, Death, Defense, Denial, Disease, Diversity, Domination, Einstein, Environment, Environmental, Evolution, Extinction, Food, Harmony, Human Race, Life, Loss, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Sustainable
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Silence Will Not Protect You
Your Silence Will Not Protect You – Pink Triangle–Gay Pride Rainbow Shop BUTTON Your Silence Will Not Protect You – Pink Triangle–Gay Pride Rainbow Shop BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Political and Philosophical Musings, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Community, Compassion, cool design, Disenfranchised, Disillusionment, Diversity, Experience, Humanity, Illusions, Learning, Life, Minorities, Minority, Normal, Paradoxes, Pink Triangle, Political, Pride, Queer, Reality, Silence, Time, Top Pun, Work
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Homosexual Agenda
Homosexual Agenda – Spend Time with Family – Be Treated Equally – Buy Milk Homosexual Agenda – Spend Time with Family – Be Treated Equally – Buy Milk–Gay Pride Rainbow Store FUNNY BUTTON This cool design is linked to a … Continue reading →