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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: 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
- POEM: Fratricide
- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
- POEM: A Poet’s Currency
- POEM: Love Birds
- POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
- POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
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Tag Archives: Enemies
POEM: Hope Inflamed
Hope Inflamed Hope inflamed That which cannot be Put out Will consume every individual Testing their mettle Forging in feeleds Just discovered From a crucible witch lies unknown Alloys forever Stronger than any metal Purely a loan No matter How … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Death, Denial, Dystopia, Enemies, Enlightenment, Existential, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Gandhi, Hope, Jesus, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Patriotism, Poems, Power, Powers that be, Protest Poetry, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Soul, State, Transcendent, Trust, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Revolutions Violent
Revolutions Violent Any revolution That must dispose of enemies Remains Mirrorly A turning Of the tables Going round Not with standing How grate thou Art And wore A game that can only Play you Fraught with duel intentions That two-sided … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Demonization, Denial, Enemies, Evil, God, Hope, Life, Mind, Play, Poems, Poetry, Punishment, Reality, Responsibility, Revolution, Sacred, Truth, Violence, War
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POEM: Own Worst Enemy
One day I realized that I am my own worst enemy And as it turns out, I am a formidable foe Self-awareness seems to key to one’s own progress. This short poem offers a backhanded compliment to oneself as a … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Awareness, Consciousness, Enemies, Mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Pyschology, Self-Awareness, Self-Discovery, Short Poems, Subjectivity
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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
Tagged Accountability, Ancient, Art, Authorities, Authority, Awareness, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, budgets, Capitalism, Change, Character, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Rights, Classism, Common Good, Community, Compassion, Competition, Conscience, Consumerism, Control, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Creativity, Death, Defense, Denial, Domestic Violence, Domination, Dream, Economic, Egalitarian, Enemies, Equality, Evil, Facts, Failure, Faith, Family, Fear, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Future, Gender, Gift, God, government, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Holy, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Idolatry, Image, Immorality, Impersonal, Incarnation, Inequality, Injustice, Intimacy, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Journey, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Labor, Law, leadership, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Market, Materialism, Meaning, Mercy, Militarism, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Morality, Nationalism, Nature, Nonviolence, Patience, Patriarchy, Patriotism, Perspective, Philosophy, Piety, Political, Politics, Poor, Possessions, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Prison, Privilege, Prophet, Questioning, Questions, Racism, Radical, Rage, Reality, Reconciliation, Relationships, Religious, Responsibility, Resurrection, Revolution, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Science, Security, Sexism, Society, Solidarity, Songs, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Stewardship, Success, Suffering, Temptation, Theology, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Unjust Laws, Values, Violence, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worship
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Blessed are the Peacemakers
Blessed Are the Peacemakers – Jesus Quote–BUTTON Blessed Are the Peacemakers – Matthew 5:9 – Jesus–BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Argument, Bible, Blessed, Children, Christian, Christianity, Church, Co-option, Conscription, Conventional Wisdom, cool design, Courage, Death, Enemies, God, Hate, Jesus, Job, Martyrdom, Military, Nonviolence, Pacifism, Peacemakers, Powers that be, Quotes, Religion, Sacrifice, skin in the game, State, Top Pun, Torture, Truth, War, Wisdom
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Real Test of Power to Prevent War
PEACE QUOTE: Real Test of Power to Prevent War–PEACE SIGN BUTTON PEACE QUOTE: Real Test of Power to Prevent War–PEACE SIGN BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Accountability, Amorality, Business, Coercion, Conflict, cool design, Demonization, Enemies, Ethical, Evil, Immorality, Iran, Moral, Morality, Nature, Power, Reality, Responsibility, Top Pun, War
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POLITICAL CARTOON: Comedian Jesus – Love Your Enemies
Comedian Jesus Speaks! Welcome to Comedian Club Jesus! This is the latest installment the Top Pun series of comics that run on Sundays, featuring CEO Jesus, Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, General Jesus, Comedian Jesus, and who knows what … Continue reading
No War in Iran – Toledo and Defiance Protests
This last weekend I participated in two protests as part of the national Day of Mass Action to Stop War on Iran – February 4, 2012. On Saturday afternoon, about 15 to 20 people gathered outside the Defiance County Courthouse in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Peace Signs, Political Action
Tagged Army, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Citizens, Climate Change, Demonstrators, Enemies, Events, Heart, Hope, Iran, Militarism, National, Occupy Toledo, Political, Protesters, Protests, Quotes, State, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, War
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It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON
It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON It Takes Enemas for War to Happen-FUNNY ANTI-WAR BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Awareness, cool design, Creativity, Crude, Enemies, Funny, Humor, Moral, Musings, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Playfulness, Puns, Time, Top Pun, War, Work
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Yin Yang
PEACE SYMBOL: Yin Yang Symbol 2–BUTTON PEACE SYMBOL: Yin Yang Symbol 2–BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can … Continue reading →