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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: Wore No More
- POEM: Black Pill Shooters
- POEM: A Singular View – Owed to No Won Ails
- POEM: Voices in the Wilderness
- POEM: Landed Gentry
- POEM: I of the Storm
- POEMS: Haves and Halve Knots
- POEM: A Knew Horizon
- POEM: A Nation Stupefied
- POEM: More
- POEM: Borders
- POEM: In Awe Probability
- POEM: Tao Remains
- POEM: Top Down, Bottom Up
- POEM: Be Getting
- POEM: Hi Def
- POEM: Star Power
- POEM: Stupid Verses Wisdom
- POEM: Beyond Laudable
- POEM: To Tithe or Knot Too Tithe
- POEM: For Letter Words
- POEM: Opening Up
- POEM: A Wiled Woman
- POEM: Cheeto Wrapper
- POEM: Rooting for Light
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BICYCLING POEM: Mother Earth And Her Cycles
Mother Earth Has her cycles Look out! Respect her cycles Don’t be a fossil fool Ride that bike! Powered by living humans Not dead relics Exorcise those fossils, fool! Ride that bike! Get that warm feeling And cool breeze The … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Bicycling, Gift, Joy, Love, Mindfulness, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Solidarity, Virtue
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RAMBO JESUS: Taking U.S. To School – Salvation is in Hand – This Time You’ll Pay For Your Own Sins
In surreal fashion, I await for the U.S. followers of The Prince of Peace to provide moral leadership in fighting the unrelenting epidemic of mass shootings carried out with military-style guns. Perhaps U.S. Christians are too busy making plans to … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Cartoon, Children, Christian, Death, Funny, Guns, Hypocrisy, Jesus, leadership, Love, Military, Moral, Parodies, Political, Prevention, Right-Wing, Surreal, Time, Violence
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FREE ANTI-TRUMP POSTER: Trump Touts Pillar of Jobs Program – Lowest black unemployment since slavery, and I promise a return to 100 percent black employment
This free poster melds the themes of Prez Donald Trump’s love of capital over workers and his palpable racism. The Trump tax plan is proof enough that The Don doesn’t care about increasing income inequality and that redressing Black economic … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Creation, Donald Trump, Economic, Economy, Employment, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Income, Inequality, Job, Jobs, Labor, Love, Productivity, Racism, Slavery, Wealth, Work
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: The Abominable Snowjob – DONALD TRUMP My Tax Plan Was Pulled From Heaven. I Have Star Power – TAX CUTS FOR RICH in yellow snow.
Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans announced that they have agreed upon a tax scam that will come up for a vote next week. This tax legislation has not had a single public hearing! This tax scam has a worse … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Donald Trump, Dream, Enemies, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Heaven, Love, Political, Power, Republican, Rich
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FREE POSTER: Jesus breaks silence on Senate candidate Roy Moore Just Saying NO Moore
What sexual predator would Jesus support to hold the keys of public trust? It’s time to say “NO more!” In the current case of Senate candidate Roy Moore, it’s time to say “NO Moore!” American so-called Christians have been practicing … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Character, Community, Control, Donald Trump, Enemies, Evil, Faith, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, GOP, Heart, Hell, Institutions, Jesus, Law, Law Enforcement, Love, Martyr, Media, Moral, National, Political, Politics, Power, President, Religious, Republican, Roy Moore, sexual assault, Silence, State, Supreme Court, Tea Party, Time, Trust, Voters, Women
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Senator ROB Portman “The GRINCH” Putting The ROB in Christmas
This free political poster is inspired by the pathetic and horrific tax cuts for the rich that congressional Republicans are pushing like crack for the wealthy this Christmas season. The Senate Republican bill even includes a repeal of the individual … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political Action
Tagged Christmas, Citizens, Debt, Economy, Equality, Fear, free poster, Free Posters, God, Grace, Greed, Grinch, Health Care, Health Insurance, Holy, Hope, Income, Love, Money, Obama, Outrage, Parity or Parody, Political, Politics, Poor, Republican, Revolution, Rich, Satire, Sen. Rob Portman, taxes, Toledo, Voters
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POEM: Promedica My Ass — Owed To Branding
Logos used Too mean Know ledge Like that age owed ad vice Would you jump off a bridge If every won ails did As in sayin’ Bye your good will As money oozes from the non-prophet, health care (sic) system … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Family, Gandhi, Genius, Health Care, Justice, Life, Living Wage, Love, Money, Mourning, Poet, Poetry, ProMedica, Prophet, Proprietary, Propriety, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Tao, Time, Toledo
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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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POLITICAL POEM: Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found
Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found Sow culpable Too due nothing President Trump pulls out What little hand He had in Mother Earth’s Safe guarding His oily and gassy mates Coal for everyone! It’s like Christmas!! And stocks sore … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Business, Change, Children, Christmas, Climate Change, Community, Defense, Denial, Donald Trump, Environmental, Free market, government, Hope, Humanity, Insanity, Kindness, Law, leadership, Love, Market, Meditation, Mother Earth, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propriety, Resistance, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Russia, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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Democracy Day : 5 Minutes of Democracy
Today is Democracy Day, mandated by a people’s resolution to Toledo City Council, spearheaded by Toledo Move To Amend, declaring that corporations are not people and money is not free speech. Today’s forum in Toledo City Council chambers, albeit with … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged budgets, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, Family, Free Speech, Gift, government, Heart, Love, Mind, Money, Move to Amend, Oligarchy, Play, Plutocracy, Political, Politics, Power, ProMedica, Sacred, Silence, Sleep, Time, Toledo, Trust
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump U Verses Screw U
O pose The establishment Of his style Outside is in Down with up As drive in reveres “I love sow and sow more than anyone” And awe That is Con men Selling Brooklyn bridges To no where That is good … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Chaos, Creativity, Democracy, Donald Trump, government, Hope, Humanity, Labor, Love, Moral, Nationalism, Oligarchy, Partisan, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, Resistance, Rich, Security, Society, Solidarity, Unity, Women, Xenophobia
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POLITICAL POEM: Unite In The Write
Poets of the world unite Delivering a bill of writes To the regressive elite And overcompensating narcissists May the love of word in deed Translate into a raging river of love Pounding against that professed shore thing Strait from the … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, Short Poems, Solidarity, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: You Don’t Say, And Ever Prey
To every American YES The president no’s stuff That wee don’t Real lies Pinocchio without puppeteers Cyrano’s muzzle sow credible Undisclosed pickings of boogie men Obscuring a lode of crop Not too be shared Impolite company Helled as rue’d or … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Celebrity, Civil Rights, Democracy, Donald Trump, Freedom, God, government, Journey, Love, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propaganda, Public Goods, Rhetoric, Soul, Trust, Truth, Violence, Voting
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POEM: Unforgettable
She was a spark Spanning but instant generations Clothed in stardust Naked to that place before birth and after death As thought of God Less of a dream More of a smile Merging within that space-time continuum On the face … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Death, Defense, Dream, Experience, God, Hope, Joy, Life, Love, Mystical, Nature, Present, Time, Vulnerability
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POEM: As Far As One Kin See
As far as one kin see It is a sin to crush some one’s body And infinitely greater sow to crush some one’s spirit In sum vain temped too raze awe questions Can God A-bridge Between infinitude and soully you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Dreams, Enlightenment, Evolution, God, Helplessness, Hope, Humanity, Justice, Love, Ode, Questions, Soul, Violence, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Buy Partisan Ship
If you knot for me You agin Me Oh my They would halve US Believe In a New York minute Weather 60 second ads Or master debating in public For ours To won party Or buy partisan ship That teeming … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Children, Conflict, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Counter-Cultural, Enlightenment, Evolution, Freedom, God, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Injustice, Intersectionality, Jesus, Job, Justice, Life, Love, Mock, National, Nationalism, Partisan, Partisanship, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Republican, Solidarity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Trust, Unity, Violence, Wisdom
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POEM: Gone, For Good
He is gone For good A martyr defined Not buy his death Rather buy living Not confined by what is left Rather liberated by what is right That singular question What heir will you breath After being Punched in the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Experience, Inspiration, Life, Love, Martyr, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Possibility, Transcendence
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TOLEDO POEM: The Glass City Is Refillable
Have empty Have full Pundit prognosticating Weather tea town, big gulp, whine, or throwback After work All a buzz A bout how well suited politicians Re-billed a city of denim Putting out hope In efface of houses emptied And streets … Continue reading
HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness
I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research. I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged Anxiety, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Change, Character, Children, Church, Culture, Environment, Events, Experience, Future, Happiness, Heart, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Joy, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Meaning, Modern, Money, Nature, Perspective, Play, Political, Present, Psychology, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Respect, Rich, Risk, Sacrifice, Science, Selfish, Society, Soul, State, Suffering, Superficial, Surreal, Time, Values, War, Welfare, Work
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