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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: As Rorschach Attest
- POEM: In the Twinkle of an I
- POEM: Barn Dominion – Owed to Luke 12:16-21
- POEM: Life Pros
- Elon MUSK – The Stench of Wealth – Not Just, For Men
- POEM: A Warming to Others
- POEM: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- POEM: Getting It
- POEM: O Pose, Such Ruling Class
- POEM: All Consuming Tax
- POEM: A Penthouse Look Out
- POEM: Mote of Sand
- POEM: Whacky Wisdom
- POEM: On Call
- POEM: Jesus Sends His Disregards
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- POEMS: Walls Crack Me Up
- POEM: The Dark Aside
- POEM: Captivated by Awe Kinds of Gracious Arts
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Tag Archives: Meaning
POEM: Disillusionment
You say that you’re disillusioned like it’s a bad thing My whole life I’ve heard people talk about being disillusioned in one way or another. Not once have I heard this with anything but a negative connotation. This one line … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Cynicism, Disillusionment, Enlightenment, Gratitude, Hope, Humanity, Illusions, Life, Meaning, One-line Poems, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Truth
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POEM: Monkeys with Typewriters
If you put a hundred monkeys with typewriters in a room Would there be any way to tell That it wasn’t the Fox News copy room? This short poem is a parody of both the infinite monkey theorem and Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Blessing, Christian, Conservative, Evolution, Fox News, Meaning, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Probability, Randomness, Shakespeare, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Universe, Work
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POEM: Smoking Guns
Smoking Guns Gun control is their aim Bringing a bout Sad states And a stag nation Wear points are sported Big bucks are the game Triggering depression Beyond one’s cope Looking down The business end Of a gun shaking As … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Citizens, Congress, Control, Crude, Death, Depression, Dreams, Experience, Family, Firearms, Guns, Kids, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Mental Health, Mourning, Murder, Nature, Political, Public Health, Reality, Science, Sleep, State, Suicide, Women
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POEM: Walling Yourself In
I am reason Number 921 For building a wall Between you and me Overly ecstatic Seemingly erratic You think that you are keeping me out But you are just walling yourself in Weather a fence Or a prison Your own … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Freedom, Irony, Meaning, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Risk, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Great Lawyer
Someone once told me I’d make a good lawyer Unfortunately Even a great lawyer Would raise their eyes To a poet As is the case with many of my poems, they are designed to have multiple interpretations, usually playing off … Continue reading
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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POEM: Light ‘n Darkness
To face darkness Lighten up Facing darkness is a serious issue. Nonetheless, the solution is light, or to double the meaning, to lighten up. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’ve been intrigued by the Zen concept of non-seriousness. A playfulness and certain detachment … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Uncategorized
Tagged Attitude, Detachment, Fear, Life, Meaning, Perspective, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Short Poems, Zen
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Julia Bates Retirement Party, Mock Award
Today a few dozen people descended upon the Lucas County Courthouse in downtown Toledo, Ohio, to wish Lucas County Persecutor Julia Bates a happy retirement and demand justice for Danny Brown. Occupy Toledo had a cake, party hats, noisemakers, and … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political Action
Tagged Creativity, Crime, Danny Brown, Direct Democracy, Events, Farce, Funny, Injustice, Justice, Law, Meaning, Mock, Money, Moral, Murder, National, Occupy Toledo, Patience, Police, Political, Present, President, Prison, Protesters, Protests, Success, Toledo, Trust
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May Day Street Theater – Corporate Zombies vs. Village People
This is the script for the street theater production that was performed tonight to kick off Occupy Toledo‘s May Day Fest week’s worth of events: May Day Eve Celebration Occupy Toledo April 30, 2012 “The Corporate Zombies vs. The Village … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political Action
Tagged Accountability, America, Anti-Corporate, Business, Capitalism, Change, Choices, Compassion, Consumerism, Control, Corporate Personhood, Democracy, Depression, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Events, Family, Farce, Food, Funny, Future, Greed, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Inane, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Life, May Day, Meaning, Media, Military, Mock, Money, Mother Earth, Occupy Toledo, Occupy Wall Street, Oppression, Pi, Political, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Propaganda, Recession, Responsibility, Security, Slavery, Society, Soul, State, Stewardship, Suffering, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, War, Wealth, zombie
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POEM: Free Will Compelling
I find the experience of free will very compelling. I like this simple one line poem because it juxtaposes two seeming opposites. Free will is often viewed as some kind of absolute. Compulsion is on the other end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Choices, Compulsion, Consciousness, Conundrum, Creativity, Epistemology, Existential, Experience, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, Genius, God, Ironic, Meaning, One-line Poems, Opposites, Reality, Respect, Sartre, Stupid, Subjectivity, Work
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Will Work for Change
Will Work for Change-POLITICAL BUTTON Will Work for Change-POLITICAL 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 be accessed … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Business, Change, cool design, Freedom, Justice, Life, Living Simply, Living Wage, Love, Meaning, Money, Political, Slavery, Social Justice, Success, Top Pun, Work
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POEM: Wrong Ballpark
Being in the wrong ballpark is a mere scheduling error Maybe I need a game changer This simple two-line poem is meant to challenge the reader regarding both the size and nature of change that may be needed to change … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Change, Diminishing Returns, Image, Insanity, Life, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Paradigm Shift, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems
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POEM: Arguing with Atheists
Arguing with atheists is like panning for gold in a bathtub. This one line poem is certainly provocative, and probably dangerous. First I would like to concede that I cannot prove that God exists. Secondly, and equally, I don’t think … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Absurdity, Argument, Athiest, Conflict, Existential, Experience, Foolish, God, Heart, Intellect, Life, Materialism, Meaning, Modern, Musings, Objectivity, One-line Poems, Philosophy, Reality, Rules, Scientific Reductionism, Simplicity, Subjectivity, Thiest
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Obama Shifts Military Defense Cuts to Domestic Programs
George Zornick blogs in The Nation about Obama’s Plan to Save the Military From Cuts—at the Expense of Domestic Programs. Here is an excerpt: “As budget wonks comb over President Obama’s outline for fiscal year 2013, a startling White House … Continue reading
POEM: Getting Your Ducks in a Row
I once put all my ducks in a row Only then realizing What am I doing with all these ducks?! Getting one’s ducks in a row is an idiom or metaphor that most people are familiar with, meaning that we … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Business, Busyness, Chaos, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Freedom, Future, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idioms, John Lennon, Laziness, Lazy, Learning, Life, Meaning, Mind, Objectivity, Perspective, Physics, Poet, Poetry, Productivity, Quotes, Reality, Rumi, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Simplicity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Subjectivity, Time, Universe, Work, Yogi Berra
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Direction Headed
If Do Not Change Direction End Up Where Headed–PEACE QUOTE BUTTON If Do Not Change Direction End Up Where Headed–PEACE QUOTE BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, … Continue reading →