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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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Tag Archives: Mourning
POEM: A Befitting Size, That Matters
Starring on the big screen Used to dominate young dreams Super-sizing them for mass consumption Today, celluloid immortality miniaturizes So five minutes ago Small screens test us As we flail miserably In a feudal limbo ‘Tween Puffed up images Flickering … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Balance, Celebrity, Consumption, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Efficiency, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Image, Impersonal, Institutions, Media, Mind, Mourning, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Relationships, Status, Technology, Temptation, Time, Wealth, Western Civilization, Worship
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Testimony to NRC to Shut Down Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant
Below is my testimony for today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s public hearing regarding the potential re-licensing of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant: My name is Dan Rutt. So, what are my credentials for being here tonight? I live in the kill … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political Action
Tagged America, Children, Congress, Death, Democracy, Environment, Faith, Farce, Future, Hope, Job, Jobs, Life, Mother Earth, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poet, Possibility, Power, Probability, Prophet, Public Health, Reality, Rich, Shareholder, Titanic, Top Pun, Work
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POEM: Davis-Besse Nuclear Disaster – “Good Job”
It was early Monday mourning When the Davis-Besse nuclear plant Finally ruptured At the base of Lake Eerie Weeping poison From the once-great lakes Now a watery grave for both sellers And consumers Of atomic drivel For what human remains … Continue reading
POEM: Fermi Too
From Detroit to Toledo I drive by and by Monroe’s Fermi 2 Nuclear waste tower Falling over Penning only A plume of death In place of this poet A prophet taking Having called for its decommissioning Offers no comfort Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Commercial, Creation, Death, God, Insanity, Life, Loss, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Police, Power, Prophet, Protesters, Security, Toledo
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POEM: Lust Potential
Lust Potential He looked about him And saw Their cups were filled Even overflowing And still He mourned The size of their cups Years ago, I heard a description of heaven as a place where no matter the size of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Acceptance, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Envy, Experience, Fear, God, Heaven, Image, Inspiration, Jealousy, Joy, Life, Loss, Love, Mourning, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Redemption, Scarcity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Work, Worldview
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POEM: An Answer to the Problem of Evil
An Answer to the Problem of Evil One morning God woke up Before there was such a thing as morning God was well pleased with God’s self “I know that I am all that!” In fact, the only thing better … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Balance, Enlightenment, Events, Evil, Experience, Gift, God, Grace, Hope, Humility, Ironic, Learning, Life, Loss, Meaning, Mourning, Nature, Perspective, Philosophical, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Redemption, Sacrifice, Short Poems, Spiritual, Transcendence, Transcendent, Wisdom
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POEM: Chapter 58 – Isaiah
Chapter 58 – Isaiah Isaiah was a man A kind of a man More generous than his wealth Untouchable by another’s profits With a frugality beyond any poverty He was a gentle man With a purposefulness typically beyond words Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Ancient, Bible, Change, Civil Disobedience, Courage, Cruelty, Economic, Evil, Faith, Food, Freedom, God, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Injustice, Irony, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Modern, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Ode, Oppression, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Present, Prison, Quotes, Rebellion, Rich, Sabbath, Social Justice, Time, Violence, War, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Fringe Benefits
Living on the fringe Has benefits I thought that this short poem would have been the seed for a larger poem, but the more I thought about it, I didn’t want to mess with the simple elegance of it. Since … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Diminishing Returns, Dreams, Free market, Happiness, Health Care, Health Insurance, Hope, Job, Journey, Life, Living Simply, Market, Money, Mourning, Pastor, Poems, Poetry, Power, Proverb, Rich, Security, Short Poems, Time, Vocation, 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
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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: Countless Dawnings
Countless Dawnings Now I find myself In the middle Of the night Before futures tolled Unfettered from the past Heedless of tomorrow’s agenda Yesterday’s experiences Nothing but gleaned fuel Abundantly supplying Mediums in a peerless world Wear darkness is my … Continue reading