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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: Poems
POEM: Pillar of the Community
I have a well-paid job I am a captain of industry I am a member of platinum circles I am a pillar of the community My name will live on On plaques And maybe a street I need not Pay … Continue reading
POEM: Government Listening
I’d like a government that listens More than listens in And NO, I don’t want fries with that! We need to truly listen to one another, in order to create together a democracy that represents us. Democracy is an open … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Accountability, Citizens, Democracy, Economy, government, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Questions, Reactionary, Reality, Rhetoric, Short Poems, State, Terrorism, Truth, Work
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POEM: Lifting Fog
Lifting Fog You can’t fight city hall They are too big to fail We are too small to make a difference A mere drop in a vast sea These lies can travel through vast deserts of grief and despair Like … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Authority, Cruelty, Death, Faith, Family, Fear, Genius, God, Heaven, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Jerusalem, Jesus, Justice, Labor, Life, Mind, Nihilism, Paranoid, Patience, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Proverb, Punishment, Reality, Sacred, Spiritual, Time, Transcendent, Truth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: As We Press Release
As We Press Release The defense department denies killing civilians The state department denies human rights abuses by trade partners The department of energy denies that nuclear power is anything but safe The criminal justice system denies institutional racism The … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Big Brother, Capitalism, Commercial, Conspiracy, Consumerism, Crassness, Criminal Justice System, Defense, Evolution, Expediency, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, GOP, Greed, Hell, Human Rights, Imperialism, Inane, Journalists, Justice, Labor, Life, Militarism, Military, Mind, Nuclear Power, Oppression, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Propaganda, Racism, Social Movements, Sociopathy, State, War
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POEM: Surfing The Heat Wave
Surfing The Heat Wave While surfing the heat wave I peer into my horror scope Is life a beach? What is there to sea? The age of Aquarius in retrograde Mercury rising Is it all a mirage? Whew, is this … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Balance, Climate Change, Denial, Evil, Greed, Life, Money, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Political, Politics, Protest Poetry, Skepticism, Social Movements, Stewardship
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POEM: You Can’t Do That
They told me “You can’t do that.” I replied, “Thanks, I hadn’t done anything impossible yet today.” It’s been a slow day I suspect that we are much freer than we typically realize. As Henry Ford said, “Think you can, … Continue reading
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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POEM: Man of Letters
I once met a man of letters Though you might not have recognized it Probably because he specialized in F
POEM: Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game The gods are at war A blood sport for many The spectators are plenty Seeded at the rite and Overlooking the arena As bleachers whitewash The stain power of the players Announcers pooring over each play … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action
Tagged Accountability, Art, Awe, Courage, God, Inane, Optimism, Play, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Poor, Power, Risk, Sacrifice, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Violence, War, Worship
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POEM: All is Well
The man said to me, “You seem like a malcontent, sonny.” I replied, “All is well, I’m just priming the pump.”
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Tagged Optimism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Social Movements
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POEM: Hypothetical Questions
Your hypothetical questions Have prevailed I will no longer oppose violence Except in the real world
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Tagged Nonviolence, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Short Poems, Violence
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POEM: The Innies and Outies of the Birthday of US
Here is a tribute to the immigration debate going on in the United States, as we celebrate the birthday of U.S., with a tip of the hat to Dr. Suess’ Butter Battle Book, where the conflict was over and between … Continue reading
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Tagged Conflict, Freedom, History, Immigration, Poems, Poetry, Poor, State, Xenophobia
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POEM: Poets Wages
What’s up with going to work so early? I find myself in this altered state, for such a sleepyhead Fortunately, I can work in bed No wonder poets are paid so little!
POEM: Being Human Takes Time
Being human takes time Sometimes going in slow motion Gets you there faster Neither switching channels Nor reading the last chapter first Helps the race Turn off the technology of the moment And turn on to your own life story … Continue reading
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Tagged Human Race, Humanity, Life, Poems, Poetry, Rat Race, Short Poems, Technology, Time
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POEM: Crime Novel
45 caliber opening lines for a crime novel: Jack Manchester was the kind of a guy Who would pray for the day he could swear on his mother’s grave And if you ever suspected that he was telling the truth, … Continue reading
POEM: Mother-Father of Invention
Necessity is the mother of invention The father is wholly Less certain Until paternity is decided I’ll consider other innovative bastards my brothers
POEM: Cameras Everywhere
Cameras, cameras everywhere Yet what do they survey? Eyes, eyes everywhere Yet few can see the way Big brother is here. Whether it is surveillance cameras, web or cell tracking, financial transactions or legal documents, you are being watched. Watched … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Big Brother, Culture, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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BP Tar Sands Refinery Expansion – PEOPLE’S HEARING Testimony
Below is my testimony at the PEOPLE’S HEARING to respond to the Ohio EPA’s sham public hearing on BP-Husky’ Draft Air Pollution Permit as part of their Oregon Ohio refinery re-tooling to process oil tar sands, the dirtiest oil on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Addiction, America, Ancient, Beauty, Business, Change, Children, Citizens, Community, Congress, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Economic, Environment, Environmental, government, Greed, History, Humanity, Insanity, Jobs, Justice, Life, Money, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Occupy Toledo, Play, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Power, Progress, Public Health, Scarcity, State, Stewardship, Sustainable, Tar Sands, Time, Toledo, Trust, Wealth, Women, Work
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POEM: Force of Nature
Sometimes I feel like a force of nature And when nature calls There is little resisting