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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: Ebola US Over
Ebola US over When fear metes science When we no what too due Still, rabidly executing our will As wee act in sanity Cheap as rationed rationality Upscale absurdity As some fret butler Frankly red-faced, not giving a damn As … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, America, Conundrum, Courage, Culture, Disease, Enemies, Environment, Experience, Fear, Hope, Literacy, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Present, Prevention, Public Health, Reality, Risk, Science, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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POEM: The Awe Might He Acorn
The acorns fall Like reign From above As the mighty yoke is broken Flailing to grasp the gravity of the situation Each won A tiny oak Tolled by nature If only Such nuts Can hold there ground And a void … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Art, Awe, Experience, Fear, Future, Hope, Job, Joke, Life, Meaning, Muse, Nature, Normal, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Probability, Scarcity, Toledo
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POEM: A Strange Gift From Smother Earth
I awoke Too the rumble Of a river of cars Getting the goods Being trucked over and over As fuming motorists And fuelish consumers Whirled wide Tank up With great import As their gauges reach emptily A diction Beyond words … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Crude, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Gift, Humanity, Insanity, Justice, Life, Lifestyle, Military, Mind, Moral, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poetry, Pollution, Silence, Success, Suicide, Sustainable
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POEM: The Death of Poetry
A critic posed A question Is poetry dead? But for the piles of dead poets Worth only one read assent A qualm comes Over me As death summons Unwanted clarity Between write and throng Stern and bow A demanding curt … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynical, Death, Foolish, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prose, Questions, Reality, Resurrection
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POEM: Quiet the View
Hope Was Present On the horizon South East West North into the fabric of existence Be not afraid Weather Looking up Looking down Such peek experiences Are awe ways just Round the corner I haven’t published a poem in a … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Faith, Family, Fear, God, Hope, Inspiration, Jesus, Joy, Life, Love, Mind, Mom, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Present, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Seriously?!
The Zen master was nearly Finished with his instruction When he got to non-seriousness I was greatly relieved For I was taking nothing He was saying Seriously This short poem gets at one of the great paradoxes of enlightened spirituality: … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Blessed, Buddhist, Compassion, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Cynical, Disease, Enlightenment, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humor, Hypocrisy, Ideology, Joke, Life, Logic, Materialism, Materialist, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Paradoxes, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Playfulness, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rules, Sacred, Science, Short Poems, Spiritual, Spirituality, Tao, Theology, Time, Transcendence, Transcendent, Zen
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POEM: Until The Banks Overflow
In awe of creation I am Not alone There is just us Like an ever flowing stream Until the banks overflow Into unquenchable cache And from the breast Of life Sucking I am left Nothing more Than write This short … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Creation, Greed, Life, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Scarcity, Short Poems
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POEM: Evolution of a Writer
Evolution of a Writer You have evolved into quite a writer Could you write something for my company? He solicited Presumably thinking I was still into monkey business Not even grasping I was clearly out of my tree This poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Business, Commercial, Compromise, Creativity, Darwin, Depression, Evolution, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Future, Humanity, Inspiration, Ironic, Job, Joy, Life, Logic, Market, Materialist, Meaning, Money, Nature, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Present, Questions, Reality, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Sex, Simplicity, Society, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent, Truth, Vocation, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Ninja Poets
Poets are like ninjas They come from anywhere They come from nowhere Everybody has heard of them Yet few actually see their work There are lots of poets. Though some might say not enough. Most people do not read poetry … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Art, Experience, God, Heart, Inspiration, Job, Joy, Life, Love, Mind, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Work
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POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
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POEM: Compassion Hoard
I may not have bread And I can afford justice My feet may be bare And still I have wings unseen A fly on the wall Reflecting on wear thou art I cons A mass Pining for eternity I see … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Control, Dream, Dreams, Experience, Faith, Fear, Food, Future, Generosity, God, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Injustice, Ironic, Irony, Journey, Joy, Justice, Love, Meaning, Mercy, Mind, Mystery, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Power, Present, Prison, Religion, Religious, Rich, Sacred, Silence, Songs, Status, Success, Time, Wealth
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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: 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: Heaven Unearth
Heaven Unearth Place Your hand in mine And I will Skip The rest Of the whirled My feat barely Touching The ground Where heaven and earth meet Together Giving thanks For earthly existence And your heavenly Place Saying a prayer … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Awe, Dream, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Inspiration, Love, Love Poems, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prayer, Prose, Risk, Valentine
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POEM: As The Tao Plunges
As The Tao Plunges I seek boundless horizons Beyond what can be billed What you can have Fore walls No bull work A retainer for passable living A cistern to dammed dreams Reining upon you Only knot to be brothered … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Advertising, America, Awe, Balance, Beautiful, Celebrity, Confucianism, Creation, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Harmony, Heart, History, Humanity, Identity, Image, Life, Logic, Mind, Modern, Nature, Nihilism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pop Culture, Propriety, Questions, Reality, Risk, Rules, Sociopathy, Superficial, Tao, Time, timeless question, Vegetarianism, Western Civilization, Work, Workplace
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POEM: State of the Union – Barack Obama
The State of the Union In come in equality Barack Hussein Obama Raising a question Of will he deliver His second state Of the union Different than the first Shot from Chicagoland Now addressing From 1600 sumpin’ Pennsylvania Avenue A … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Art, Community, Economic, Education, Equality, Experience, Family, Fear, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Identity, Income, Inequality, Intellect, Irony, Joy, Law, Lawyer, Lazy, Life, Minority, Money, Navy, Obama, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Present, President, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Rhetoric, Science, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Status, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, War
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