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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: Progress
POEM: This Poet’s Prayer
This poem reflects my basic spirituality of ever moving toward One’s vision of the good, even as my view is a dim reflection. The One thing that I can judge my progress on is my commitment to this path yearning … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Creation, Hope, Image, Poet, Prayer, Progress, Spirituality
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POEM: Dead Beat Nation – Owed to Whose Default It Is
I wrote this poem a bout the perennial federal hostage taking and ransom demands by Republicans around raising the debt ceiling whenever they don’t have full control. This running over the country and rerunning over the country is unique to … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems
Tagged Awe, Balance, Control, Debt, Dogma, Progress, Responsibility
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Feminist POEM: Me Too — Now A Brand Knew Whirled Of Daughters
They rise from along history Yet much more so from her story As tectonic plates ready to serve up Unseen Earthquakes From a thousand generations reserved in silence Now a brand knew Whirled of daughters A raze of sisters A … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Catholic, Change, Civil Rights, Congress, Control, Crime, Denial, Discrimination, Employment, evangelicals, Experience, Faith, Feminist, Forgiveness, Future, Gender, Health Care, Hell, History, Holy, Immigration, Inspiration, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Me Too movement, Money, National, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Present, Progress, Sex, sexual assault, Silence, State, Status, Supreme Court, Time, Trust, Truth, Women, Workplace, Worldview
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Donald Trump Swamped With Taxing Situations, Declares MOST UNDRAINING EVER!
Donald Trump’s promise to “Drain the swamp” from Washington, DC, is perhaps his most surreal promise of all. Today, President Donald Trump is campaigning for Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been facing mounting credible evidence of his predatory sexual … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Competition, Congress, Corruption, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economic, Economy, Egalitarian, Elite, Enemies, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Faith, Family, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Future, Genius, History, Housing, Hypocrisy, Image, Income, Inequality, Institutions, Intellectual Property, Irony, Jobs, Justice, Labor, Law, libertarian, Mind, Partisan, Perspective, Political, Politics, Power, President, Progress, Republican, Risk, Roy Moore, Rules, State, Surreal, Time, Trust, Truth, Values, Voters, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Cruel After Math — Owed to Sen. Rob Portman’s Health Care Vote
What kind? Of cruel after-math Is Sen. Portman working up The American people Facing death Bye the tens of thousands Buy the tens of billions For tax cuts For the richest Americans For loaded corporations drunk on power What is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Poems, Political Action
Tagged Congress, Death, Health Care, Partisan, Poetry, Power, Progress, Protesters, Sen. Rob Portman, Toledo
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FREE EDWARD SNOWDEN POSTER: Pardon Me!
Edward Snowden, the infamous NSA whistleblower, is my candidate for the most heroic American this decade. Is it time for President Obama to grant a presidential pardon to Edward Snowden? YES! The campaign is on, with the release of Oliver … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political Action
Tagged Authoritarian, Change, China, Citizens, Congress, Conspiracy, Culture, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Experience, Family, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Gift, government, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Human Rights, Journalists, Journey, Law, Lawyer, Life, Logic, National, National Security, Obama, Patriot, Perspective, Police, Political, Possibility, Power, President, Progress, Right-Wing, Risk, Russia, Security, State, Time, War, Whistleblower, Work
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POEM: Mad ’em Presidents
Knowing either jack or Jill Raze your Stein As Donald Trump sucks The “Oh too” out of the room Plenty of space In the huge check Box Of which to think out of Beyond first lady and commander-in-chief Paid in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Choices, Crises, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Fear, Feminist, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, President, Progress, Republican, State, Surreal, Third Party, Top Pun, Values, Voters, Voting, Women
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Anti-Trump, Anti-Hillary FREE POSTER: Newsflash — Stockholm Syndrome Renamed Washington Syndrome, Voters Held Hostage
This free Anti-Trump, Anti-Hillary poster announces the sad, traumatic news: NEWSFLASH — Stockholm Syndrome Renamed Washington Syndrome. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the presidential candidates with the highest negative ratings in modern U.S. history. Voters are held hostage in an … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Compromise, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economic, Empathy, Envy, Evolution, free poster, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, History, Human Rights, Jill Stein, Kindness, Modern, Political, Politics, President, Progress, Rationalization, Resistance, Revolution, Risk, Time, Top Pun, Values, Voters
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REAL POLITICS, REAL CANDIDATE: Jill Stein 2016 Platform
IF you want a progressive presidential candidate that you can get excited about voting FOR, then Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate is worth serious consideration. Jill Stein has selected her Green Party running mate, Vice President choice, Ajamu Baraka. … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Incremental Change, Heads Up!
This free political poster posits that the conventional wisdom of incremental change can be lethal to paradigm shifts needed for humanity to evolve to the next level. Devotees of incremental change may view death by degrees as safer, or at least … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Ballot, Change, Chaos, Compromise, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Democracy, Donald Trump, Evil, Evolution, Experience, Fear, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, God, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, Injustice, Liberation Theology, Life, Love, Paradigm Shift, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Preferential Option for the Poor, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Status, Status Quo, Sustainable, Theology, Top Pun, Truth, Values, Voting, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Enlightenment Not Worth Beings
Conversing in the street At a protest We had a very enlightening pow wow As too in form me He stated with qualm assurance “Protest before enlightenment, protest after enlightenment” A parity of action Like I had never seen To … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Accountability, Amorality, Balance, Enlightenment, Evil, God, Human Rights, Individualism, Insanity, Life, Materialism, Meaning, Nature, New Age, Philosophy, Present, Privilege, Progress, Reactionary, Religion, Society, Soul, Spiritual, Spirituality, Trust, Truth
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POEM: Zombie Apocalypse — Carry On
In habiting That thin lyin’ Between living and undead Pray and prey Plodding for survival so chaste Eerie reverence For awe virtually unmoving They’ve got You’re numb-er Too many to re-pulse To take account of De-sending from cubicles and proto-calls … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Apocalypse, Art, Awe, Culture, Existential, Fear, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Genius, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Incarnation, Institutions, Life, Nature, Power, Powers that be, Present, Progress, Projection, Reverence, Soul, Suffering, Surreal, Work, zombie
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POEM: Weepin of Choice
His unwillingness to be a victim Soully exceeded Buy his willfulness to be a perpetrator Better to have Willed a gun Than mirrorly get A ballad in ahead That imminently natural selection Of hapless pray Re: in force Such patriotic … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cautionary Tale, Children, Creation, Death, Evil, Gift, God, Hate, Hell, Hope, Humanity, Job, Jobs, Kindness, Life, Loss, Mind, Murder, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rationalization, Religious, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, skin in the game, Soul, Spiritual, Values, Violence, War, Willingness, Worldview
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POEM: Annoys Pollution
Every wear but hear Beeping phones And nobody at home Impossible to a tone Even with wringing personally With poor timing Watching volumes A little too lewd Mindless won And awe the artless With every bell and whistle Ears unplugged … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Art, Awe, Busyness, Civil Disobedience, Employment, Freedom, Funny, Inane, Life, Logic, Mind, Mindfulness, Modern, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pollution, Poor, Progress, Religion, Responsibility, Silence, Spiritual, Western Civilization, Zen
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POEM: A Ghastly Alchemy
For just Some Dam Weepin’s permit I protect and serve Up my enemies Like Cold Turkey Shoot Only to rifle But growing ode In a ghastly alchemy Silver bullets turning to lead Down the wrong path Instantly poisoned Hearts and … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Common Good, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Democracy, Denial, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Greed, Guns, Human Rights, Ideals, Life, Loss, Moral, Morality, Nonviolence, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Rage, Responsibility, Sacred, Sacrifice, Selfish, Violence, Virtue, Work
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POEM: Model Citizen
Rowan was a model citizen One-eighth scale Painstakingly posed With animating make up Almost lifelike This short poem, “Model Citizen,” is a reflection on the life-like which should only be mistaken for life at one’s own peril — or, in … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Change, Citizens, Citizenship, Cliche, Common Good, Community, Consumption, Culture, Death, Democracy, Economy, Elite, Evil, Gandhi, Illusions, Life, Market, Modern, Nature, Play, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Progress, Proprietary, Reality, Religious, Resistance, Rich, Risk, Short Poems, Society, Status, Status Quo, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization
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POEM: Pseudoscience
After a cursory perusal Of your uncorroborated facts In your unverified application We are pleased to accept The donation of your brain To pseudoscience The great thing about donating your brain to pseudoscience is that such brains are largely unused. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged algorithm, America, Conspiracy, Economy, Facts, government, Irony, Life, Literacy, Logic, Media, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Proprietary, Pseudoscience, Science, Short Poems, Truth, Western Civilization
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