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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: The Problem with Violence
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- POEM: Awe is Not Lost
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- POEM: The Future, The Passed
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Tag Archives: Reality
POEM: By No Means Necessary
By No Means Necessary When the strident are Up in arms Staking their claims By any means necessary May such a battlefield Arouse patience strewn A bout Of faith Inciting our most gratuitous hopes By any kinds possible The prison … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Community, Compulsion, Cynical, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Kindness, Life, Militant, Moral, Morality, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Present, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, skin in the game
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POEM: Rumi-nation
I live in a perpetual Rumi-nation This simple one-line poem reflects a basic experience in my life, in general, and as a poet. As a poet, my mind, at times, drifts into aha moments of epiphanies, and at times, races … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Experience, Illegal, Immigration, Life, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, One-line Poems, Poet, Poetry, Reality, Rumi, Time
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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: Hope Inflamed
Hope Inflamed Hope inflamed That which cannot be Put out Will consume every individual Testing their mettle Forging in feeleds Just discovered From a crucible witch lies unknown Alloys forever Stronger than any metal Purely a loan No matter How … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Death, Denial, Dystopia, Enemies, Enlightenment, Existential, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Gandhi, Hope, Jesus, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Patriotism, Poems, Power, Powers that be, Protest Poetry, Reality, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Soul, State, Transcendent, Trust, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Tracing Humanity
Tracing Humanity They say that You can tell A lot About a person By what they do This, of course, is on track Still, there is a better weigh The difference between animals and humans That which earthly scales can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Authority, Balance, Character, Choices, Control, Conundrum, Ethics, Experience, Faith, Freedom, Harmony, Heart, Humanity, Integrity, Kids, Life, Logic, Moral, Morality, Perspective, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Psychology, Reality, Rebellion, Sacred, Secrets, Serenity, Skepticism, Spiritual, Spirituality, Truth, Worldview
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POEM: Revolutions Violent
Revolutions Violent Any revolution That must dispose of enemies Remains Mirrorly A turning Of the tables Going round Not with standing How grate thou Art And wore A game that can only Play you Fraught with duel intentions That two-sided … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Demonization, Denial, Enemies, Evil, God, Hope, Life, Mind, Play, Poems, Poetry, Punishment, Reality, Responsibility, Revolution, Sacred, Truth, Violence, War
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POEM: Navy Yard Killings
Navy Yard Killings In these crazy times Of senseless killings Nations seek a return To sensible killings There are many levels of crazy. There are perhaps even more levels of crazy when it comes to killing. I am not surprised … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Business, Compassion, Crazy, Dream, Empathy, Family, God, Grace, Heart, History, Hope, Irony, Love, Military, Navy, Normal, Obama, Pacifism, Poems, Poet, Power, President, Projection, Reality, Short Poems, Slavery, Sleep, Status, Violence, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Paying Attention
Are you too broke to pay attention? This one-line poem most directly seeks to de-link material wealth from perhaps the greatest tool available to humans: consciousness, or mindfulness. Being able to access mindfulness, regardless of wealth, status, or “worldly” power, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Compassion, Consciousness, Empathy, Enlightenment, Equality, God, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Humility, Justice, Life, Mindfulness, One-line Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Short Poems, Status, Subjectivity, Suffering, Wealth
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POEM: Escaping Hubris
Indigency is the quickest road Out of hubris Few of us can afford Its high price Hubris, or arrogance, is powerfully seductive in the human mind. This excessive self-confidence seems to be an inescapable part of egocentricity. Nonetheless, as humans … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Attitude, Choices, Compassion, Control, Cruelty, Empathy, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Mind, Modern, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Psychology, Reality, Risk, Short Poems, Spiritual, State, Trust, Universe, Vulnerability, Wealth
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POEM: Work Week
One day I didn’t feel like going to work Some people call them weekdays This one goes out to all of you who feel, chronically and/or acutely, that going to work is, well…work. I wouldn’t mind being the guy who … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Class Warfare, Culture, Dream, Economic, Experience, Freedom, God, Greed, Hindu, Jewish, Jobs, Journey, Karma, Learning, Life, Mind, Mindfulness, Money, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Sabbath, Security, Short Poems, Spiritual, Wealth, Western Civilization, Work
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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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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
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