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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: Solidarity
POLITICAL POEM: Buy Partisan Ship
If you knot for me You agin Me Oh my They would halve US Believe In a New York minute Weather 60 second ads Or master debating in public For ours To won party Or buy partisan ship That teeming … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Children, Conflict, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Counter-Cultural, Enlightenment, Evolution, Freedom, God, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Injustice, Intersectionality, Jesus, Job, Justice, Life, Love, Mock, National, Nationalism, Partisan, Partisanship, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Republican, Solidarity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Trust, Unity, Violence, Wisdom
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POEM: Mad Happy
Well I never Happy to be mad Mad too be happy This might be crazy That maybe fitting Ante this and ante that Given fighting chance And unbelievable odds Of uncounted to won Beat up and up beat Pleased as … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awe, Crazy, Existential, Experience, Injustice, Job, Justice, Life, Loss, Mourning, Outrage, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rage, Solidarity
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POEM: Standing On My Privy Ledge
I am a white, straight, Christian, male And you see that I am afraid Though paying attention To what is fare I am more afraid Of whites than blacks Of straights than queers Of Christians than Muslims Of men than … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Discrimination, Economic, Equality, Feminism, Haiti, Hate, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Intersectionality, Justice, LGBT, Life, Mennonite, Muslims, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Prison, Privilege, Public Health, Queer, Reality, Rich, Social Justice, Solidarity, Values, Vocation, Women
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Comedian Jesus: Any TRUMP? NO, Go Fish, I’m Not Playing That Game
This Comedian Jesus cartoon combines the contemporary unwanted news cycle of Donald Trump with the timeless question of: Precisely what game are you playing? This Comedian Jesus cartoon is an inspired hybrid of a pun on “Trump,” and my poem, … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged America, Cartoon, Change, Courage, Cynicism, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Elite, Equality, Exceptionalism, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, Humanity, Jesus, Play, Politics, Privilege, Propaganda, Reality, Respect, Solidarity, Time, timeless question, Transcendent, Truth, Values
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POEM: Adumbrating My Too Sense
Teeming with errs Their egos agin They took their best shot Sow prod of themselves In citing Your poetry makes no cents As if The golf between us As driven in sanity From goad above Rather demanding A stroke of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems
Tagged Addiction, Alliterate, Awe, Beauty, Genius, Heart, Job, Meaning, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Puns, Solidarity, Universe
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POEM: Owed To That Angelic Rainbow
Red of blood spilled From beautiful hearts Red of hatred Bearing queer fruit With sure fire weapons Crying Out Too much red in that angelic rainbow Never again! With only won possible Out Come In flaming community Solidarity pain the … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, News, Poems
Tagged Anti-Homophobia, Beautiful, Community, Enemies, Gender, Hate, Homophobia, LGBT, Love, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Pride, Queer, Solidarity
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POEM: Flowing Inevitably Threw Us
Our hearts were broke A cache sow, well, spent In solvent In life Long Yearnings Teaming tsunamis of solidarity Of the largesse kind Poor Over us Torn as under A heavy wait Pre-seeding A compelling yield As if Some bank … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Compassion, Dreams, Experience, Generosity, Grace, Heart, Holy, Injustice, Kindness, Life, Love, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Romantic, Serendipity, Solidarity
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POEM: To Be Read Or Not
Her life was written In the margins Tolled in fine print Subject to lexicons Beyond apprehension Not adorned by elegant types Or gaudy cursive In fancy addresses Wear truth is stranger then fiction More than won could possibly ink Never … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Celebrations, Feminism, Feminist, Healing, Life, Poems, Poetry, Sacred, Silence, Solidarity, Truth, Women
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POEM: In A Family Weigh
The future looms Sew large As we seam Sow singularly stranded In the present Weave heir A parent With know designs Beyond Sum won ails And grater still The mine wandering Too what end As life goes On and on … Continue reading
POEM: Unannunciated Power
Power came to my home for dinner Well, not actually my home, rather my house Not in person, but through a representative Witch some defer to as a medium That would be TV In accuracy, as sum political add All … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, government, Hope, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Voters, Work
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POEM: The Yeast Of These
Wile there is much bred Daily preyed for Ample for awe concerned That seemingly still Fomenting swell times A mist repleting agin and agin In dubitable motifs Giving ascent to That for most ingredient A telling signature of homme The … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Conventional Wisdom, Crime, Disenfranchised, Elite, Faith, Hope, Humanity, Impersonal, Injustice, Joy, Justice, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Normal, Pacifism, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Police, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Privilege, Rage, Reality, Resistance, Respect, Revolution, Sex, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Solidarity, State, Status, Status Quo, Success, Suffering, Truth, Violence, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Won Race
He ran his won race Not around other men’s tracks But in open fields Into sunsets and sunrises Never looking back As no one affront And know time Where mostly losers must collect Outside The whiner’s circle And still Fodder … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awareness, Awe, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Gift, Life, Loss, Passion, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Radical, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Self-Awareness, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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POEM: To Abettor Portion: Owed To Math You 5:21-48
The shepherd pays dear Attention to his sheep As the sheep due Not follow suits But accompany prophets In ways safe from a peril That compound interest in the whirled As you have herd It said You shall not murder … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged algorithm, Awe, Character, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Debt, Dehumanizing, Evil, Fear, God, Grace, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Humanity, Ideology, Jesus, Joy, Life, Love, Murder, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Prophet, Reality, Religion, Solidarity, State, Wisdom, Work, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: Are You A Friend of Dorothy?
As a friend of Dorothy Day I wood ax More than won quest in A bout Her call As a tenet in passable saint hood As if a priest to nun Or mirror lay person Aborting gaiety As an infallible … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abortion, America, Atheist, Awe, Beautiful, Catholic, Church, Citizenship, Culture, Dogma, Dorothy Day, Dream, Dreams, Elite, Faith, Gender, God, Grace, Heart, Heaven, Holy, Image, Ironic, Jesus, Life, Love, Play, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Present, Privilege, Questions, Religious, Sacred, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Wealth, Women, Work, Worship
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POEM: Unfare
Weighter Truth be tolled Whoever’s pain the bill I’d like a reseat At the table This poem addresses the truism that life is not fair. I have spent most of my life and part of most days working to address … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Citizens, Consumption, Creation, Disenfranchised, Domination, Economic, Equality, Female, Gratitude, Humanity, Justice, LGBT, Life, Patriarchy, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Present, Privilege, Respect, Short Poems, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Society, Solidarity, Truth, Work
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POEM: Where The Win Blows
He axed me What are your demands Other than justice Or saving life? Claiming that We must shed light On just said Shady distinctions I mirrorly pronounced That the win blows And we no knot wear Such goest In this … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Change, Compromise, Courage, Democracy, Faith, Genius, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Ideals, Justice, Life, Mind, Occupy Wall Street, Passion, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Privilege, Solidarity, Soul, Wall Street, Wisdom
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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self
In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Change, Denial, Events, Experience, Fear, Gandhi, God, Hate, Heart, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Love, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, Psychology, Reactionary, Reality, Rebellion, Resistance, Rich, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Success, Temptation, Time, Transcendent, Violence, Voting
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