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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 Good, The Bad, and the Ugh-ly
- POEM: What Does The Security State?
- POEM: Edge Worthy
- POEM: Don’t Look Up, Sunny
- POEM: Yo Yo, Down With the Stock Market
- POEM: It Rains On
- POEM: A Crumb-y Life
- POEM: Knot a Frayed
- POEM: Poetry Offensive
- POEM: The End of the Line
- POEM: Republic Canned
- POEM: Doctor Doo Little’s Pushme-Pullyou
- POEM: The Braking of the Whirled
- POEM: Tyrant Spring
- POEM: Free Judgment Zone Out
- POEM: Achilles’ Heel
- POEM: The Ugly American
- POEM: Bully Silence
- POEM: God’s Will?
- POEM: Razing Up the Unbelievable
- POEM: So So Long
- POEM: The Odds Rising
- POEM: Writing as a Righting Instrument
- POEM: Who Polices Who – Owed to Luigi Mangione
- POEM: Just Encase
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HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness
I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research. I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged Anxiety, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Change, Character, Children, Church, Culture, Environment, Events, Experience, Future, Happiness, Heart, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Joy, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Meaning, Modern, Money, Nature, Perspective, Play, Political, Present, Psychology, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Respect, Rich, Risk, Sacrifice, Science, Selfish, Society, Soul, State, Suffering, Superficial, Surreal, Time, Values, War, Welfare, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Pick You’re Genocide
Pick You’re genocide Won side or the other Gun to head Ahead to gun Aliens pervade our atmosphere As whirled wore thee Restless natives no so slight Wear homieland security rules Redcoats and bluecoats Everyday cover ups Of fuzz overruling … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Change, Choices, Congress, Courage, Democracy, Diversity, Domination, Elections, Evolution, Faith, Fear, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Mind, Money, National, Optimism, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Rage, Revolution, Revolutionary, Rich, Rules, Security, Silence, Sustainable, Time, Voters, Voting, Work
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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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POEM: Naught For Prophet Fun Razing
In the crucible Of the well-heeled And the, well, heeled He surrounded himself With corporate persons Naught for prophet organizations Possessed buy a cutting edge currency paper thin The filing and folding kind Their foundational hope Nay only hope To … Continue reading
COMEDIAN JESUS: Pax Romana — You’re Killing Me!
This Comedian Jesus political cartoon highlights the shallow liberalism and false choices of Pax Romana, the metaphorical stand-in for Pax Americana, peace through so-called enlightened domination. This Comedian Jesus cartoon also ties the all-too-convenient collaboration of political and religious elites … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Accountability, America, Authority, Awe, Cartoon, Children, Choices, Church, Citizens, Citizenship, Comics, Creation, Death, Domination, Employment, Funny, God, Hope, Ideals, Imperialism, Jesus, Martyrdom, Military, Modern, Money, Mother Earth, Nonviolence, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Powers that be, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Radical, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Xenophobia
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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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Toledo LOVE Fest: Anti-Trump Rally
As Donald Trump brought to Toledo his caravan of hate, bigotry and xenophobia, Toledoans met him with a LOVE fest, declaring resoundingly that his fear mongering is not welcome in Toledo. Here is my favorite picture from the rally: Earlier, … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Beautiful, Bigotry, Control, Donald Trump, Experience, facebook, Fear, Free Speech, Hate, Illegal, Karma, Law, Law Enforcement, Love, Media, Military, Muslims, Partisan, Police, Political, Politics, Present, Protesters, Security, Time, Toledo, Women, Xenophobia
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POLITICAL POEM: Elections Bought and Souled
What due You Know choice candidates Fenced by kleptocrats And undebatable Republicrats Their exclusive promise A system fixed Throwing political parties Incorporations wee trust In-firm ideologies The body politic Under the whether Or worse yet Riddled with ballots Everlustingly powered … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Awe, Ballot, Choices, Consumption, Donald Trump, Elections, Funny, Future, Hell, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Puns, Republican, Revolution, Sacred, State, Third Party, Time, Trust, Wisdom
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FREE HILLARY CLINTON POSTER: Because…”Extremely Careless” May Just Be Good Enough
This free Hillary Clinton poster was inspired by her recent vindication by the FBI as only being “extremely careless” with classified information. I sympathize with Hillary Clinton regarding her relentless attacks from right-wingers. Still, the carte blanche impunity afforded people in … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Change, Failure, Family, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, government, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Job, Justice, Law, National, National Security, Political, Power, Secrets, Security, State, Time, Top Pun
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POEM: Technicolored Jesus
Is it time for one of those Come to Jesus moments Wear there is skin in the game Beyond black and white Word And what surrounds Words Becoming flesh Another flood In a see of Red between the lyin’s More … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Blessed, Christianity, Doctrine, Enlightenment, Hell, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Nonviolence, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Racism, Religion, skin in the game, Slavery, Soul, Time, Violence
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PEACE POEM: Tiny Wholes Draining
They all believed In peace Except each peace was small enough Too fit in the war machine Hope draining through their tiny wholes Of a grater good Greasing sow Called enemies As awe weighs sum won ails Pain the accost … Continue reading
EPIC POEM: As Night Watch Man
In the deep Of the knight Watch man Finding one self prone Where singular stars obscure As perpetual high noon Where time stops Straight up Where the sun don’t shine Like a broken time peace With patients in undated Wear … Continue reading
POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: They Knot His and Her — Owed To Gender Fluidity
They cross that strait When they get two it As engender queer In mirrorly two be Or knot too be This poem is an ode to gender fluidity, to anyone who looks in the mirror and sees a different gender … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Diversity, Equality, Female, Future, Gender, History, Identity, Justice, Life, Ode, Poetry, Political, Pride, Queer, Reactionary, Short Poems, Social Justice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Transgender
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POEM: Commander-in-chief
Just Say it Three times fast He/she/it Commander-in-chief Presiding over No unwounded soldiers As sum kind Of used scars salesman Master of what we auto do Protector of awe we car about As if Some amored vehicle Good grief Shock … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Creation, Evil, God, Hell, Image, Life, Military, Nationalism, Nonviolence, Normal, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Power, President, Propaganda, Reality, Sacred, Sacrifice, Slavery, Time, Top Pun, Trust, Violence, War, Worship
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POEM: Plodding Vivacious Nature
While I was busy Doing my busyness Over taking My competition Nature was successively Undertaking my previous busyness done Supplanting my decomposing legacy With crop worth feasting on In treating me As patience heel Going Won better Nature calls Barely … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Competition, Creation, Environmental, Hospitality, Life, Love, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Time
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POEM: The Curator
I am The curator Of your infinite beauty Privy to collections timeless And in real time Streaming glorious tributaries To the art of who you are This is a poem about the glorious privilege in close relationships of having unique … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beauty, Character, Conflict, Creation, Experience, God, Holy, Imagination, Joy, Life, Love, Love Poems, Muse, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Reality, Relationships, Reverence, Short Poems, Stupid, Time, Universe, Work
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POEM: Present Daze
God invented the eight hour day But buy popular demand Parently beyond what could ever be yearned The ardor one tries Only leaves won With more or less Wanting more our In their daze With each re-quest First off with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authorities, Busyness, Children, Creation, Culture, Death, Experience, Freedom, God, government, Harmony, Human Nature, Human Rights, Identity, Inspiration, Labor, Life, Media, Money, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Police, Present, Respect, Sabbath, Sacrifice, Sleep, Time, Transcendent, Work
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POEM: Unbroken
She snapped Too a tension As shot Wrung out And as her life left her Realizing Won does not die By bled alone As neither does One live Buy bred A loan For giving Awe that is Unbroken I have … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Heaven, Hell, Life, Meditation, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Short Poems, Time
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