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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: A Mirror Student
- POEM: Job One
- POEM: Dawning of So-called Civilization
- POEM: The Dance of Life
- POEM: Barren His Soul
- POEM: Hope Ungraduated
- POEM: The Lessen of Mirror Nihilism
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- POEM: What is De-served?
- POEM: Baby-ize
- POEM: A Walker, Please
- POEM: People of Consequence
- POEM: Rat Race Religion
- POEM: It’s Awe Poetry
- POEM: The Hole of Life
- POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”
- POEM: As The Whirled Goes Bye
- POEM: Nobodies
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Tag Archives: Truth
POEM: Gordian Knot — Owed To Mother Hope
Reality can be a mother Halving given Cynicism wide berth Big brother Too hope A mist Crying incessantly And the crapping of won’s pants Entrapped Flanked by sterility and fertility Fenced buy utility and futility Until something Something all inspiring … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Alienation, Argument, Awe, Big Brother, Cynicism, Death, Future, Gordian knot, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Humanity, Life, Meaning, Play, Poet, Present, Reality, Sartre, Solidarity, Truth
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Friendly Rant: Voting FOR Jill Stein NOT Wielding “Privilege”
Oddly, with the presidential candidates from the two dominant and domineering political parties setting new records for low approval, voting for anyone else is met with bafflingly high contempt. My friend, local activist, and Green Party Jill Stein supporter, Shannon Frye, … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Ballot, Children, Classism, Compassion, Crime, Culture, Defense, Democracy, Environmental, Equality, facebook, Family, Fear, Feminism, Feminist, Food, Freedom, Future, Gender, Green Party, Hell, Hillary Clinton, History, Identity, Incarnation, Inequality, Jill Stein, Justice, Labor, Life, Logic, Medicaid, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Neoliberalism, Oppression, Police, Political, Power, President, Prison, Privilege, Queer, Racism, Rage, Religious, Revolution, Security, Sex, Sexism, Sexuality, Silence, Slavery, Social Justice, Social Security, State, Time, Truth, Violence, Voting, War, Women, Work
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Managed Democracy And The Illusion Of Politics
This article pretty much sums it up. Managing the air, apparent electorate, and the “for most” illusion of politics. Great contribution from The African American Intellectual History Society, Managed Democracy And The Illusion Of Politics: Now that another sordid election … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged African American, America, Business, Capitalism, Change, Control, Crises, Democracy, Elite, Facts, Heart, History, Humanity, Inequality, Integrity, Meaning, Media, Mind, Police, Political, Politics, Power, Questions, Reconciliation, Republican, Revolution, Society, State, Terrorism, Truth, Virtue, War
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER – SUPPORT THE ARTS – Artists Make Lousy Slaves
This free poster takes a relatively apolitical statement, “Support The Arts,” and combines it with a socially and politically provocative assertion that artists make lousy slaves. Slavery is perhaps the penultimate expression of dehumanization, literally selling humanity for simple utility … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Children, Commercial, Control, Crude, Culture, Economy, Experience, free poster, Free Posters, Humanity, Inspiration, Justice, Monetize, Political, Slavery, Social Justice, Truth, Women
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Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
If you want to make sense of the failure of neoliberalism, as typified by Hillary Clinton, and its vomiting up of proto-fascist leaders like Donald Trump, then author and journalist Chris Hedges nails it again, in this piece, Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Authoritarian, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Children, Christian, Citizens, Commercial, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Conundrum, Cruelty, Culture, Cynical, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Economic, Elite, Enemies, Failure, Fascism, Heaven, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Hypermasculinity, Hypocritical, Identity, Ideology, Integrity, Justice, Liberal, Misogyny, Mitt Romney, Moral, Narcissism, National, Nazi, Neoliberalism, Police, Political, Politics, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Rage, Reality, Religious, Republican, Rhetoric, Security, State, Superficial, Trust, Truth, Violence, War, Women
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POEM: Anew Page Delivering
I am Subject too The very inquisition Wanting too a void Axing the quest in Who would halve me Believe Know One Wrote The book In my heart Anything but stone Nothing accept Throwing multifarious dirt At clay feat As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Attitude, Awe, Dreams, Epistemology, Experience, God, Heart, Hell, Holy, Humor, Life, Nature, Optimism, Philosophical, Philosophy, Playfulness, Poetry, Skepticism, Soul, Truth, Wisdom
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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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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: Awe Due Consideration
What is good A bout religion At best There is little to say Giving a fare hearing More about listening Too small Still voices Respecting only what due Saving A few choice words For those empower Occupying humanity Only in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Chaos, Consciousness, Economy, Experience, Gandhi, Gift, God, Hell, Humanity, Irreverence, Life, Moral, Muse, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Scarcity, Science, Silence, Truth, Universe
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POEM: A Bout As Helpful
He axed Are you a Christian? Sow bound to answer I am Though that is a bout As helpful As siding the fact That I am American When in truth Such a confining chide Might only be a parent As … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Creation, Death, Evolution, Experience, Gandhi, Gender, Hindu, Life, Muslim, Nationalism, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Religious, Short Poems, Transcendent, Truth, Universe
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POEM: Divine Picking A Friend’s Knows
Buy God They had Catalogued Immeasurable weighs Too knot believe Wholly haunted Bye sum divine coupling Or just won more Each picking Their favorite knows Inexplicably Their own If only They had A greed Too sell nothing This poem is … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, God, Grace, Greed, Holy, Incarnation, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Short Poems, Truth
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POEM: Mirror Winning In a Close Shave
That mine-blowing moment finally came Where he saw his enemy Face to efface That fateful mourning Infinitely more dangerous And dreadfully more thorny Than blood drawn in a close shave Like a glance to the heart None other Then his … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Awe, Creation, Experience, Heart, Humanity, Mourning, Philosophical, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Projection, Psychology, Self-Discovery, Short Poems, Truth
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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: 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: Trump U
What are you Fraud of That witch trumps university Coaching that imperceptible deference Between ignorance and apathy Knot knowing or caring Students funked Never to be Defunct Taken by the Don Bankrupt in every way Never graduating pompous circumstances And … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Apathy, Awe, Donald Trump, Evolution, God, Humanity, Poems, Poetry, Third Party, Truth
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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: Re-lying on Day-old Knews
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah The news drones on Massaging and spinning Disembodied heads a top Heartless ‘n titties in dis cursive and desultry means Temperately flailing to wake us From our terrorific slumber Our tired and true rejoinder Hit … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Democracy, Drones, Evil, Farce, Fox News, Humanity, Just for the Health of It, Media, Objectivity, Parodies, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Public Health, Responsibility, Superficial, Toledo, Truth, Vanity, Violence, WAKT
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