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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: Arose
- POEM: Fallen Reign
- POEM: The Future, The Passed
- POEM: Your Fired
- POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
- POEM: Bred of Life
- POEM: Scorpions in a Bottle
- POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
- POEM: Healing Fire
- POEM: Net Zeroed
- POEM: Showing Up
- POEM: Taking, Their Q
- POEM: King of the Hill
- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
- POEM: Wiled Fires
- POEM: Progress
- POEM: Fratricide
- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
- POEM: A Poet’s Currency
- POEM: Love Birds
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Tag Archives: Truth
POEM: More of the Sane
Going through life Various docks said You are just Going through a phrase And heeling Wood be Yores soon Enough Finally cured Of awe That is Green With envy Of what might Passably be More of the sane This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Creation, Envy, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Gift, God, Image, Insanity, Life, Love, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Rage, Recycling, Respect, Risk, Science, Security, Status, Status Quo, Truth, Willingness, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: God’s Perish
I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: A Thoreau Reading — Owed To Awe That Sucks
Some say That he sucked The marrow from life And resin ate Down to my bones Blood brothers In what is Not a race To judge knot In won slice of life Or as-certain fine truth From lowly metaphor And … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Experience, Facts, Life, Meaning, Moral, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Radical, Thoreau, Truth
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POEM: Liberal Mined Violent
Some liberal mined violent Call up on pacifists To condemn a brand of violence To wit They object Ultimately subjected To accost Without benefit analysis Coming efface to efface With realty And a sorted loved wons Unwilling to accede where … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Conservative, Courage, Cowardice, Creativity, Cynical, Death, Disenfranchised, Evil, Fear, Free Will, Gandhi, God, Greed, Heart, Hope, Idealism, Imagination, Injustice, Israel, Justice, Liberal, Love, Military, Mind, Mock, Modern, Moral, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Palestine, Political, Present, Privilege, Quotes, Respect, Responsibility, Science, skin in the game, Spiritual, State, Truth, Veterans, Violence, War, Willingness, Work, Worship
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POEM: A Re-View of a Plunk Rock Band, Tossing Watery Graves
I want it awe Yet what do you no What measures Must we take From emanate ripples He helled the earth in his hand Of what intimated Of know consequence A dinky mount To sky ward heavin’ Hoping only to … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Abyss, Attitude, Awe, Blessed, Change, Cognitive Dissonance, Courage, Disenfranchised, Dogma, Empathy, Environmental, Experience, Freedom, Grace, Heart, Hell, Hope, Idealism, Intellect, Justice, Learning, Liberal, Life, Meaning, Nature, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Present, Privilege, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Rules, Scientific Reductionism, Social Justice, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Paying In Attention – Owed To Mind Fullness
I under stand You are on Some kind of in Stall meant plan As long As you still Pay attention In do time I’ll pay for such in deference Hopefully not the final time Having been Pre-disposed In the passed … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awareness, Awe, Choices, Consciousness, Disease, Empathy, Evil, Evolution, Experience, History, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Intimacy, Kindness, Life, Love, Luck, Mind, Mindfulness, Poems, Political, Power, Present, Pride, Privilege, Projection, Proverb, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Sacred, Science, Self-Awareness, Success, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, Worldview
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POEM: Flagging Defeat
He had enough Privilege To ignore The increasingly grave mound Of white lies Worshiping some cruel over lode Surveying all that was once Theirs A teetering tower of babble Atop spinning Helled up only buy its careening whirled Mything the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Constitutional Rights, Corporate Personhood, Creativity, Culture, Democracy, Denial, Direct Democracy, Economic, Elite, Events, Future, Heart, Humanity, Imperialism, Mind, Money, National, Nationalism, Ode, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Prophet, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Rich, Slavery, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, War, Worship
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POEM: A We Occupation
I get deeply cared away Buy you being On the same side as me Conveniently not paying A tension To the under Lying fact That there is but Won side Which wee occupy This short poem addresses a theme that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Consciousness, Control, Courage, Creation, Culture, Curiosity, Death, Enemies, Enlightenment, Ethical, Events, Evil, Existential, Experience, Family, Food, Free Will, Freedom, Funny, God, Heart, Humility, Ideology, Image, Interdependence, Life, Love, Meaning, Mind, Murder, Mystery, Mystic, Mysticism, Nature, Normal, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Power, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Short Poems, Soul, Suicide, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Zen
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PUCO Testimony – FirstEnergy Robbery of Ratepayers
Below is my testimony at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) hearing regarding the proposed corporate welfare for FirstEnergy. There was an impressive show of force by the anti-nuclear and pro-environmental folks from the region. There was a show … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Authority, Change, Congress, Control, Death, Economic, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Events, Faith, Farce, Future, government, Ironic, Job, Life, Market, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Pollution, Poor, Power, Public Health, Rich, Risk, Sustainable, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Truth, Welfare, Work
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POEM: Metings, I’d Rather Do Without
I listen To that which speaks A bigger In feeleds of dreams Wanting more Then words Aloft from fences Of unsatisfying breadth And stealy calculation Dis passionate mines As inevitable ballbusters Descending from bona fide guise Even handed lines Powerless … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Bullshit, Change, Control, Dreams, Experience, Future, Healing, Heart, Ideology, Intellect, Justice, Life, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Time, Truth
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POEM: Nevermore Contrived
In the distant future But not too distant Man fashions A machine That does every thing For us For the trees Imperceptible To awe but sum Living in passed tense Eternal re-pose Holding sway In make believe lives And unexamined … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Busyness, Celebrity, Coercion, Courage, Dream, Dreams, Future, Heart, Hope, Identity, Intimacy, Life, Market, Play, Power, Reality, Religion, Sacrifice, Security, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Technology, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: In What Seams Faultless
At certain moments I am left In a world Beyond That which is My own Speechless In what seams faultless Only to be Hereafter Unleashed After awe Unforked tongue Speaking freely To anyone who can Here Experiencing such presence Unfrayed … Continue reading
POEM: Democracy – as seen on TV
Wherever I land In the electoral whirled Politicians ceremoniously execute The will of the people In doctored fashion Yet an other sort of capitol punishment Delegated to the coroner Turning voting off In a Pyrrhic victory So hollowed by those … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Community, Cynical, Democracy, Elections, Enemies, Humanity, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Punishment, Reactionary, Reality, Time, Truth, Voting
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POEM: Rare Prayer
I found myself In rare prayer A genus reserved for Mother’s ilk Only doing what Kin be done In udder neglect Of that long a go Cached in Fore more sensible weighs Now wholly saved For foxholes The mass Of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apathy, Awe, Compromise, Creation, Dream, Dreams, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Future, God, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Heart, Hope, Hubris, Insecurities, Journey, Lazy, Life, Loss, Meaning, Mind, Mourning, Mystic, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Reality, Religion, Soul, Spiritual, Tar Sands, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: Sew Your Frayed
Fear takes you Too the toil it For those privy to life If you have years, listen Courage makes you What sow ever the seasoning Spring dew Or winter flakes You knead not be Scared for life Weather an incite … Continue reading