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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: On Fire and Ice — Owed to Aaron Bushnell
- POEM: Dis Quieting Genocide
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Tag Archives: Power
POEM: An Eve with Netanyahu
As President Biden campaigns on a pro-democracy platform against the corrupt Donald Trump, he is tag teaming genocide in Gaza with his long-time friend, the corrupt Israeli PM Netanyahu, the “Bibi” brain and heart of the military onslaught and deadly … Continue reading
POEM: Let Them Eat Bullets
Flour power, not bombs. Are we fed-up with forced mass starvation yet? Let Them Eat Bullets From ashes to ashes And dust to dust Famine sweeps Gaza And the prison guards feel threatened By the unherd Starving fore a tension … Continue reading
POEM: Genocide Joe
Monday mourning. Last week President Joe Biden spoke of being hopeful about a ceasefire deal in Gaza. I must confess, I scheduled posting this last week, expecting the likely outcome of genocide unabated and genocide Joe abidin’ his time. I … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, Health Care, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Israel, Journalists, Mourning, Political, Power, President, Skepticism, Soul, Time
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POEM: Get Over It
We are a far cry from Patrick Henry’s infamous cry, “Give me liberty or give me death,” which highlights one’s ultimate willingness to put all of your skin in the game. Today’s cry is more of a whine, “Give me … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Courage, Cowardice, Death, Democracy, Evil, Guns, Israel, Life, Moral, Necessary Evil, Politics, Power, Risk, skin in the game, Soul, Violence, War, Willingness
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POEM: God’s Preferential Option
I have learned that an open heart is a broken heart. A common reaction to pain, stress, or trauma is to close down as a defense mechanism. While the world has plenty of pain, stress, and trauma, a healthy response … Continue reading
POEM: Re-Nouned
I am not one for titles and hierarchical living. Of coarse, labels serve some function in relating to one another. Still, I yearn for human relations where titles of status and power do not confound our basic humanity. Thus, this … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Humanity, Power, President, Quakers, Respect, Society, Spirituality, Status
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POEM: Catchy Zzzz’s
I see much of life as a struggle to maintain a vigorous consciousness and cultivate a vital, life-affirming conscience. I see the powers that be as offering a vain, numbing “contentment,” free of inconvenient or uncomfortable realities. Security becomes distancing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Conscience, Consciousness, Death, Life, Power, Powers that be, Security, Temptation, Time
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Starving Palestinians — How Compassion Ate Gazans
President Biden’s posed compassion and the U.S.-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is starving the civilian population. The generations-long military occupation, the 16-year blockade on Gaza, and the current months-long bombing campaign has created a crucible of death in Gaza. … Continue reading
POEM: Take a Collective Breath
This poem is a rare combination of my life as a poet and a public health worker. This poem juxtaposes the personal option of some to choose organic food but the collective difficulty of choosing clean air. Some times we … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Common Good, Economic, Food, Life, Poet, Power, Public Health, Work
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POEM: Rube Goldberg Rubes
This poem is a commentary on ingenuously using overly complicated machinations and demagoguery to achieve simple and base desires of greed and power. This sad state of affairs is empowered by a sufficient pool of fools, or rubes. The poem’s … Continue reading
POEM: That Hire Power
Sometimes when I due things my weigh, it just leads me back to the eternal truth that things work out better when I employ awe. That Hire Power That hire power Put me on Notice Halve it my weigh A … Continue reading
POEM: End the Israeli Occupation — Owed to the Palestinian People
The Israeli occupation must end. The latest in generations-long human rights violations and obstinate abrogation of international law must end. Cutting of water, food, electricity and fuel to an entire population, mostly civilians, of course, is a moral horror. No … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Food, Human Rights, Israel, Law, Military, Moral, Palestinian, Power, President, Prison, Questions, Security, State
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POEM: Sisyphus Shrugged
This poem is a parody of the libertarian bible, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, where rugged (read “ruthless”) individualism in service of economic wealth and power is lauded above all else. Sisyphus Shrugged Ann ran In the company of train wrecks … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Bible, Economic, Hubris, Individualism, libertarian, Love, Money, Power, Status, Wealth
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POEM: Making Know Deference
This poem is about what may be the biggest con to which we are subject: that what you do doesn’t make any difference. I see this as a cynical project by those in power to entrench and secure a status … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Children, Cynical, God, Hope, Power, Status, Status Quo, Truth
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POEM: Genuflecting On – Power
Have you ever wandered a bout a whirled where brutishness is rewarded and kindness forsaken? Genuflecting On: Power Demagogues and brutes Are marred to espouse Moral gravity A moral farce A raze to the bottom The principle of simpletons That … Continue reading
POEM: Song of The Octopus
This poem is about having creative energies that are not honored and rewarded in our culture. Such creative energies may have difficulty finding channels to flow freely. This poem employs a magnificently mixed metaphor of an imagined Octopus’ Garden (Thank … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Awe, Creativity, Culture, Modern, Money, Power, Status, Status Quo
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POEM: Dyslexic Write Wringer
Dyslexic Write Wringer In a whack and blight world Any dyslexic can tell you A right winger Is a white ringer Only as an adult did I realize that I am mildly dyslexic. I have to intentionally work every time … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Dyslexia, Equality, Experience, Funny, Gift, Hate, Humor, Learning, Love, Meaning, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Racism, Relationships, Responsibility, Time, White Supremacy, Work
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