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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 Hole-y Body Politic
- POEM: Smoking Our Enemies
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- POEM: Multitudes of Choice
- POEM: Infrastructure Weak
- POEM: Certifiable Sabbath
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- POEM: Owed to Uncivil Service
- POEM: Burning Peacemakers Unflaggingly a Cross America
- POEM: Leaves Waving
- POEM: Taken Literally
- POEM: The Drop on Me
- POEM: The Gravity of Centeredness
- POEM: Wading to Ex-hell
- POEM: Sow Lame He Cant Get an Election – Owed to Straight Up Lies
- POEM: Bard from Speaking — Owed to a Passing Grade (If Sow Inclined)
- POEM: Blanche Effacing – Owed to De-nomination of Todd Blanche
- POEM: De-nuding Shame
- POEM: Knot Computing
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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: Genocide Heirs
I can see how people find opposing all wars as problematic, and see situations where they would organize mass killings of their enemies. Frankly, from an international law and human rights perspective, I think that it is impossible in practice … Continue reading
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POEM: Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode
Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode It was plane to sea That he wanted too be Immortal eyes A high And might he quest In Flying hi And lo That mystical soup And what can return Ashore thing … Continue reading
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POEM: Ever Lusting Foolishness
Consumption kills. Ever Lusting Foolishness I am acutely a ware Of that chronic foolishness That swarming our planet A product of consumption And awe that passes As wise guise
POEM: What Kind?
We reap what we sow. What Kind? My neighbor planted a seed I asked him what kind it was He simply said “Look for its fruit” Each year I posed The same question His answer was always The same After … Continue reading
POEM: Sow Backwards, NOW WON
This poem is an ode to my dyslexia and mysticism. I, a scribe, my neurodivergent perspective, naturally playing with dancing words and ideas juxtaposed, as an apt channel for mysticism, a love of mystery and cryptically unfolding life. Sow Backwards, … Continue reading
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POEM: Dam Water
Life is a mysterious dance. Dam Water He lived As dam water Over the top Knows diving In the gravity of life Catching the sun in a thousand ways Soully to dance with bedrock And the open see Haunted bye … Continue reading
POEM: Aye, Will Rise in Three Days, Yada Yada Yada
The resistance will persist until further notice. And upon notice wee will grow even more. Aye, Will Rise in Three Days, Yada Yada Yada We will resist austerity As we root in abundance We will resist authoritarianism As we vote … Continue reading
POEM — What Comes: Of Police Helicopters
I wrote this poem on May Day, 2023, and didn’t publish it online till now. On occasion, I walk or bike across my neighborhood, the Old West End, to sit outside the Toledo Museum of Art, to write a poem … Continue reading
POEM: Sow It Goes
Life can be tops. Sow It Goes Life gives Sow much more Then it takes Back And fourth That first for life Round and round It goes Where it’s tops Nobody no’s
POEM: Other Wise
Solidarity, cooperation, and trust create a future worth living, and a present worth fighting for. Other Wise They tolled US Of gaining And regaining Competitiveness And awe the wile Wee look to each other Solidarity The foundation of civilization Cooperation … Continue reading
POEM: The Roll of Government
The psychotic notion that greed should be the engine for good has long been capitalism’s premise and wretched selling point. The grifter-in chief has “successfully” weaponized this to turn all of US into rubes. This poem elucidates the roll of … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-Trump, Donald Trump, government
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POEM: Dihydrogen Monoxide Conspiracy
Some conspiracy theories are beautiful. Dihydrogen Monoxide Conspiracy Water is life And awe is well
POEM: Awe, Led, Goaled
Writing poetry can be surprising. Awe, Led, Goaled Awe I know is Words are alchemy Turning led to goaled Before I may even no What that is
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POEM: Fly By Night Day Traitors
Fly By Night Day Traitors He con me Threw me a curve And I banked on it The fool faith And unmoored credit Of US Re-lying on treasury bonds Presidential Sharpies™ And that stock mark it In dig nation of … Continue reading
POEM: Calling Inaudible
Here is a playful poem about the silence essential for me being an outspoken, unspoken word artist. Also, this poem teases one of my rare envies, that of having musical talent — which I do not have. Calling Inaudible If … Continue reading
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POEM: Meaner and Leaner, Have Way There
Inspired by the mean and chaotic slash and burn of our federal government. Wons agin, welcome to new mismanagement. Meaner and Leaner, Have Way There The fat cats Broad caste The D.C. shuffle Their latest arrival A Department of Departments … Continue reading
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POEM: That’s Wearing on a Poet’s Life
Poets are famously unread. Me even more sow. That’s Wearing on a Poet’s Life How trying Too due the impossible Mirrorly transcribing Words of God In some unspeakable language As indecipherable a diction Cloak a verse Abetting my hide On … Continue reading
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POEM: That Shrouded Berth
It’s hard to know what is borne from incomprehensible places. That Shrouded Berth It was one Of those moments Wear my life seemed incomprehensible A fit That others did knot Care to see Yet I was made To wonder If … Continue reading
POEM: Frankly, More Than Speaking – Owed to Pope Francis
Frankly, More Than Speaking – Owed to Pope Francis “Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary use words.” – Ironically, words misattributed to St. Francis of Assisi There are many weighs to live And Pope Francis chose Servant … Continue reading
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POEM: The Wrest of the Story
Trump is a meanie. The Wrest of the Story “Don’t worry. He doesn’t mean what he says.” –Trump apologists He may mean what he says He may not mean what he says But you can wrest assured That what he … Continue reading