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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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Category Archives: Poems
POEM: A World Worth Fighting For
Once agin His eyes went Threw me Populating lonely A whirled Of perpetrators and victims Bad asses and good ass Of which I was won Haunted by wonder In what kind Of world Would we halve Been friends Now that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Courage, Humanity, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Questions, Risk, Solidarity
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Summer Solstice Poem: A Day of Longing No More
The longest day of the year And nothing too due He was well Grounded Sent to his roam Bye know won On the level Of ants Who never say “uncle” With blades broken Beaten by the sun Sow green With … Continue reading
POEM: That Cursory Savor
Life As present Did not add up As if A zero Sum game The passed getting bigger The future getting smaller That good buy That eminent lessen As holy for gone As refuse As waive that fortune Having only Too … Continue reading
POEM: Wrenching Machine
He threw himself into his work Like a wrench More than just A gag In a wrenching machine Here is a Monday poem dedicated to all anti-work workers, those less-than-willing cogs in dehumanizing machines. I am so grateful for being … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Consumption, Dehumanizing, Heart, Lifestyle, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Work
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POEM: Nonpartisan Shootings
Weather running the country In too the ground Or playing hardball So well practiced America pines For that national past time And return to nonpartisan shootings The shooting on a baseball field full of Republican congressmen and staffers has jacked … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anti-Gun, Celebrity, Congress, Death, Life, National, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Republican, Short Poems, Time, Violence, Worship
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POEM: Devil’s Advocate
He was invited too serve As devil’s advocate But he prudently recognized That the job was utterly filled Declining the precipitous prize And elevated gratuitousness At one point or another, we are each tempted to take up, the downside of an … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Awe, Change, Evil, Genius, Job, Play, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Skepticism, Status, Status Quo, Temptation
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CLIMATE CHANGE POEM: Donald Trump Has Gone Buggy
Donald Trump has gone buggy As in big ass hoarse drawn carriage Making hay and whips With great industry As unbelievable As nuclear-powered Amish A trial balloon Only to be led By nothing butt A horse’s ass Here is another … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Environment, Environmental, Poems, Poetry, Politics, President, Short Poems
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found
Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found Sow culpable Too due nothing President Trump pulls out What little hand He had in Mother Earth’s Safe guarding His oily and gassy mates Coal for everyone! It’s like Christmas!! And stocks sore … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Business, Change, Children, Christmas, Climate Change, Community, Defense, Denial, Donald Trump, Environmental, Free market, government, Hope, Humanity, Insanity, Kindness, Law, leadership, Love, Market, Meditation, Mother Earth, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propriety, Resistance, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Russia, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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Sen. Robert WALDO Portman, Where Are You?!
Sen. Robert WALDO Portman, where are you?! All about Red and white stripes And no blue to be seen In what Might better Be a black and white world Yet no wear To be found In this tattered democracy And … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action
Tagged America, Democracy, Poems, Poetry, Protest Poetry, Protests, Sen. Rob Portman, Toledo
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HOPE POEM: Hope Can Be
Hope can be Like an animal cornered by a predator Fighting for life Hope can be Like a wisp of smoke Wafting through the claws of enemies Hope can be Like adore number three A seeding that grand prize of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Courage, Death, Enemies, Experience, Hope, Life, Patience, Poems, Rules, Violence
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POLITICAL POEM: Fighting Exclusively
It was his thing Fighting exclusively Battles he could win His crowning I deal Never finding himself On-the-cide of losers Whirled why’d Naught ails But win Filling his sales Whatever He could bye A captain of destiny In habiting the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Absolute Security, Amorality, Awe, Business, Capitalism, Change, Character, Culture, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dreams, Equality, Ethical, Ethics, Greed, Heart, Helplessness, Hope, Human Rights, Ideals, Justice, Loss, Megalomania, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, President, Privilege, Sacred, Security, skin in the game, Sociopathy, Solidarity, Status, Success, Suffering, Truth, Values
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump U Verses Screw U
O pose The establishment Of his style Outside is in Down with up As drive in reveres “I love sow and sow more than anyone” And awe That is Con men Selling Brooklyn bridges To no where That is good … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Chaos, Creativity, Democracy, Donald Trump, government, Hope, Humanity, Labor, Love, Moral, Nationalism, Oligarchy, Partisan, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, Resistance, Rich, Security, Society, Solidarity, Unity, Women, Xenophobia
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POEM: Know Deal
He offered Me All the secrets of the world And being more Or less ambitious I went for a few secrets Not of this world This poem is a tip of the hat to a famous Thomas Aquinas quote: “The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Freedom, Humanity, Life, Mind, Pi, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Probability, Secrets, Short Poems, Soul, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Unite In The Write
Poets of the world unite Delivering a bill of writes To the regressive elite And overcompensating narcissists May the love of word in deed Translate into a raging river of love Pounding against that professed shore thing Strait from the … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, Short Poems, Solidarity, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Heir Conditioning
As things went south South goes north Truly Global warning is real There is an arising From the fires in bellies And home fires burning In efface of doors closed Windows open Those crazy few Committed Those sober many Just … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Climate Change, Crazy, Donald Trump, Farce, Injustice, Justice, Mother Earth, Mourning, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Right-Wing, Solidarity, Wisdom
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POEM: Tickling God’s Whiskers
He thought Too himself More or less THAT would tickle God’s whiskers Which was particularly funny Since God has no whiskers Un-less That is God is right Under your knows This short poem plays with the notion that God is … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Funny, God, Humor, Joke, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POLITICAL POEM: In Daze Not To Follow
The plantation had fallen Into this repair As fore many Present Work Over and above The well, known Used Too deep scars And familiar ditches dug Subject to an other privilege However bound Too knew found freedom And worldwide travails … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Courage, Cynicism, Donald Trump, Experience, Freedom, Future, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Present, Privilege, Questions, Racism, Reality, Solidarity, Stupid, Work
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POEM: A Star To Be Borne — People Knot Looking Up
In dozin’s of dozin’s They were engrossed Fueled time and time agin In con founding sow a ware Their tension helled by their idol busyness In pitches black to looming executors As orderly As dark Knot knowing her Under stand … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Busyness, History, Holy, Humanity, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Soul, Time, Virtual Reality, Worship
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POEM: Answering The Call
He was called Into the warden’s office The best cell In the big house Next to the judges chamber Of commerce Inhumanity Chain standing in A stile Rhyming with orange The nature of bars and steal Overtly concrete Knot no’ing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Civil Disobedience, Conundrum, Freedom, Humanity, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Reality, Society, Soul, Work
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