About Top Pun’s Blog
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!
Search Top Pun Blog
My Public Health Radio Show
-
Recent Posts
- POEM: Wait for It
- POEM: Post, Post, Post Modern
- POEM: Overdid
- POEM: Making Note
- POEM: May Fly
- POEM: Roll…er…Coast…er – Owed to Trump Tariff Wore
- POEM: Acquit My Jōb
- POEM: Missing an I
- POEM: F-16
- POEM: Ambitions Sunk
- POEM: The Fewed
- POEM: No How
- MEMORIAL POEMS for my mom, Lois Rutt
- Expectant Parents, New Baby POEM: Due, The Math
- POEM: Weather Sadness or Joy
- POEM: Life Shows Up
- POEM: Genocide Heirs
- POEM: Bard From The Sky — Owed to Ode
- POEM: Ever Lusting Foolishness
- POEM: What Kind?
- POEM: Sow Backwards, NOW WON
- POEM: Dam Water
- POEM: Aye, Will Rise in Three Days, Yada Yada Yada
- POEM — What Comes: Of Police Helicopters
- POEM: Sow It Goes
- THANKS for perusing Top Pun's word artistry!
-
Tags
- America
- Awe
- Change
- Control
- Culture
- Death
- Democracy
- Donald Trump
- Experience
- Fear
- Freedom
- Funny
- God
- Heart
- Hope
- Humanity
- Job
- Justice
- Law
- Life
- Love
- Meaning
- Mind
- Modern
- Money
- Moral
- Nature
- Poems
- Poetry
- Political
- Politics
- Poor
- Power
- Present
- Reality
- Religion
- Short Poems
- Soul
- State
- Time
- Truth
- Violence
- War
- Wisdom
- Work
Tag Archives: Heaven
POEM: Love Birds
Back to nature. Forward to nature. Love Birds His life peered As an empty field Soully a tree Stray flowers A pair of birds Blades of grasses Up on closer inspection Colonies of bugs A myriad of life On the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Heaven, Holy, Life, Love, Nature
Leave a comment
POEM: Heir Droppings
This poem goes out to the five Palestinian kids killed when an American airdrop of food crushed them after the parachute failed. This over the top “Operation Breadcrumb” does nothing to stop Israel’s illegal blocking of humanitarian aid by ground … Continue reading
POEM: Doxxed
My religion is unorthodox, and those orthodox varieties of all sorts find me heretical. Doxxed He was doxxed From the right From the left Catching hell And heaven From both sides Paradoxxed Inscrutably sow In a dyslexic manor E pluribus … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Heaven, Hell, Religion
Leave a comment
POEM: Box Set
This poem ponders the boxes that we put one another in, weather conservative or liberal, and how money and our own interests get in the weigh of our shared humanity. May we think outside our boxes and always put humanity … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Conservative, Heaven, Humanity, Liberal, Money, Politics, Risk, Welfare
Leave a comment
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: Attrition Verses
Much of the brutality in our world takes the form of a war of attrition, where “the more titanic of the two” calculates that they can outlast the damage to won an other. This raze to the bottom abodes well … Continue reading
POEM: A Cain Due Attitude
This poem is a metaphor for the natural consequences of bulling through natural limits on planet earth, our one home. This poem is yet another existential plea for ledged humanity to step away from the cliff. This poem poses the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Existential, Greed, Heaven, Humanity, Love, Money, Titanic
Leave a comment
POEM: Fallen, For It
This poem is an ode to hubris, perhaps the greatest enemy to our collective lives. The largest hubris of all is leaning into hubris as a character asset. The Tower of Babel will fall, as well as every version of … Continue reading
POEM: Not Enough Knew Words
This poem is yet another tribute to the unfathomable, infinitely ineffable muse calling up new words and word plays to manifest her unending nature. Not Enough Knew Words Sew What’s up I can’t seam Too get my fill In this … Continue reading
POEM: Ghost Writer in the Sky
This poem, weather a dream or a nightmare, plays with that often thin line in life between terror and hope. Ghost Writer in the Sky What was this? An exhilarating dream Or night mare Taking my breath away Life suspended … Continue reading
POEM: Grizzled Prospector
This poem is about the difficult prospecting in life for goaled. There are many treasures to be discovered and re-discovered, even as life occasionally collapses upon us. Of course, each time we get through to the other side, however grizzled, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Heaven, Journey, Life, Soul, Time
Leave a comment
POEM: Loyalty Oafs
Loyalty Oafs Loyalty oafs Would halve you Believe In idol vanity Sowing their wiled oaths AWOL keeping us a part With litmus tests In a whirled of acid And base Brands that burn And scar us In too submission Not … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Bible, Christian, Compromise, Evil, God, Heart, Heaven, Impeachment, Jerusalem, Jesus, Law, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Republican, Simplicity, Values, Vanity, Virtue
Leave a comment
FREE POSTER: God is Love (with asterisk)
God is love. Period. In case you were wondering what the fine print says: it’s the Sermon on the Mount (below). I wanted the primary meaning of this poster to address and challenge the notion that God’s love has a … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authority, Blessed, Children, Enemies, Evil, Faith, Food, Foolish, free poster, Gift, God, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Immorality, Jerusalem, Jesus, Labor, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Mercy, Money, Moral, Morality, Murder, Peacemakers, Poor, Prison, Prophet, Sacred, Temptation, Time
Leave a comment
FREE POLITICAL POSTER: The Abominable Snowjob – DONALD TRUMP My Tax Plan Was Pulled From Heaven. I Have Star Power – TAX CUTS FOR RICH in yellow snow.
Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans announced that they have agreed upon a tax scam that will come up for a vote next week. This tax legislation has not had a single public hearing! This tax scam has a worse … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Donald Trump, Dream, Enemies, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Heaven, Love, Political, Power, Republican, Rich
Leave a comment
POEM: Hell In A Handbasket
I would rather live… In a trailer That proverbial mobile homme Seeing stars when roofs are razed And nothing but realty at my back As awe of creation is present As I am Looked down upon Wading patiently fore that … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Bible, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Culture, Evil, Existential, Faith, Fear, Foolish, God, Happiness, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Job, Life, Mock, Poems, Poetry, Present, Prison, Rules, Secrets, Silence, Soul, Status, Success, Time, Willingness, Wisdom
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
POEM: Creator of Heaven Unearth
Oh God Awe might he Creator of heaven unearth Your sun trying to peer through What is mirrorly mist Between every human face Won and the same Unending cycles Set up for yielding What is seeing bye many As a … Continue reading
ACTIVIST POEM: Our Ayes Will Have It
She had Enough Of half-baked politicians She kneaded democracy Here and now As the yeast she could do Sounding off To those who might Listen Wee choir not A grand stand To lift every voice and sing Wringing well The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Change, Death, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Faith, Fear, God, Greed, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Minorities, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Present, Privilege, Reactionary, Work
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
POEM: Naught For Prophet Fun Razing
In the crucible Of the well-heeled And the, well, heeled He surrounded himself With corporate persons Naught for prophet organizations Possessed buy a cutting edge currency paper thin The filing and folding kind Their foundational hope Nay only hope To … Continue reading