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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: As Airs to the Thrown
- POEM: Nobodies, Boy
- POEM: Awe is Won
- POEM: Living in My Mined
- POEM: Showing Up
- POEM: Not My Own
- POEM: Mortality Creeps
- POEM: Hollowed Be His Name
- POEM: A Door, Me
- Trump Jesus “Doctored”
- POEM: Yore Superpower
- POEM: Little Donnie Going, Home
- POEM: The Best I Metaphor
- POEM: The Man™ – Owed to The Man Squared
- POEM: Well, Well, Well
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Tag Archives: Power
POEM: Yore Superpower
A poem about Disruptor-in-chief Trump’s super power of not caring hastening the accostly rot of American power and empire… Yore Superpower Hour dear leader In his wish caste Did reckon His super power Knot caring That Trump it Of his … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Donald Trump, empire, Power, War
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POEM: Might Verses, Mite
The poor and disenfranchised will gather together and defeat the rich and mighty… Might Verses, Mite The widow showed up the rich with her two very small copper coins – term mites to what the rich wood know. –from Mark … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Power, Powers that be, Rich
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POEM: Acquire Boy
As America falls apart, America comes together, it’s a greed, the bully-in-chief is the most self-dealing president president ever… Acquire Boy He took What He wanted He means Know harm Power is as power does Run Forced Run That game … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Donald Trump, Power
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POEM: Monkey Business
Letting go and getting on with the good life, that bye the weigh which is not hanging on to wealth, power, and status. Monkey Business “To trap a monkey relies on its clenched fist, unwilling to let go.” It was … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Dreams, Evolution, Life, Power, Status, Wealth
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POEM: A Salt & Battery
This poem is a meditation on that sense of being positively negative. There is something electric between positivity and negativity. I am a salt of the earth kind of guy, a dude abiding, and yet some people don’t take kindly … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Meditation, Power, Truth
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POEM: America and Its Britches
Here is a somewhat poetic view of the body politic. America and Its Britches The whirled is full of hubris America is too Big for its britches Its Lilliputian slacks As tolled buy Asocial media blitz More like The lowest … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Hubris, Media, Power
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POEM: Breaking Up is Hard Too Due
The U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza continues. Mean wile, the Democrats are far more concerned about Biden’s debatable performance on stage. This is perhaps everything we need to know about their so-called defense of democracy, international law, and the purportedly sacrosanct … Continue reading
POEM: Woo Who
This poem reflects a bit on my skepticism of skepticism and my deep yearning to witness and participate in the long arc of love. Woo Who Their is Know subject Greater than You who Suspect Life as a Job Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Job, Law, Life, Love, Power, Skepticism
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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