Telly trouble and dangers
( I have posted this poem of mine on several different international poetry sites everytime there is a school shooting in the U.S as I care about all children deeply and feel for innocent lives lost.
This time in Uvalde, Texas, USA)
What kids are watching on telly
are crimes and crimes in all variety!
Crimes of hate
crimes of passion
acting it out at shocking rate
thinking in some wild fashion
then ending up cell mates
TV can kill their compassion
Their coffins enter cemetery gates
When kids watch their movie heroes
shoot down people with the gun
they are incited to do the same
to achieve some thrill and fun.
When they see their very film star
slash someone's throat in a fit of anger
they think well of crimes of rage
and plunge everybody else into danger.
The tendency to portray the violent scene
luridly and shockingly on the Big Screen
Ah, even for the small screen, tis the gory
that makes for the dark and thrilling story.
Now that technology's long opened
this wily pandora's box,
the dispersal of amplified social ills
just ain't no hoax
The rowdy hoodlums and reckless gangsters
are simply by-products of Tv influences
The world watches the thriving of the bully-boy pranksters
passively in helpless terror of their offences.
It's all portrayal of the vulgar, the obscene
by that devious Silver Screen
And the horror movie
though it may seem groovy
begets the horrendous
and drills evil thoughts subliminally
into the subconscious!
Viewing those gruesome swashbuckling films
gives rise to morbid sadistic whims
Flipping through the TV channels just ponder
if the telly's the perfect channel
of information is it a proper panel?
Dad always tells me, 'fear ye the roaches' flicking antennae?
While you oughtta fear the influence
of 'em' flickering images by dish antennae'.
It's an unrestrained dark faking
of real life reality exaggerating
Whether it's Bollywood in the East
or it's Hollywood in the West
they don't merely impart tactics of defence
but rather those of aggressive offence
Just verbal tougher gun laws couldn't halt
even underage shooting sprees
Rather it's stringent scanning of Tv content
and banning citizens from acquiring guns
that might make it forever cease
Parental supervision too tis gravely essential
should've been of parental code quintessential
So the next time you catch your youth or teen
absorbed and engrossed while glued to the screen
Just sleuth a bit just to make sure
that for the x-rated he's not too keen!
Only a mere single merit that I dug
as I drank cappucino in my mug
that atleast one couldn't live in a bubble
daily watching this bubblebug.
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My father said t.v. was bubble gum for the eyes .Β
I hate what's happening in the world today , war , guns shot into little ones ....Β ...... ..Β ..., bombs and rockets sent a far ,Β famine , laws a muck and idiots in charge .Β
What a mess .
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Yeah im glad you're of those who care about kids and the world.
warm thanks for caring comment,
Great poem with a great message
Thanks for the nice comment,Β
TV, movies, games, books, songs, social media sites, general Internet, YouTube β violence can be found anywhere and everywhere unfortunately. I think perhaps that good old fashioned family values has slipped. Too many parents take more notice of their phones than their kids x
Yeahh all amounts to onscreen violence . And u so right that good old values have slipped away causing kids to have no much surveillance and supervision as before.
warm thanks for your fine thoughts on this,Β Β take careπ·
Hello S.zaynab
Great write great message...
Seems like a lot of things are being ignored...
Great write!
Thank you for sharing...
sparrowsong
Warm thanks for your true fine comment. Take care,β
Hi,
A very insightful message cleverly and creatively delivered in poetry form. Have a positive and creative day,
Georgia βπΎ πΒ
Warmest thanks for the feedback dear,π·
Well writtenΒ
Thanks for the feedback,Β
Well written, with a good message.Β
Warm thanks for the nice comment
S.zaynab you write so, so well and effortlessly, you make it look easy.
Brilliantly conceived and a real pleasure and joy to read from beginning to end.
I see warm welcoming echoes of the late Roald Dahl andΒ Hilaire Belloc in your delivery and style of writing on display.
Especially the poem Television by Roald Dahl.
Evident in your superb poem and flow!!
And thank you for sharing your enjoyable write and its message.Β
Hii Shaun, poetry is hard for me though, esp to get the flow and smooth rhyming or even perfect free verse like you professional poets, so i get so delighted and pleased when time and again some English poets like your good self notice the literary efforts, message and entertainment in my unconventional style of poetry which are attempts to dish out fun reading that hopefully isn't boring or too commonplace as to topic and language.Β
And i recently read Road Dahl when another poet compared my writings to his, but his poem on TV is far too scintillating and fantastic than what i can ever write and its my most fav poem far more than other popular poems that i hardly understand such as 'do not go gently unto the good night" by Dylan Thomas etc.
And now i will look up Hillaire belock too.
Thanks soo much for the super comment,Β ππ΄
S.zaynab, so pleased to hear you have read Dahl's Television and as you state it is 'scintillating and fantastic'.
Hilaire Belloc never disappoints either and just for the record, Dahl was a follower of him.
And I don't know about being professional (I'm still learning on that front!) and English (I'm Welsh on that front!).
And you mention the late Dylan Thomas and he can be a joyous handful at the best of times to decipher and interpret many, many different ways in a reader's perception(s).
And keep writing man, simply keep writing and yes it can be challenging and frustrating, but when everything does eventually click (and it will click) your inner voice calls out, a job well done.
All the best to you.
And keep writing!!
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Love the poem and the subject, we need to speak out for the children.