Modern Marketing, a Sonnet

Oh heavy heart these PR men in power
Yellow waxen masks reciting lies
Discovered by research in college towers
Who watch flashing brains in MRIs
Recording as fear lightens lobes
Word and images recorded and sold by drones
For use by corporate men round the globe
Control both CEOs and worker clones
Yet life's free forces flow in city and town
For through the dark. forces strive to transcend
As ever bruised and bloodied onward bound
Through a jumble of fears passes the path of men
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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April 15, 2020 at 12:46 AM
This must go down as one of the most powerful poems i have ever read, not only the subject matter which is superb. but the form of the poem, and the flow and rhyme.. Oh how our children are suffering now......Hope you are still around Linda,, and stay safe....where ever you are.
La France Avatar
January 21, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Congratulations on your "featured poem" this week~~
Horsman Avatar
January 18, 2011 at 10:12 PM
Brilliant Linda, this is spot on, you are no doubt in the know, on corporate issues. Just loved this, going to my fav. Harry
Brown Avatar
January 17, 2011 at 10:16 AM
Congratulations Linda on having your poetry featured this week on PoetrySoup. Love, Carol
Sweetheart Avatar
January 16, 2011 at 6:12 PM
Congrats Linda on your featured poem this week on the Soup.. great one to share with us all ...
Dietrich Avatar
December 17, 2010 at 4:50 PM
An interesting modern sonnet, LInda. I bet you have many more inside of you!
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March 16, 2010 at 4:56 PM
funny or sad surprisingly--both
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