Reason A. Poteet Poet Verse

Today's Children

Silliness coupled with much humdrum
drains creative energy from the minds of children.
Bored kids, raised by televisions, make warped decisions.
Viewed daily by the hour, murder becomes ordinary. 

The wild lunacy of far too many people
causes vulgarity to erupt at an early age.
Integrity is not taught by crude interjections.
Reality: kids mimic adults without perception. 

Elegance is foreign; brutality, common.
In modern childhood decorum is misunderstood
as mere rules and likewise humility is worthless
Laxity reigns with sporadic parental harshness. 

Today’s children have a mentality and morality
that would rattle our great-grandparents’ false teeth.
Our children are wiser than their peers of yesteryears,
re: street-smarts, fits and starts and body parts.

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Kim Rodrigues January 26, 2017 at 3:04 PM Terrific write! Especially the first two lined of FINAL stanza! So true or aptly said Reason A. Poteet February 1, 2017 at 10:56 PM thank you, Kim. The words were a mouthful. Since the contest is judged, I reworded it more efficiently for understanding by the average reader. But I kept the last stanza, as it made sense.