Commercialism Poems - Poems about Commercialism

Throughout a program playing so Or the streaming of a show, Commercials advertise the new... Broadcasting to me and you. Only seconds long, they toss Their message out to get across. Straightforward - sometimes with humour To appeal to the consumer. Marketed products for sale... New lines of recent retail. Variations of a flavour Or something similar to savour. Through jingles and spoken word... Business making itself heard. Near...

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In streets adorned with neon lights, We're sold a dream of grand delights, But beware, for what glitters gold, May only serve to leave us cold. The market's claws can gouge and bite, While we succumb to its great might, We trade our souls for cheap applause, And become slaves to want and flaws. Amidst the aisles and billboards bright, Our hearts and minds...

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Well within the city limits mysteries Suburban people to the core escape Into a wilderness of houses bunched together Outside town, outside the reaches of police In giant vehicles much bigger Much larger than ordinary cars Good citizens leave congested streets For the homogenization of...

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Habits are difficult to break… and when lethal it is as if trying to scale a fence with barbs at the top. Smoking, drug addiction, bad relationships attach to one’s spirit like flypaper or gooey-spider-webs, entrapping the soul, gumming-up divine essence making it difficult for God to be heard above the interference, and for us to discern the clear, clean direction of Mother...

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There's something about pollution that makes you think you belong Perhaps it's nature's fart Or maybe other's told you bare sick winds for their art There's something about a sick wind that makes you want to fart Perhaps it's nature's randy Or perhaps; for making blart...

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