Amanda* (inspired by Robert Klein)
Don't bite your cynicism, Amanda.
Don't live by the books.
Stop your conformism and curve up your cave, Amanda!
Splattered by boisterous sea, swim by the sharks, Amanda.
Did you tidy your principles, Amanda?
Freedom from serfdom within is sweet, Amanda.
Roam the streets of fire,
instead of cozy fireside, Amanda.
Will you please look in the mirror,
someone is speaking to you, Amanda.
You're your own guard in a tower, Amanda.
Release the pirate, turn into queen of seven seas, Amanda.
Facts now have alternatives to fortify an elite’s status
Truth has lost its authority
Principles abandoned as minds become amorous to like-minds
Intellectual treachery
Corporations have frozen the status quo
Arrested ideology
Anti-capitalism is pretentious and treasonous
Distrust the politics, kill the new entry
Religion is a sanctuary of poverty walled by tyrants
Machiavellian weaponry
A cloaked politician claims anointment from God
Blind flock in an amen chantry
Jesus misunderstood for good for life is good
Yield to Caesar with slavery
Every system wants a piece of your livelihood
Patriotic puppetry
They invade privacy with dosages of conformism
Online artillery
I am an armoured guerilla in a humanism suicide vest
Blowing up the system
A – Again and again
F – Freedom is
R - Reduced
I - Into
C – Conformism for lack of
A – Alternative opportunities
A – Another man
F – Flees due to
R - Repeated
I – Injustice leading to
C – Coastal body counts
A – Ashore the Mediterranean
A – A lot of
F – Free
R – Rivers flowing everywhere
I – Incarnating life and blossoming its beauty
C – Conflict and corruptness shouldn’t find a place
A – Among the most cultured and joyous communities
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Society
an illusion, the shimmering mirage in a blistering desert of homogeny
with silicon grains seen only as dunes
mass minded sheep willfully penned in suspiciously safe paddocks
fearful of everything and nothing
tumultuous ocean with waves of conformism and exclusion
where rivers of contrast flow diluted to extinction
one and few dreaming in clouds and walking on air
tethered to a wonderfully disparate and inclusive reality
September 24, 2016
Poetry Contest: What is Society?
Sponsor: Ir0nic ZiNk
Rules:
- Let's see if you can describe society better than the next.
- You may terrify me.
- you may glorify me.
- You may even simply summarize society to the best of your ability.
- 10 lines max...
- bring it on! No holds bar
- Any form allowed
We’re surrounded in a world of popularity vampires.
Overwhelmed by their petty wants and false needs.
Living in a society designed for perfection propaganda.
Secretly devising a way to beat the odds of change.
Forever trying to pass the heart wrenching days with substance.
Drilled into our very brains that every rampant thought is sin.
Gone are the notions of individuality,
The vanishing ideas of self esteem.
Broken hearts and minds tearing themselves apart to serenades of forced conformism.
Beauty within trashed in regards to ideals of false perfection.
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