Devolving
Is there something in the water or air
that's spreading stupidity everywhere?
Children aren't learning their lessons in school,
vying to be the latest TikTok fool.
As a whole, society's devolving:
a worldwide problem, in need of solving.
It seems everyone is glued to their phones:
no individualism; we're mere clones.
The internet has morphed into a cage,
where stifled minds stagnate and disengage.
Hate
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Categories:
devolving, america, anxiety, change, how
Form: Couplet
Tropical: a Devolving Haiku Chain
Tropical summer
a somnolent pond daydreams
in spite of the storm
Tropical bummer
a cool, noisy pool dazzles
in spite of the swarm
Tropical drummer
a quiet puddle dances
in spite of the sloth
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Teeming surface
a lurking panda daydreams
in spite of the scream
Tortuous swamp
a hot, noisy fly plots
to spit on the snark
Turbulent duet
a flying saxophone schemes
to smite the serpent
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IN THE StorMy spIt
A LURkiNg
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Categories:
devolving, nature, nonsense, summer, surreal,
Form: Haiku
People Devolving
Through the decades, over the years,
Supposed to be most superior in the sphere;
We went backwards, faculty enslaved,
Darwin cries in his grave!
Humans lost humanity,
Animals won the race,
With selfish motives and vanity,
Printed pieces of paper we chase!
Behinde the screens we hide,
Nobody to face;
In judging we take pride,
At the cost of fellow's disgrace!
We swear, we honk, we shout,
Impatient
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Categories:
devolving, deep, emotions, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Our World Devolving
Savage beatings
Not within reason
Rioting police lines
Violence is in season
A city gets divided
Teens called this time
A purge filled with crime
Words by a mayor
Incited Civil unrest
Mass panic attacks
While patience is put
To the ultimate test
Encroachments at its best
Why are we waiting
When even the mayor
Wont stop complaining
National guard called
A state of emergency
An entire city is walled
Are all
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Categories:
devolving, america, community, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Devolving . . . ?
I remember the days not so very long ago
When a man was a man above his own ego
When trouble arose he would come a running
Like a knight in armour he'd drop his hunting
The damsel he would rescue, the fiends he would clobber
Make no subconscious mistake he was like no other
Toiling day and night for his
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Categories:
devolving, confusion
Form: Sonnet