Telly trouble ; trendsetter TV

influence
indeed
on the audience
primed subliminal
for obedience

expression.
fluid
delivery/delivered effective.

true.
so long it keeps
the lobbyists well paid.

be not he enemy
of the rating chasers
for ye be called anti-social

Thanx so much for your thoughts  on this. Did u mean it sounds anti social? Didn't mean to be but just exasperated at the violence portrayed in movies ugh. Cheers.

nope,
it meant, those with vested interests
would waste no time calling you as such
for no thief likes being caught red-handed!
your poem does the work of a spotlight
on these inflictors in plain sight!

This was superb! Not many realize the psychological damage that Television can create. And though we have our freedom of speech and expression, we should temper that with morality. Especially those seeking to rear the next generation.

This was a fantastically written piece. Thank you for sharing :)

My warmest thanx for your thoughts, expanding on this. There's just too much gore n violence in movies n kids imitate ahh. Take care.

Juveniles don't fear the prison.
coz they don't know the difference
between reality and fixation
they love fixation
read my eroticae you will know
how kids love nowadays
more to with their poles play
and YOU say

Juveniles don't fear the prison.

I mean u agree right that juveniles don't fear prisons. Yes they are onto fixation. Thanx so much for your thoughts on this.

All too true, Zaynab, and what you describe is perpetrated and perpetuated on purpose by the evil society that deems to control. Yet, as an observer and someone raised on the horrors of mindstream mayhem I always was able to discriminate between right and wrong. That said, my boyhood games often emulated what I'd just seen on tv. Good job.

Ah u mean u were able to discriminate btw right n wrong yet your boyhood games emulated that on TV. You mean all in harmless Play right? Poets discern n act better right from childhood I tink. Thanx for your review. Cheers.

I have to say you are very observant. Through your words I seemed to see some news that I have watched on tv before. Glad you care about those things that have been almost happening somewhere every day around the world. Thank you for putting them into words to share on this site.

Love RoseJasmine

Yes dear pal the recent juvenile shooting and others in the past. Warm thanx for your comment.

It's true. Ppl love drama and misery. They thrive on it. It's why I hate reality TV. I wouldn't necessarily blame it for the actions of anyone. Ppl should know right from wrong and it is important that parents teach morals and empathy. Thought provoking.

Hi, do u mean movies by reality TV? Because it's the movies which show far more bloody gore and violence than the news media. Such exaggerated knifing and killings in movies ah. Parents can teach but kids will also ape TV heroes. Warm thanx for your thoughts n comment. Take care.

Nice rite.........Our glorification of violence has been flourishing since multi-thousands of years before a TV ever got turned on. The "holy scriptures" of nearly all our established 'religions' are chock full of 'righteous' violence. It's scarier now because our hyper-intelligent, super-technology has catapulted the "instant gratification" from so many of our Sick sources & Our sick impulses.
But I may be wrong.

Hmm thanx so much for your thoughts. When I read the bible it does seem so that violence and aggression were encouraged by Jesus but then it's not the original one as we believe the original bible has been altered and adulterated. As a Muslim I read the Quran and there I read of defence or revenge wars ONLY. So no aggressive righteous violence carried out by the holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) . Yet long after his death there were so called Muslims , the type we as Shias curse, who not only killed the prophets family yet went onto aggressive conquests elsewhere.
Hey and thanx for your intellectual phrasing of the "super tech, instant gratification part" , u put it so great.

Jezus never uttered a word of violence toward anyone or any other "belief".. However, no sooner was he dead than ihis followers & chronclers were declaring all kinds  of words of idiotic (Christian soldiers marching as to war, 'neath the cross of Jesus)......" & blah,blah, bullshit blah........all for riches & control of thee 'body politik'...........All of our traditional "Beliefs" do Nothing other than perpetuate Our self-creation of unnecessary suffering.
Tis Thee Toxicity of Human Ego that makes humanity a deadly virus in the context of our beloved Mother Earth.

Very true... we aspire to be like those who we admire.
Makes you think.
Great write.

Warmest thanx for your thoughts on this.

Thanx soo much for your thoughts on this. Ah yes I ought to have realised u r a poet when u said 'his' in your fine poem. Hope u didn't mind. Happy new year.

"Now that technology has long opened this pandora's box" - that is what it has become.
But Bollywood is still a lot better than Hollyood, safer, more restricted, restrained, -- civilized.
Or at least it used to be.

I am so ashamed that the West has been the means for so much garbage to get pumped to the rest of the world !!
The USA did NOT have porn in the old days. I mean, it has all happened in the 1960s.
Censorship actually is quite normal and helpful. I hope your country still tries to combat porn and violent movies, violence for violence's sake.
America's supreme court should never have struck down law after law after
law against obscenity.
It wasn't the gov't legislatures that made
Porn legal. It was the g.d. court system.
Fortunately this experiment in legal porn, etc, will be replaced by a return to normalcy, thank God !!!

Thanx so very very much for your great honest n sincere thoughts on this. Bollywood is no good too since it is Hindu controlled and thus obscenity in all its sense has crept  in swiftly. Wow USA no porn in the past eh, I always believe humans ways are devolving in many ways instead of evolving.
I don't know which country to call my own. I was born elsewhere and though India is my motherland I have never lived there so I can't call her much of a home country.
Oh I see they do strike down many moral laws nowadays ahhh.
Cheers n happy new yr.

This is a very powerful piece..
The media is literally wrecking the minds of the youth..
Your insights are on point!!!

Thanx naajir even if its not my newest poem. Best wishes.

Urban in your face logic for the depraved

I'm not a rhyme poet but you work it well here

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Sory didn't get u in the first line, urban?
Oh u don't like rhyme. Ah I like doing it. Sorry bye.
My poems may be a mixture of freeverse n rhyme sometimes though.

If rhyme works for you,  you should do it all day long

I liked this poem

Again, good rhyme. I like you adressing the subject of media and it's influence on peoples minds. Good write!

Warm thanx, I really wish u reviewed my newest poem too. Take care.

I did read it, but I actually don't subscribe to mandatory smiles. You don't want to get me started on that

Oh that's ok. I enjoyed your different point of view on my poem. Well smiles are not obligatory, u can even give sarcastic and angry smiles like I do with those who try to look down upon me with a scowl or Sth. Cheers.  😉

Its not just the telly but radios books our entire system is set to destroy minds of the children to make them obiedent to what society deems the role

Oh yes you are so right, violence is ducted on all types of media. Great to know how you added to my poem, though this isn't my newest. Thanks much!