Poetry Time

This monthly blog post series celebrates the world of poetry, sharing one or two poems per post - featuring other guest poet's work, or our own.

The poem Living Disease (below) was excerpted from the book Rhythm & Rhyme, one of the books in our Playing With Words series available, of course, on Amazon. 

Living Disease

There are too many children

Walking the dirty streets

Too many children

With this living disease

Where are the heroes?

They’ve succumbed to cement.

Where are the parents?

They’re trying to pay the rent.

When TV’s baby-sit

And computers consume the rest

Glued to cells and berries and pods

And one more list to do.

This use of knowledge 

Is dumbing down our world.

A lack of life skills

Leaves minds in a whirl.

Compliance to violence

Shaking hands admit defeat

Why don’t we stand up 

To this living disease?

© Lillian Brummet

* This poem was written in November ’08 to the rhythm of a song I heard on the radio and that rhythm somehow became a catalyst for the poem I had been struggling to write, but then flew from the tip of the pen in a matter of moments once the rhythm found a place in my head. It is meant to read like a call and response conversation.

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