Brummet's Conscious Blog

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 t...