Who's Distracted?!
Acrostic Alliteration Experiment
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Dazzling displays, carefully curated.
Ill intents ingeniously engineered, enthralling everyone.
Spend! Splurge! Squander! Continually collect credit cards!
Tantalising token truths, meticulously masqueraded misrepresentations,
‘Requirements’ ruthlessly, relentlessly, retailed.
Aimed at anyone so suitably suggestible.
Constant consumerism carefully constructed,
To tempt, to terrify, coerce, control.
Ingrained idealistic ignorance, socially sanctioned, starts
Obstinate obedience, reduced resistance.
Necessary? Not at all.
Author's Note:
I am far from a poet, but have a personal policy of trying my had at genres that take me out of my comfort zone. An Acrostic poem certainly does that! So why not keep pushing past that comfort and combine two types of poetry?
After some reflection on what distraction means to me, I discovered that the majority of the things I believe to be distracting in the world come back to one core human behaviour: consumerism.
And while the drive of the dollar is something we are very aware of, few are aware of the things we encounter in everyday life that manipulate consumers and encourage the behaviours.
Make no mistake. As a group, we as consumers may be unaware, those seeking to part us from our money, are not.
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Comments (8)
That was a really nice piece! I enjoyed it. You might be interested in giving my poetry forms a go.
Very nicely done.
Excellent work worthy of a Top Story
Strong message, well executed 😁 Good luck in the challenge!
I love that there's such solid cadence throughout, and a clear undertone. VERY well done! LOVE this! ❤️
Fabulous!!! Constant social media and advertising messages are extremely distractions!!!💖💖💕
GREAT WORK !!
Wonderful job. ❤️