Telly influences and dangers

 (I have posted this poem of mine on several different international poetry sites everytime there is a school shooting in the U.S as I care about all children deeply and feel for innocent lives lost.

What kids are watching on telly
are crimes and crimes in all variety!
Crimes of hate
crimes of passion
acting it out at shocking rate
thinking in some wild fashion
then ending up cell mates
TV can kill their compassion
Their coffins enter cemetery gates

When kids watch their movie heroes
shoot down people with the gun
they are incited to do the same
to achieve some thrill and fun.

When they see their very film star
slash someone's throat in a fit of anger
they think well of crimes of rage
and plunge everybody else into danger.

The tendency to portray the violent scene
luridly and shockingly on the Big Screen
Ah, even for the small screen, tis the gory
that makes for the dark and thrilling story.

Now that technology's long opened
this wily pandora's box,
the dispersal of amplified social ills
just ain't no hoax

The rowdy hoodlums and reckless gangsters
are simply by-products of Tv influences
The world watches the thriving of the bully-boy pranksters
passively in helpless terror of their offences.

It's all portrayal of the vulgar, the obscene
by that devious Silver Screen
And the horror movie
though it may seem groovy
begets the horrendous
and drills evil thoughts subliminally
into the subconscious!

Viewing those gruesome swashbuckling films
gives rise to morbid sadistic whims
Flipping through the TV channels just ponder
if the telly's the perfect channel
of information is it a proper panel?

Dad always tells me, 'fear ye the roaches' flicking antennae?
While you oughtta fear the influence
of 'em' flickering images by dish antennae'.

It's an unrestrained dark faking
of real life reality exaggerating
Whether it's Bollywood in the East
or it's Hollywood in the West
they don't merely impart tactics of defence
but rather those of aggressive offence

Just verbal tougher gun laws couldn't halt
even underage shooting sprees
Rather it's stringent scanning of Tv content
and banning citizens from acquiring guns
that might make it forever cease

Parental supervision too tis gravely essential
should've been of parental code quintessential
So the next time you catch your youth or teen
absorbed and engrossed while glued to the screen
Just sleuth a bit just to make sure
that for the x-rated he's not too keen!

Only a mere single merit that I dug
as I drank cappucino in my mug
that atleast one couldn't live in a bubble
daily watching this bubblebug.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

The elites and Illuminati control the world including the media music and film industry schools news films computer games look it up they put out evil on purpose even in pop stars and movie stars ok so until that group is gone I don’t know what to say without going deeper everything that’s happening in the world they are the root cause
I liked your poem it’s tragic all the shootings yes
The roots of the groups what I mentioned above have infiltrated schools govts everywhere
I can’t go on about it anymore but your poem hit a chord it was well done 👍

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

Woah gahh this is the second time a poet is mentioning how even the music and rap, pop songs and music influence towards crime and evil by glorifying it. Really sad. And one american poet actually wrote how the satanist illuminati are behind many largescale tragedies worldwide and rejoice at mass deaths.
Scary world if they follow the devil himself!
Warm thanks for your very enlightened comment.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

I’ve never mentioned it before this is indeed the first time and I wasn’t glorifying it I was condemning it actually

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

Nooooh dear you quite misunderstood me, my English perhaps not very clear coz i don't know punctuation very well. I meant this is the second time that another western poet tells how music glorified evils and violence. Of course you condemned it, thats what I got from your comment dear.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

My bad thanks 🙏

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Younger kids cannot easily decipher what is supposed to be entertainment and what is reality...just like violent video games.
It is very sad that we are living in such a volatile world.
And the next one wants to outdo the previous one.
I feel they should never mention the names of the shooters...that way they do not get their fifteen minutes of notoriety....they remain anonymous....might help curb the violence.
j.
j.

[S.zaynab.kamoonpury]

Thanks soo much for a very wise thoughtful comment,
I would be worried about their few mins notoriety but then they usually get killed right, before they can watch themselves in limelight.
Young kids are too impressionable yes and can easily be influenced by violent onscreen heroes .