Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week are: backbone, cheapen and dangle.
Empty Promises
A backbone
Is scarce
Around here;
Stances
Are not taken.
Re-election
Is the sole aim.
Morals gone,
Forsaken.
Votes!
Votes!
Dangled banknotes!
A con game
Buy the lies,
Don’t discuss
The promises
Just disappear
It cheapens
All of us.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2016
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Polling stations do have the air of a pee stained phone box - you think your little X makes a difference but shudder when you leave..i don't think truth is valued in many areas of life sadly..
ReplyDeleteHow right you are.
ReplyDeleteAnd increasingly it is becoming obvious to me that we are seeing the same pig, in nicer lipstick...
Around here as well...!
ReplyDeletethe same story everywhere....
ReplyDeleteI like the way your poem is set out a bit like a backbone. The age of democracy is dead..we're back to plutocracy the world over.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant write.
ReplyDeleteUniversally true, unfortunately!
ReplyDeleteTell them off! That's right! Politicians are all the same the world over!
ReplyDeleteHank
very nice craft
ReplyDeleteHave a happy Sunday
much love...
That first line says it perfectly! And yet they do not understand....
ReplyDeleteDemocracy, and too many of its people, has indeed lost a backbone.
ReplyDeleteLove the structure of the poem, too.
Bread and circuses... It's always been that... Sad when even appearances have been given up.
ReplyDeleteI agree.........it is always such a relief when one of the candidates is reality-based and talks sense. All the hyperbole and name calling is just sickening.
ReplyDeleteSpot on!
ReplyDelete"Dangled banknotes!" Ain't that the truth!
ReplyDeleteThe more politicians are paid, the more corrupt they become. The greater their pension grows the more they line their pockets. They are only interested in the elector once every 3 or 4 years...but we are watching them.
ReplyDeleteWell said...corruption in those banknotes...
ReplyDeleteWell that calls it the cats out of the bag.
ReplyDeletedon't you hate that when they tell you how to think and vote?
ReplyDeleteAll too true .. and it's true all over the world. Bastet
ReplyDeleteYup!
ReplyDeleteZQ
with no backbone we are mollusks...step back to caves...
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