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Fact or fiction
by Ruan Mills → (All Poetry by Ruan Mills)
Wednesday, April 13, 2022    Rated "G" by the Author.
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I wonder what's on the news today...


Poem Artwork

Fable flies a tainted flag
A cloth of red to wave...distract
Drama seeks to draw a lure
Divert the hordes away from fact.
An over-acting, petty muse
to dance in lights, attract the gaze.
Look here - see this...not there - nor that,
Ignore the main event's displays.

Puppets (paid a princely sum)
Fulfil their 'owners' obligate
to storm and rage with discontent,
While viewers gasp and remonstrate,
unaware that all the while,
another tale unfolds its moods
from safely darkened center stage,
Concealed by faux fracas' and feuds...

which seek to guard, suppress, enrobe,
to shield; away from public eye.
To entertain - Form public view
To mold the minds, prevent decry.
'Behold, this bright and sparkly thing,
with which to dazzle, bait, entice...
See how they're chased, each time they're placed;
these baubles, as a sacrifice...'


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 Reviews of "Fact or fiction"
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on April 20, 2022
I believe you make some very valid points, Ruan. Well done! Love, peace, and best wishes to you,

Regis. 🙏📘📚📖🦉

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on April 16, 2022
So true. And told with skill, much insight, and with immpecably good taste.

Reviewed on April 16, 2022
This is spot on, covert operations being devised every day.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 13, 2022
Good journalism is still alive in mainstream media. One way to tell is to listen to the so-called experts and see if they're pushing an agenda. The purpose of many media sources is to dig into history and try to prove certain mysteries about the past that never were true but are indoctrinated in many people's minds as true, having heard the stories from early in life when the brain is open to almost anything.

Ron


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