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Fishhook Chicanery

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

To survive and remain optimistic in today’s world, one has to stay very aware of the disguised lures of persuasion.

Monday, March 13, 2023


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Fishhook Chicanery

 

To be an innocent

Exploring an environment of peace

Finding basics lacking

Hunger

Overhead protection

Unable to move

Knowing there was freedom

Only to find

Fastlane Highwaymen

Dangling desire

Sensing desperation

Experts at creating false trust

 

How precarious…

 

To be an innocent

Is to be vulnerable

To be enlightened

Is to be a warrior

Protective of your kingdom

Of acceptance

But without compromise

 

Survival begs attention

 

Beware the shimmer and lure

Warn family and friends

Casting unwanted desire is the dangle

By those

With fishhook patience

 



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Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on March 14, 2023
Do you have a standby artist waiting to paint an image of your words?
Astounding clarity! And good advice. It looks like an old-style formal jacket...

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on March 14, 2023
We see the tantalizing lure of advertisements trying to suck us into their mystique, but I don't fall for it anymore. in fact, I see right through all those ads and merely feel annoyed every time one of them comes on, either on the TV or on the Net. I always turn the sound off. I wonder if those advertising realize that they are turning many people off nowadays. "Beware the shimmer and lure" indeed and yes, be warned.

Reviewed by Elisabeth Barstowe
Reviewed on March 13, 2023
Well. I don’t know about you. But I’d rather be naive, loving, helpful and friendly than any of the other options out there. Great writing and great food for thought as usual.


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