[Stylist] Poem: "Green Lantern"

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Thanks.  I liked that, and think I got it.

You may want to send that to Bewildering Stories.  They publish poems with a sciFi bent.

If they don't, they'll give you a critique that will make future poems better.

Just a thought.

Shawn

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HI Stylists,


Here's a poem that takes as a point of departure the current obsession with superheroes.  We hear a lot about Batman and Superman, but my own favorite hero, Green Lantern, rarely gets mentioned.  This poem is about why I like him above all the others.


--Brax




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Green Lantern

Abraxas Ardent  copyright 2018
United States of America
All Rights Reserved

I favor the Lantern over Batman and Supes.
They're mighty, all right, wearing their pain like a second cape and banishing their Luthors, their Jokers, like four color Patricks driving out snakes.
But it's a lonely heroics, isn't it,
to dwell all alone in a fortress, a batcave, to waive all your rights to dancing and mates?
Hal Jordan became the light of forest force; with Green Lantern Corps, he's a knight among knights, his ring a band to signify kinship with heroes of a bright and brothered cosmos, a savior circus,a cosmic posse:
humane, gently fierce and sublime.
I'm tempted to set my own capes aside
and wear a ring to remind my Batman head of happier Hal, whose greener strength, instead of caves and Kryptonite, is bred to serve in partnered might.





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  "A crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead." --Auden


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