Note from Joe: Here’s another example of great poetry that would be missed by “serious” students of poetry, because it appears at first glance to be childish and silly. It’s anything but. Read it slowly and carefully, and I promise it’ll hit you. Right in the heart. You’ve been warned.
Super HeroAnonymousI think I’d like to fly In an invisible plane, With a long red cape covering A skimpy outfit (a motif of red white and blue), Wearing shiny reflective bracelets To reflect bullets and death rays And venomous words. And wielding a rope of extraordinary strength. I think I’d like to fly
I’ll have unsurpassing balance
I won’t worry about a relationship.
And somehow, year after year,
And through it all I’ll never tire,
I think I’d like to fly
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