Hi all, I thought I would try something a bit different and have started writing poems using the Legion of Superheroes as my inspiration...not really about individual characters but just seeing where the idea takes me. I have done one for Shadow Lass & Phantom Girl so far, I am gonna try Dream Girl next. Feel free to contribute your own!
SHADOW LASS
And if you asked her she’d tell you
She runs along the shore at night
Tide lapping at her feet
Because that’s when all the world is gone
Enveloped in darkness
Shrouded in shadow
On the good nights
She can’t even see stars
No pinpoint reminders
That existence exists
Just the brace of cold sea
The stillness of the air
The calm hold of nothing
Her blood warming her breast
Sweat bathing invisible skin
And the sound of her breath
To make her feel at home
Running in shadow.
PHANTOM GIRL
These people are difficult to navigate
Harder than the streets
So she'll stick to those lanes and alleyways
Avoid the arteries of a living city
Wander its silent deadways instead
She'll come across a cat or a rodent
Feel some blue empathy
They live bewildered too
Scrabbling furiously to survive
The stranglehold of society's intent
Sometimes she sees graffiti
Smells fresh paint
And she documents it
One human's efforts
To fight the flood that each dawn brings
The oppression of sameness that drowns them all
She'd like to imagine herself making her mark like that
She'd like to have something to say
But for now she'll keep to herself
Her breath will go unheard
And she'll waft through this indelicate landscape
Until the end.
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