She came to the house
and told me his parents
would be sorry…
“They wouldn’t let us
marry,” she said.
“He’s never even seen his baby.’…
“The military will
make a man of him.”
they said…
Two months later
a clip in the local newspaper.
Our town has lost it’s first son…
Now, everybody’s sorry…
Crystal Persuasion
Crystals of kryptonite drain
the strength from Superman.
Pebbles flung across the universe,
not a gift from the creator,
but from the greedy hand of man.
Sue Crisp is a writer of poetry and children’s books. Her work has been published online on Medusa’s Kitchen, NiceNet, in two anthologies of Lummox Press, two publications of Voices of Lincoln, and others. Sue also has two chapbooks pending publication by the end of the year by Lummox Press. She has one published book for children. Sue writes a wide variety of poetry in many forms, and is submitting two poems for your consideration for publication.