Phoenix Jones

Celluloid produces, like robots, many superheroes, Who, like rat-snakes, in real life, is cowardice zeroes; A Tamil-hero, for instance, catches flying bullets, Re-sends them and massacres many villains, like pullets...! There's heaven-hell difference betwixt real life and reel, Though both, for human life, are like vehicles and their wheel; As savior of the victim drowning, the reel hero acts, Real hero saves the drowning and protects moral pacts...! Superhero is a bolt; millions of armies in one; Police, thieves, engineers, doctors... all into a stern-gun; Phoenix Jones was Good-Samaritan in fantasy form, Doing good to the troubled, was his genuine norm...! Benjamin John Francis Fodor (less known), born in Texas, Witnessed vandalism involving cool criminal nexus; Common public, to crimes, like buffaloes, stood feeling-less, They witnessed incidents; did nothing; stood as though helpless...! Son's legs sliced; car broken; neither for his nor his son's sins; Friend assaulted; he found his surroundings once again in ruins; Trying desperately to reach the safe-guarders of law, Left looted, found a mask fall on him filling him with awe...! It's with this mask he took his new birth into Phoenix Jones, Designed appealing outfits that suited his skin and bones; Prowled around like a lion, breaking, cracking and thrashing, Harming the criminals; not the innocent kids splashing...! He patrolled in streets of Seattle voluntarily, Destroyed criminals, like lion or tiger, merrily; Fed the hungry; clothed the naked; sheltered the shelter-less, He wished the entire humanity to grow fetter-less...! His actions, (full of good intentions) inspired young and old, To the Superhero Movement many their names enrolled; Thanatos, Nyx... many such real life heroes stood still, Taking oath to clean the society, of its evil...! 14 August 2022 Superhero or Supervillain Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori