Preposterous Poem by Stanley Cooper

Such preposterous a thought! A man with wings
Flying on high above buildings and things
Soaring through clouds floating up in the blue
The Wright brothers said, ” Birds do it. We can too.”

Such preposterous a thought! A boat under water
Yet the navy came up with this metal transporter
A submarine moving through murk of the ocean
Brought reality to what was once just a notion

Such preposterous a thought! A man on the moon
It couldn’t be done, at least not very soon
But we managed to do it. We landed on Lunar
Not far in the future, but very much sooner

Such preposterous a thought! A bulb all aglow
Thomas Edison dreamed it a long time ago
What say them now, those purveyors of doubt
Going their rounds putting old gaslight out

Such preposterous a thought! Doomsayers most always defame
Their vision of what’s possible is not one to claim
If we left it to them, there’d still be no wheel
We wouldn’t be driving the automobile

Those preposterous skeptics, somewhat inane
Are deserving of nothing more then disdain
With positive thinking we will succeed
Achieving our goals of society’s need

Such preposterous a thought, to have peace on our earth
Of cynical doubters there is not a dearth
May the future show, we didn’t dismay
Let’s focus on peace, starting today