Annual Poetry Contest

Outcasts

By Joe Burns  Eustis, FL
2002 Contest: Honorable Mention Place

Gallileo, Michelangelo, Einstein, Plato

All outcasts of their nobility,

Darwin, Lindbergh, Nostradamus, Shakespeare

None of them accepted,

Martin Luther, Earhart, Armstrong, Churchill

Theory's always in vision,

Aristotle, Newton, Ford, Graham Bell

Inventors of differences,
Franklin, Columbus, Wright Brothers, Edison

Leaders of discovery,

Hemingway, Poe, Farley, Kipling

Presenters of literature

Outcasts I lift my glass to you.