In the first weeks of the flying saucer hysteria of 1947, many opinions were offered about the mystery. Some people expressed their outlook in the form of poetry, and here's a small collection of some early notable examples.
The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, from July 4, 1947:
Two saucer poems from The Boston Globe, July 7, 1947:
A (premature) lament about the end of the saucers. From the Pennsylvania Altoona Tribune, July 22, 1947:
And finally, not exactly poetry, but a piece on what William Shakespeare might have said about UFOs. From Ohio's Dayton Daily News, July 8, 1947:
Another great post of Saucer esoterica
ReplyDeleteAnother glimpse into the mind of a lost America
Where the Space Brothers beckoned us
to a higher plain
But yet here we remain
Standing in the dust, with our eyes to the skies
one hand firmly on our wallets
least the UFO con-men sneak up behind and steal it
causing us to cry out,
“Oh, bollocks!”