Wanted: Superhero
Do you have:
Ice-cold touch to refreeze melting seas
and fix broken ice shelves?
Super-strength to right felled emergent trees
and rehang the rainforest canopy?
Enhanced vision for sewing delicate stitches
to neatly patch up holes in the ozone?
The power of flight for speeding through the atmosphere,
sifting the smoke and fumes
in a finer-than-gossamer net?
Webbed feet for propelling yourself through the oceans,
scooping up huge quantities of oil and plastic pollution?
A silver tongue of supernatural eloquence
for coaxing and cajoling the human race
to change habits and lifestyle?
Working together, we believe all this can be done.
So, if you have a good sense of fun
and all the skills we need
to be able to succeed,
please do not delay.
Apply today!
Ice-cold touch to refreeze melting seas
and fix broken ice shelves?
Super-strength to right felled emergent trees
and rehang the rainforest canopy?
Enhanced vision for sewing delicate stitches
to neatly patch up holes in the ozone?
The power of flight for speeding through the atmosphere,
sifting the smoke and fumes
in a finer-than-gossamer net?
Webbed feet for propelling yourself through the oceans,
scooping up huge quantities of oil and plastic pollution?
A silver tongue of supernatural eloquence
for coaxing and cajoling the human race
to change habits and lifestyle?
Working together, we believe all this can be done.
So, if you have a good sense of fun
and all the skills we need
to be able to succeed,
please do not delay.
Apply today!
This poem is copyright (©) Jacqueline Shirtliff 2026
About the Writer
Jacqueline Shirtliff
Jacqueline is a poet and primary school teacher on the Isle of Man. One of her favourite things is helping children to love poetry and reading and encouraging them to be writers themselves. She lives in a rose-covered cottage near the sea and enjoys gardening, crochet, and playing the tuba and harp, but not all at the same time! You can read some of her other poems in The Caterpillar, Tyger Tyger, Northern Gravy, The Toy, and Little Thoughts Press.
