Magical Tales, Wonders Unknown Poem by Margaret Alice

Escapism: I fear boredom more
than bubonic plague or the latest atom bomb
used to commiserate with the animal kingdom
for not being able to escape through the mind
from the reality into which we were born…

Reading about the Philadelphia Experiment:
- how during World War Two
scientists devised an electro-magnetic device
to make ships invisible and the unexpected result
the ship disappeared into another dimension

The engineer jumped overboard and travelled through
a time tunnel to 1983 where he was told
to go back and smash the device
so the ship could return to the nineteen forties
he did that and the crew that returned had gone mad!

Oh what mad joy when chancing upon
speculative theory in books by Von Berlitz and
Vincent Gaddes – recounting magical tales
unheard of before, wonders unknown
to conventional wisdom – authors worthy

Of a Jules Verne!