FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: PIE SIGHS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words pie and/or sigh, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on March 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Pie Sighs will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 16th between 3 and 5 pm PDT.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Mary Mayer Shapiro

For Filling a Dream 


Apple tree rooted in the orchard 

Enjoying the zephyr 

While the apples mature 

To full growth 

Socializing with each other 

What do you want to be 

When you grow up said one 

All answered in as if all at once 

A plain fruit to be eaten 

Apple sauce, jelly, apple tart 

Apple pie 

Scientific apple, help Issac Newton 

Discover gravity 

One apple hanging in the tree 

Never realized his fate when grown 

Only wanted to sway with the breeze 

Depression set in 

Would not accept his destiny 

Decided to break free and run away 

An idea came to him 

I will be like Johnny Apple seed 

When the time came 

Decided to break free and run far away 

As he rotted, he dug his seeds into the earth 

Continued the process throughout the years 

Spread Apple trees throughout the land 




A Pie in the Sky 


Wouldn't it be wonderful 

If the Garden of Eden extended 

Throughout the land 

Peaceful existence, no war 

No anger, jealously or greed 

Love and caring for you fellow being 

Food plentiful, no pollution 

But you cannot be children all your life  

You must take responsibility for yourselves 

Eat from the Tree of Knowledge 

Make decision, think for yourselves  

When wrong, make right 

Take the good with the bad 

A pie in the sky is a dream world 

Just another fairy tale 




Pi 


Mathematical constant 

3.14159 

A ratio of a circle’s circumference 

To its diameter 

 

A decimal representation 

Never ends 

Not a repeating pattern 

With no solution 

 

Created by Archimedes 

Using hexagons inside and outside a circle 

Creation of Pi 

Is a miracle by itself 

 

Be aware 

It is a Pi you cannot eat 

Not a thing you can taste 

Only something you can count  


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