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.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Radomir Vojtech Luza

Wounded Lion


Paws drowning in blood

Whiskers caked in mud

Claws colored in skin


Bated sighs

Red blueberry pies

Trembling thighs


I hurt

I am scarred

Bruised and battered


But I continue on

Like a butterfly in a barn 


Never stopping or hopping on myself

I soar through the jungle like a bent 747

Rampaging Rhinoceros

Jealous Jaguar


Weeping at dawn

Sobbing at dusk


Soul at rust

Heart to dust


When do I heal?

Get real?

Seal the deal?


Maybe when I start to feel

The ocean at the street of Beale

 



Substitute Cowboy


Through the caged sighs

Carefree lies

Boysenberry pies


I see you for who you are

A runaway dictator

With nothing to say


My grandfather's Nazi murderer

Dressed in dark gray


Grandpappa, Czech General on midnight steed

Leader of the Czech Resistance during WWII


Ambushed and murdered in 1944

Highest possible state honor at the door


The good always pay 

For the evil we bray


Loving and giving

Killing and willing


Who was this soldier in black?

A golden rainbow knack?


Mankind's last chance

At a moral meteor attack?


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