FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: CITY LIVING Send up to three poems on the subject of or just using either the words city and/or living 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 February 16th. 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: City Living will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Patrick Walters

a pome for naples


         i cling to the memory

                          of breathing there


 first espresso

                        first kiss


           first vespa 

                             for two


   allegra knew

                all the gelato places


                   sailing away

                                        wrote a thing 

                        about 

                                 her sound


have a read 

             a love pome

                                  bout that 

            long ago girl


 


soul 

       allegra


                   strings vibrate

        in time


              feet sweep

                      through puddles


         she  

dares

                       tango

               with

                      rain




juss the way it goes

                           i guess


asshole one

               plus

asshole two


               always equals

                           a rejected neglected


asshole three

               that pulls an ending trigger 


guns and graves

          go

                 hand in hand


politicians

                and  pastors

thoughts and prayers

          say meaningful nothings


           casket makers 

stone carvers

                       undertakers

every one


           have their hands full

                                              these days


what withal 


          them gradeschoolers

                     them music dancers

    them champion celebrators


               that on their trigger day 

kind children all

                        would not see 

another tomorrow


              HOW MANY WRITES LIKE THIS

NEED TO BE WROTE


                        before it ends


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