Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words hell and/or heaven, totaling up to 150 lines in length including stanza breaks, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PDT on September 22nd. No PDF's please. Color and B&W artwork are also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Hell or Heaven will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, September 23rd between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Sunday, September 24, 2023

R A Ruadh

4H Club  

(a Heptet of Heaven Hell Haiku)


Billionaires promise

heaven as long as we work

to build our own hell


Man’s heaven requires

a hell of women’s bodies

to lift them on high


Heaven versus hell

is based on an assumption

of powerlessness


Hell is creative

heaven is just arrogance

which sounds quite boring


Heaven and hell are

for control freaks and psychos

I choose to live now


If all you promise

is only hell or heaven

just count me out thanks


Heaven glorious

already is ours on earth

don’t damn it to hell


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