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.

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Radomir Vojtech Luza

Lord Lavender


Spayed by their reign

Losing my brain

36 years of institutions and pain


White coats

Iron bolts


Neutral halls

Bald walls


Never knowing joy

A black toy


Holding back the tears

For years


Others making plans

For my wild and wooly glands

Freedom's cold and hard hands


Independence a hard hold

Meds, beds and doctor's heads

Rolling into Nirvana's fold


My gift quivering

Conformity shimmering


Sprayed by God's rain

Jealousy insane


The good little boy who always

Did what they wanted

Sleeping undaunted


Taking razor to wrist

On hell's bucket list




Autumn Sky


Burnt like dust

Red as rust


Thin trees

Heroine breeze

Lofting over brown bees


Fall ceiling

Flowing next to tan dreaming


Chocolate leaves

Bursting beneath bony knees


October in Central Park

Like Abraham Lincoln in King Arthur's Court


Drinking sky

Like sipping lie


On majestic buttresses so high

Devouring heaven's saffron pie




Wild Boy

(Dedicated to Fred LeBlanc of the band Cowboy Mouth)


On the outskirts of sanity

He sings of existence and vanity


No one like him nowhere

He dares us to care


Dressed in flair and

Riding a mare named success


He spins instinct and talent

Into something valiant


Long hair and

A devil may care


We are all mesmerized by his stare

Ten fingers and a drummer's glare


He takes rock n' roll

From here to there


Knocking down heaven's door

Bursting onto Nirvana's fluorescent floor


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