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.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Shih-Fang Wang

Heaven Became Hell


The fatal spark 

The savage wind

The dry vegetation

Formed the firenadoes


The ferocious heat 

The rampaging inferno

Engulfed everything 

As it advanced


The speed too rapid to escape

Houses burnt to the ground

Cars incinerated

Lives turned to ashes 


Smoke blackened the sky

It was the darkest day 

For this island

Heaven became hell


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