FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: BODY PARTS Send up to three poems on the subject of or just using either the words body and/or part 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 January 19th. 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: Body Parts will be published online and will be invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, January 20th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Shih-Fang Wang

Struggle

 

They tell me to treasure life

How can I when in my eyes

The rainbow turns into a black belt

Across the sky like a hanging rope

The sun blocked by a raven shroud

No longer shines

I hear birdsongs in weeping tones

Like a funeral dirge

 

The gateway to hope

Is slammed shut

I become a prisoner

The world my dark cell

People around me are jailors

Watching me with silent scorn

 

Time becomes unbearable

I want to escape to a place

Where my body feels numb

My thought vanishes

My spirit is free


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