FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SCHOOL SHOES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words school and/or shoe, 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 August 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: School Shoes will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, August 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Monday, August 12, 2024

Radomir Vojtech Luza

Empty Cups


On the floor

Next to my bed

Looking at them

God is dead


No orange juice

No rhyme

No whiskey

No time


My life is a shallow river

Red, bled and misled

Who am I?

Where am I going?


Beautiful symphony has given way to

A grotesque opera

Young butterfly

A feeble hen


Aged bodies

All in a row

Nimbly dancing with the crow

Spending the day

Staring at faded gray


Nothing between them

And the end

Except a hollow bend

Where there once was a friend

Now only school shoes that do not trend




Blue Rain


A mere stain on the windowpane

Just isn't the same

Causing this much pain

In the margarine lane


Oh, maker above

Please send love

So, we know we are not stone

But skin and bone

On an island alone


Blue rain

Driving me insane

Like a fountain in the

Courtyard of the lame


Turquoise tongue

Sleeping young

Like a shower run

When life has lost its fun


Please oh, great orb

Wonder not about the end

But the sweet beginning

And how it rusted

Into being


Eating faces

Without places

Time braces for plastic gazes

Blue rain

Pockmarked bane


On a Gibraltar of gain

Dreaming of school

Like an old fool

On a metro train


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