FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: PANTOUM FESTIVAL Send up to three pantoums on any subject, 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 December 15th. 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: Pantoum Festival will be published online and will be invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, December 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, December 15, 2023

Lori Wall-Holloway

Time to Make Room

 

Troubles busy my poor distracted heart   

fills my mind with needless clutter             

It becomes hard to focus once apart

as emotions fight each other

 

Fills my mind with needless clutter

leaving no room for fresh godly wisdom

as emotions fight each other

I rapidly battle not to succumb

 

Leaving no room for fresh godly wisdom

I work to purge and clear out stuff

I rapidly battle not to succumb

Declaring no more! It’s enough!

 

I work to purge and clear out stuff

Creating ample space for a new start

Declaring no more! It’s enough!

Troubles busy my poor distracted heart 




Wound of the Heart so Deep

(For our cat, Gizmo)

 

Wound of the heart so deep 

because we had to let you go

My sorrow welcomes sleep 

despite the tears that freely flow 

 

Because we had to let you go

our life with you seems brief 

despite the tears that freely flow 

I navigate my grief

 

Our life with you seems brief 

Although, a part of us for years

I navigate my grief

With losing Gizmo, who was dear

 

Although, a part of us for years 

I must let myself weep 

with losing Gizmo, who was dear

Wound of the heart so deep

 

 

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