FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: HEART FLAMES Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Heart Flames are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, February 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, February 14, 2025

Mark A. Fisher

aflame


the western sky all tinged in flame, while bright

dying embers flicker in the night sky

as crystal stars dance in some sacred rite

with fluttering white moths drawn in to die


upon pyres of orange dressed pretty

whispering seductive dark promises

of prayers to be answered right and quickly

just merely be the flame’s accomplices


yet the flames compassion drifts as ashes

down upon the moths this fate to abide

the free skies taken away in batches

never once realizing the flame had lied


until the final moth wing cinders fall

and the flame exalted now owns it all


 


fifteenth prime


heart-

lessness

factory

churns out outrage

♥♥♥♥♥

manufactured from

insecurity and pain

making insanity sane

morality wrong

♥♥♥♥♥

and the country’s

ideals dust

within

emp-

ty prom-

ises of

being great again

♥♥♥♥♥

just never ever

intended for everyone

only for those with the funds

ignoring ashes

♥♥♥♥♥

of the long arc

bending in

tangled

knots

twisted

past breaking

waiting for time

♥♥♥♥♥

to heal ugly wounds

and historians to play

doctor once again and stay

to vaccinate us

♥♥♥♥♥

countering the

virus still

plaguing

us


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