Heading art by Robert Fleming

Heading art by Robert Fleming /// Send up to three ghazals 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 August 18th. 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: Ghazal Train will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, August 19th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Monday, August 14, 2023

Joe Grieco

Slow Huzzah Ghazal

 

Resistance and rebellion don’t excite? Are you okay?

You maybe lost your belly for the fight. Are you okay?

 

Who dialed back the thumping on your militant subwoofer?

What tranquilizer beat your appetite? Are you okay?

 

You used to jump at the chance to mix it up in the street.

An activist lit. Alive dynamite. Are you okay?

 

This isn’t news to us: there are no happy activists.

But happiness is not the hoplight’s right. Are you okay?

 

Just stay in bed. You’re in no shape to break the barricades.

I’ll take your place when bonfires blow tonight. Are you okay?


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