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.

Saturday, August 19, 2023

R A Ruadh

Parting is …


We trusted land and sky at the start
To care for us and to each our part

But humankind did mess with that
And bit by bit our ways did part

Poison here and killing there
Relationships were torn apart

Connections are no longer taught
No child learns how they are a part

Of earth and air and water too
No longer can they link each part

Their only song is wail and woe
While understanding plays no part

Hot sun is now a rage burned rose
Death’s drama reads the final part
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