FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: DEAD DAYS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words dead and/or day, 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 November 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: Dead Days will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, November 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Mark Heathcote

Hoping Against Hope


We're accustomed to seeing crustaceans

crabs and lifeless jellyfish along these shores

starfish, excite our alliterations

but any man bereft fleeing bloody wars.


Scooping up a dead child or two, a wife

yes, images of this kind haunt our psyche

thinking of it makes us re-evaluate life

every night, let's be thankful to God Almighty.


It wasn't our child on that shoreline washed

hoping for a place to find a sanctuary 

in a small rowboat hoping, against hope (lost)  

prayers might be answered just temporarily.


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