FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SHOOTING STARS Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Shooting Stars are invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, December 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Saturday, December 21, 2024

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shooting star eyelashes


It was barely morning 

The black crow on 

The black tightrope

Telephone Line

Knew she had 

Decided


She delighted in 

Not telling 

You


Skipping through the 

Dirty kitchen floor

A tisket-a-tasket

Slipping on wounded 

Carnage


Out of habit she gave

You one more chance

An offering for the Holiday a

Gift


A chance to eat

What’s in the 

Red & green basket

Extracted by mounting

Courage


A sinner should be

Willing to eat away

All their 

Sins


Problem Is 

He liked the taste

Much too much

Dripping off his

Lip


She recognized the

Wolf long before the

Little Red Hooded 

Girl Did

She has no memory of

When it became too

Late


She dug into the  

Bottom of her

Pink ballerina

Jewelry box

Finding and putting on

Her shooting -star 

Eyelashes


Moonlit feathers strung

Together forming a boa fluttering

Away


No glass slippers in her bag

High heels never quite fit

She always took them off to

Dance


Now she will dance barefooted

Like the witches in the forest

Freely


Maybe even with you

What a thrill to flirt 

Again


She smashes the 

Glass slippers

Shattering mosaic 

Memories


Broken color ornaments

Reflecting barely 

Morning light

Shattering sharp pieces

On her feet

And her heart

Breaks

Free


Bleeding vampires

Lick their lips

So very delicately

She smiles 

Deliciously


Knowing it is

Not the first

Wooden stake 

She will strike

Severing a shadow 

Soul


She roams in this

Poem

Knowing there are

No Happy Endings

Yet she feels so

Happy with this 

Ending


She turns 

The broken 

Gold door

Knob

Happy she

Didn’t

Put up the 

Christmas Tree

Breathing in

And out

Joy


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