FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: POINTS AND LINES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words point and/or line, 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 17th. 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: Points and Lines will be published online and will be invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, November 18th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Veronica Jauregui

I met you for the first time on a rainy night

I had fear cautiousness of conditions 

I was conditioned before you 

You freed me in every way 

Plucked the bird out of the cage 

The bird flies freer unlimited 

Though we grow tired 

Time tires us life tires us 

Resilience comes surviving the night 

If we make it to tomorrow

We will still fight for freedom 

Freedom in every way 

There are cages we build others built for us 

Others set up to make others keep us down 

Some of our own will be made to stop us 

By their ego or mind games  

see it clear 

Freedom is free 

There is no violence to be conquered 

It just must end 

The tears fall and keep falling 

From the sky to our eyes 

Guns running out of bullets 

Money stopping its flow 

We know how to end this

We know how it ends

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