FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: POINT UP Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words point and/or up, 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 April 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: Point Up will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, April 19th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Alex S Johnson

Manning the Beacon with Ellyn (Maybe)


Who's driving?

oh, I don't know


Traffic's not what

it used to be


Remember when...

Yup.


I sure do.


Who's driving?

I'll try but honestly 


It's hard...


Hey, check out this cool 

beacon


It points towards the

true 

North

Stars and 

Stripes 


Forging anti-swords forever


That's what's up


That's what's groovy


It points down 


Like an ocean of clocks 

like a river of stars 

like a soup kettle full of


Dreams


Nietzsche was right

about the

eternal

Recurrence.


It points up

it 

points 

down


Where you can see

yourself in the 

dialectical mirror of

Georg

Wilhelm

Friedrich

Hegel


Moving not 

necessarily

in a

forward

progress from

thesis

antithesis

synthesis but


RATHER


From the 

storm center of

dialectic and

negative

dialectic


Where the ocean for the waves

where the trees for the forest

where the droplets for the 

rain


Where the mist for the gas


Where we've run out of 

gas


Stranded on the shoulder of an

enormous 


Boulder


High as a kite in 

the fountains of


Outer

Space


Looking down...


At all the

tiny

people...


It's a small beacon 

right now


But we've scaling it towards

a roaring 


Bonfire


to keep us all warm


in the dark winter of the

soul's


Discontent...


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