FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: BITTER SWEET Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words bitter and/or sweet, 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 September 20th. 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: Bitter Sweet will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, September 21st between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Joan McNerney

How Sweet!


After bathing in bubble gum,

Mary Jane unties ribbon candy

from bags of chocolate kisses.

                                        

Skies are colored by yellow,

pink & blue cotton candy clouds.


Marshmallow chicks hide

behind spearmint leaves. 


Jellybeans sprout along

fields of candy corn.


Caramel apples, lemon drops,

orange slices are stacked for sale

at Lolly Pop's juicy fruit shop.


Watch out as sour gummy

worms wiggle underfoot!


While climbing big rock candy 

mountain, she has a sugar high.


Mary Jane’s so thirsty now & sips

root beer barrels at Snickers Bar.


Black licorice fills this night

with confectionery dreams

& one big banana moon pie.


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