FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SKY KEY Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words sky and/or key, 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 March 14th. 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: Sky Key will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Michelle Smith

A key opens a jewelry box

A window of winter chill air

A door of my childhood family home 

A symbol of a broken hearted memory of 

the last conversation with my dad on the telephone.


A key locks my journaled diaries

decades of a lifetime 5 x 6 or 8 x 10

A treasure chest of family photos 

A box of petals, potpourri, and grandma's ring

August birthstone peridot.


A key safely stores my prescription meds

papers, poetry, paintings, and prose

heart shapes, seashells, in a glass square case

A key for my safe and safe deposit box

favorite flowers from my romantic man:

sunflowers and June's birth flower 

the fragrant and fulfilling rose.


Keepsakes are the key, the treasure 

chest of my ruling heart.

"I've never seen a U haul following a hearse."

Keys do not belong to me, once my soul and body from this earth will depart.

Keepsakes remain hopefully to my loved ones 

instead of Goodwill or Facebook Marketplace Mart.


A key 





"Cali Skies"


It bloomed

&

blossomed

from angels wings to petals.

A rose,

A lily,

A sunflower view.

How

bountiful 

&

beautiful 

Are these Cali Skies?

I praise the Lord for the sight 

before my very eyes

I see orange pink cream arms

extended from above 

My loved ones

Are giving me a heavenly hug

"California Dreaming, on such a winters day."

Cali Skies

I am grateful for your 

blossom

&

bloom

always.


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