FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: HISTORIC LANDMARKS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words historic and/or landmark, 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 May 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: Historic Landmarks will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, May 18th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Petrouchka Alexieva

On the Globus There’s a Landmark

 

On the globus, there’s a landmark

that I treasure for life.

It’s name is engraved on my heart.

Its name is whispered

by the blood in my veins.

 

I keep there a chest full of treasures

– the memories of childhood,

all of the secrets of my youth,

my mother’s lullabies

and every father’s advice.

 

It has the scent of blossoming cherry

and China rose. The mirror remembers

my prompt, my wedding,

the days when my two kids were born.

The other places are just dots

on the map that I pass by in this life.


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