FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: REMOTE

Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the word remote, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Microsoft Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on September 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: Remote will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, September 19th between 3 and 4:30 pm PST.

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Mike Turner

A Sailors Life

 

Across far oceans

Over distant horizon

I spread starched wings of white

 

Trade, spice, adventure

A lifetime of sail

Remote, fare tropical isles

 

Round the whole wide world

Circumnavigation

Riding foaming waveswhite crests

 

Till my voyage, complete

I come back to the sea

To find solace and rest

 

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[untitled haiku]

 

chips, salsa, cold beer

big-screen plasma with remote

man-cave nirvana

 

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Take Me

 

Take me to a place 

Ive never been before

Some far-off foreign country

A distant, remote shore

Take me off somewhere 

     where all the noise will cease

Take me to a place 

     where I may be restored

 

Take me to a place 

Thats near and yet so far

Some greasy-spoon old diner

A waterfront dive bar

Take me off somewhere 

     where I can find some peace

Take me to a place 

     beneath some shimmering star

 

Take me to a place 

Where Im safe out of the rain

Some sheltered, moated castle

A quiet country lane

Take me off somewhere 

     where I can find release

Take me to a place 

     where I may love again

 

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